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 Approves the Real Estate Tax system as 5% on all operations
Zakat, Taxes and Customs authority approves the real estate tax system which applies a tax of 5% on all real estate actions, without any exception, whether for the property type, state or use at the time of action taken.
The new system is one of the state efforts to regulate the real estate market, reinforce transparency and tax compliance, as it includes all real estate operations, including sales and purchases, grants and exchanges, etc., regardless the property location or the purpose of its use.
The authority has presented the executive regulations draft for the system through “istitlaa website” to enable the citizens and the professionals give their points of view and observations. The draft includes a detailed explanation of the concepts related to the real estate tax, scope of its application, and the methods of its payment, in addition to the exceptions and the regulations of those exceptions.
The draft also includes the regulations related to repaying the tax paid by mistake or in an increase. The authority is given the control on reassessing the tax when there are regulatory justifications.
The pilot period was completed on the 15th March, 2025, according to the authority efforts to reinforce the community participation and raising the competence of the KSA tax regulations applicability.
Ministry of Justice Studies Regulating the Procedures for Preventing Dealing with the Respondent in the Direct Enforcement Claims
Currently, the ministry of justice studies the suggested amendments to the executive regulations of the enforceability rues, that aim at regulating the procedures that prevent governmental authorities and financial facilities to deal with the respondent, that is in the context of developing the enforcement justice.
Through that amendment, the ministry seeks to reinforce protective justice, reinforce contracts enforceability, improve business environment and competition in the KSA, in addition to achieving balance between the rights of the enforcer and the respondent, and the community interests.
The suggested amendments include terminating the court department authority to prevent governmental authorities and financial facilities to deal with the respondents in a case of objecting direct enforcement, opposite being limited to “travel objection” as a tool to ensure enforcement, in a case of amendment approval. The amendments also include preventing dealing objection with the representatives of legal identities who cause hinders to the enforcement.
For the claims related to the guardianship, the amendments include a suggested article that enable the court department to take the direct enforcement actions against a parent or others in a case of objecting the enforcement of guardianship sentence or in a case of hiding the minor or deceiving, as the harder actions shall be terminated, including imprisonment or preventing financial and governmental dealing, when the amendment is approved.
Those steps agree with the ministry of justice objectives to develop the enforceability justice, and they include:
Raising the competence of enforceability justice.
Reinforcing protective justice.
Improving contracts enforceability
Reinforcing the KSA competition and business environment
Achieving complete justice.
Acceleration of providing rights to their holders
Considering the basic rights of the respondent.
Ministry of Interior: A fine up to 100 thousand riyals imposed on the companies that delay reporting delayed departure of pilgrims
Ministry of Interior asserts the compliance of pilgrims’ service companies and establishments with all regulations for pilgrim affairs in the KSA.
The ministry states in an official statements that it will apply financial fines up to 100 thousand riyals on any company or establishment that delays reporting the concerned authorities about the delayed departure of pilgrims after the regulatory residence date.
It states that the fines will be imposed separately on each violator, as fines will be doubled by the number of violating pilgrims. That is made according to the ministry efforts to limit the violations and to reinforce regulations in the sector of pilgrims.
Legal Information
From Bankruptcy System:
Halting Claims
Halting claims is one of the critical legal consequences of commencing bankruptcy actions:
“Commencing any of bankruptcy actions- for example: financial reorganization or dissolution- results in halting claims against debtors, and halting the enforceability of sentences and decrees issued against him”
That means in a case of commencing bankruptcy actions against the debtor (whether upon his demand or the demand of a creditor), no creditor shall claim a debtor to pay his debts at the court not claim enforceability through the period of the action, and shall not enforce the preceding sentences on his money.
In conclusion: that provides the debtor with the required protection to organize his financial position without any pressures from individual claims.
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