The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
Zakat, Taxes and Customs Authority Extended the Initiative for Fines Termination and Discharging Tax Payers from Financial Sanctions
Zakat, Taxes and Customs Authority extends the initiative for terminating fines and discharging tax payers who are governed by all categories of taxes from the financial sanctions for additional six months, until 30th June, 2025.
The authority explained that the initiative includes discharging tax payers from the registration, payment or filing tax statement delay fines, in addition to the fines for correcting VAT statements, and violating the filed control related to electronic invoices and the general tax rules.
Conditions for benefiting from the initiative:
Registration of the tax payer at the tax system.
Filing non-filed tax statement, and disclosing all due taxes.
Paying the original tax debt, while it may be paid in installment according to defined conditions.
The authority stated that the initiative doesn’t include the fines related to the violation of tax evasion or the fines paid before the initiative commencement.
The authority invites the tax payers to read the initiative details at its website, that includes guidelines about categories of fines, steps of payments, and the conditions of discharging.
Also, it urges the tax payers to be benefited from the initiative during the stated period. For inquiring, you can contact the authority through the available channels at its official website.
Ministry of Tourism Obliges Hospitality Facilities to Attain a License for Activity Practice and Defines the Sanctions for Violators
Ministry of tourism asserts that all tourism hospitality facilities including private tourism hospitality facilities to have a license for practicing their activities according to the tourism system and regulations, to ensure the quality of services provided to tourists and visitors to all locations of the kingdom.
The ministry points out that it observed violations including presenting some hospitality services by some hospitality facilities or marketing them through international and national reservation websites without having the required license or permit. The ministry considers those practices a clear violation to the tourism systems and the quality standards.
Actions taken against violators:
All providers of travel and tourism services and the websites are notified to remove non-licensed or unauthorized facilities from their lists.
Matching the categorization of facilities to the approved categories by the ministry before the first of January, 2025.
Applying sanctions up to one million riyals, closing the facility, or both, in addition to defaming the violators.
Ministry of tourism launched the campaign “Our Guests are our Priority” to reinforce hospitality facilities undertaking with the standards of licensing and categorization, and to ensure their compliance with regulations. Also, it invites beneficiaries of hospitality services to report their notes and inquiries through the unified tourism center.
The ministry urges all operators of hospitality facilities to issue or to renew the required license before practicing the activity, asserting that the compliance with those requirements contributes in upgrading the quality of services and reinforcing the experiences of the kingdom visitors.
“Social Insurance”: The coverage of labor injuries includes going to the mosque or the restaurant at work hours
Public Authority for Social Insurance asserts that labor injuries which are covered by the contribution in the occupational risks branch, cover four sorts of accidents which the labor may expose to. Those accidents include:
Injury during performing work or caused by work.
Accidents which happen when the labor goes to perform a task assigned by the employer.
Injury of an occupational disease resulted from the work nature.
Accidents happen during transporting from the home to the workplace and vice versa, or from the workplace to the mosque or the restaurant, and vice versa.
Details of contribution and advantages:
The contribution at the occupational risks is binding to the employers for all employee, in 2% of the wage which is covered by the contribution. It is paid entirely by the employer. The branch provides two categories of advantages:
Cash compensation for injured people
The required medical treatment
Periods for reporting injuries:
Employees should report the employer about the injury or the accident in 7 days from its happening.
Employer should notify the social insurance in 3 days from his knowledge about the injury through his account at the insurance “business”
Categories of covered occupational risks:
Occupational risks include six main categories:
Chemical risks, such as emissions and gases.
Biological risks, such as viruses
Physical risks, such as noise
Mechanical risks such as injuries resulted from cutting or crushing
Electric risks, such as connections interfering
Fire risks resulted from wrong storing of flammable materials.
Occupational safety statistics:
The insurance authority states that observable developments are made in the field of occupational safety and health at the first half of 2024, compared to 2023, they include:
An increase of 19.5 in the number of active establishments
11.6% increase in the number of contributors.
9.5% decrease in the cases of disability and deaths
Supporting more than 32,500 establishment to improve standards of occupational safety and health.
Issuing more than 100,000 certificates of occupational safety and health to employers
The social insurance authority urges all employees and employers to comply with the regulations for reporting injuries and providing a secure work environment for all.
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