Three questions a Saudi financial institution answers under the Common Reporting Standard, as ZATCA’s CRS Guidance Notes state them. What an entity is: a Custodial Institution at 20% or more of income from holding assets for others, an Investment Entity at 50% or more, a Specified Insurance Company above 50% — each operator different and each measured from the figures — or an Active NFE by one of eight limbs, or a Passive NFE whose Controlling Persons are reported; a Managed Investment Entity outside a Participating Jurisdiction is looked through. Which pre-existing accounts are reviewed: an individual’s linked accounts, joint balances in full and negatives as nil, High Value above US$1,000,000 with a Relationship Manager’s knowledge counted; an entity’s above the US$250,000 exemption, where the guidance’s own example gives the FATCA US$1,000,000 instead. And the penalties: SAR 500 a day to SAR 15,000 for a late report, SAR 5,000 or 3,000 per violation. And a correction message checked before upload, CRS or FATCA: the message indicator, the resent Reporting FI, every CorrDocRefID traced to the latest record rather than one a later correction replaced, new DocRefIDs unique, uncorrected accounts left out, the original’s channel, and FATCA’s rule that corrected data answers an IRS request only.
- Computed by
- classifyKSACRSEntity, assessKSACRSPreexistingAccountReview, computeKSACRSReportingPenalty and validateKSAAEOICorrection via computeKSACRSDueDiligence through /api/actions/run.
- You receive
- The classification with every Financial Institution and Active NFE test as met, not met or unestablished and the measured share behind each; or the review tier with each account aggregated and why, the procedures, the deadline and how Controlling Persons are established; or the penalty lines and total.
- Recorded
- Each test cites its section of the Guidance Notes and prints the ratio against its operator; each aggregated account says which rule brought it in; the two places the guidance contradicts itself are named where they bite.
- Refuses to
- REFUSES an unstated question, a stated answer the figures contradict, a figure without its denominator, and an account list that does not contain the account under review. Never classifies an entity as an NFE while any Financial Institution test is unestablished. Applies §8.2’s US$250,000 and names §5.12.2 Example 3’s US$1,000,000; measures each account holder on its own where §5.12.4 Example 2 adds two entities together. The penalty amounts rest on the guidance’s statement of the Special Regulations, whose text is not in hand.