{"id":83659,"date":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/02\/21\/expat-fee-waiver-for-some-small-firms-extended-for-three-years\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"expat-fee-waiver-for-some-small-firms-extended-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/02\/21\/expat-fee-waiver-for-some-small-firms-extended-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Expat fee waiver for some small firms extended for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Cabinet extended yesterday for three years an exemption on monthly expat fees for <\/strong><strong>\u201csmall\u201d firms <\/strong><strong>with nine or fewer employees<\/strong>, state news agency <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/N2050732\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">SPA<\/a> reported yesterday. The set headcount includes the business\u2019s owner, it said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>How the exemption works: <\/strong>The Human Resources and Social Development Ministry <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrsd.gov.sa\/media-center\/news\/200220241\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">clarified<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrsd.gov.sa\/media-center\/news\/200220241\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the conditions<\/a> for the exemptions: a waiver of fees on two expat workers if its owner is a full-timer and has his business registered with the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), a waiver of fees on four expat workers if same conditions were met and if the company had at least one Saudi employees among its staff. The exemption aims to support small businesses and ensure their continuity in the labor market, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Expat levy? <\/strong>The monthly fees have been imposed since 2018 to stimulate a local job creation drive as part of the Kingdom\u2019s diversification plan away from oil. However, the gradually increasing fees have come under fire from businesses on grounds that they drive operating expenses up. Since then, the government has sought measures to help businesses with the cost, including a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-24\/saudi-arabia-to-waive-expat-fees-for-industrial-companies\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">waiver on fees on expat workers<\/a> in the industrial sector for five years and an exemption for businesses with a smaller headcount. The imposed fees have led to the mass exit of 1.05 mn foreign workers from the local employment market until 2021, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saudigazette.com.sa\/article\/616000\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">government data by Okaz<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Also approved yesterday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandating the Foreign Minister to sign a MoU to set up he <strong>Saudi-Brazil<\/strong> Coordination Council;<\/li>\n<li>Mandating the Finance Minister to sign a draft agreement with <strong>Iceland<\/strong> for the avoidance of double taxation in regards to income tax and prevention of tax evasion;<\/li>\n<li>A cooperation agreement on crime prevention with <strong>Vietnam<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Two MoUs between the Saudi Data and AI Authority (<strong>SDAIA<\/strong>) and <strong>Slovenia<\/strong>-based International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) and Jo\u017eef Stefan Institute in the fields of AI research and development;<\/li>\n<li>An air transport services agreement with <strong>Portugal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monthly fees have been imposed since 2018 to stimulate a local job creation drive as part of the Kingdom\u2019s diversification plan away from oil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2598],"tags":[136,10,1177,685],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-83659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabinet-watch","tag-cabinet-watch","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-labor-relations","tag-saudization","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"7e280267-b2c4-4010-942b-bf11fb71325c","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/2\/2001.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Expat fee waiver for some small firms extended for three years","related_issue":[83643],"teaser":"The monthly fees have been imposed since 2018 to stimulate a local job creation drive as part of the Kingdom\u2019s diversification plan away from oil","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/2\/.da07e057-60d3-4d65-bafa-33a21b3e44a0.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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