Breaking Change: BR-KSA-F-01 (Date format change)

Announcement: BR-KSA-F-01

Dear Community Members,

It is noticed that some taxpayers or solution providers are not complying with the requirement to capture dates in the XML in accordance with ISO 8601:2004, format YYYY-MM-DD (Gregorian calendar). This is resulting in incorrect mapping of invoices to corresponding Tax Period.

Therefore, the validation rule BR-KSA-F-01 will be enforced to reject invoices which are not in accordance with ISO 8601:2004, format YYYY-MM-DD (Gregorian calendar).

Effective Date for rejection of invoices with incorrect date format: 22 Jun, 2025**.**

This announcement intends to allow sufficient time to the taxpayers for correcting the date format and comply with E-Invoicing XML Implementation Standards.

Please review your systems and ensure compliance with the requirements.

For questions or clarifications, contact [sp_support@zatca.gov.sa].

Thank you for your cooperation.

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