Al Reem Building Materials Trading LLC

What has to happen, and whose job it is.

Ordered by when to start, not by size. The first two items are the only ones with a long lead time, and neither of them requires you to have chosen any software or provider.

Your products and services carry no classification codes.

A classification code is a number that tells the tax authority what a thing is. Goods use an HS code, the same international tariff number customs already uses on your imports. Services use a service accounting code. The moment an invoice line declares which of the two it is, the matching code becomes compulsory, and a line that declares a type without its code is rejected outright rather than queried. Neither code appears in the Ministry's list of mandatory fields, so this only bites once you start populating item type — which is exactly the step your export has not taken yet, and the reason this looks optional until it suddenly is not.

4 customers have no tax number recorded.

An invoice travels to a customer by their ten‑digit tax identification number, the way an email travels by address. Without it there is nowhere to send the document. You can still invoice these customers using the official placeholder for a buyer who is not yet onboarded, but a paper or PDF invoice is then still required alongside it, which means running two processes for the same sale.

2 lines are charged no VAT, and the file does not say why.

Your export records a rate but not a reason. For a line at zero that matters, because zero‑rated, exempt and outside the scope of VAT look identical in a spreadsheet yet are reported to the authority differently, and an exempt supply needs a reason code as well. No software can work out which applies. Somebody who knows the supply has to say.

Smaller things we noticed in your file.

None of these block you. We correct them during setup; they are listed so nothing is a surprise later.

Every field still required, grouped by who supplies it.

What delay costs.

Penalties under Cabinet Decision 106 of 2025 run from your own mandatory start date, and the Authority can issue them without auditing you first. They are not all monthly: the charge below accrues for each month or part thereof, so a single day into a new month costs the full amount.

The five terms that matter.

HS code

The international tariff number for a physical product, already used by customs on every import. Six to eight digits. Every line of goods on an invoice must now carry one.

Service accounting code

The equivalent for services. It says what kind of work was sold, in the same way an HS code says what kind of thing was sold.

Tax number, TRN and TIN

Your TIN is a ten‑digit number and your routing address on the network is 0235 followed by it. The Ministry's own two documents describe its origin slightly differently: the Guidelines say the first ten digits of the TRN you hold for any tax type, the Mandatory Fields document says specifically your Corporate Tax TRN. If you hold both a VAT and a Corporate Tax registration, take it from the Corporate Tax one and confirm it with your provider at onboarding. Both you and your customer need one.

Accredited service provider

A company licensed by the Ministry of Finance to transmit invoices and report them. You must appoint one by 31 March 2027 and contract with them directly. There are over fifty to choose from.

Structured invoice

An invoice a computer can read field by field, rather than a PDF a person reads. From 1 July 2027 a PDF alone no longer counts as having issued an invoice.

How we read your spreadsheet.

Worked out from your column headings alone, with nothing configured. If any line below is wrong, the figures in this report shift, so it is worth thirty seconds.