In an increasingly connected world, managing tax across borders requires more than technical expertise, it demands strategic foresight, commercial awareness, and a deep understanding of local rules. KPMG in Saudi Arabia helps multinational and Saudi-based businesses navigate this evolving tax landscape with clarity, ensuring compliance while unlocking opportunities for growth.
How KPMG can help
We help clients plan, manage, and execute international tax strategies that align with their business goals and the changing global tax environment. Whether you are expanding abroad, investing into the Kingdom, restructuring your group, or responding to regulatory change, we provide practical, commercially focused advice that drives value.
Our international tax specialists advise on:
- Cross-border structuring: Designing efficient investment and operating structures that optimize returns and minimize risk.
- Tax treaty planning: Leveraging Saudi Arabia’s and your home country’s treaty networks to manage withholding taxes and prevent double taxation.
- BEPS 2.0 and global minimum tax: Helping clients understand and respond to OECD Pillar Two and related developments in Saudi Arabia and globally.
- Cash repatriation and financing: Structuring debt, equity, and hybrid instruments to ensure efficient funding and profit repatriation across jurisdictions.
- Tax policy and advisory: Advising on Zakat and corporate income tax, foreign ownership rules, permanent establishment risk, and cross-border documentation requirements.
Our approach
Strategic and forward-looking
We go beyond compliance to offer you a more strategic perspective on tax. Our advice anticipates how changes in global tax policy, from the OECD, G20, and local authorities, will affect your operations and future-proof your structure. We take a long-term view so your business is positioned for sustainable success in a shifting tax landscape.
Global network, local delivery
As part of KPMG’s international network, we draw on tax professionals in more than 140 countries. This means wherever your business operates—whether structuring through the GCC, Europe, Asia, or North America—you benefit from a consistent approach and coordinated advice. Locally, our team in Saudi Arabia brings first-hand experience with Saudi rules and regulations, bridging global strategy with practical local implementation.
Aligned with your business
Our approach is collaborative. We work closely with your finance, legal, and commercial teams to design tax strategies that align with your business objectives. We bring together specialists in transfer pricing, corporate structuring, indirect tax, and policy to provide one integrated solution that works in practice.
