Indirect Taxation (VAT, Customs, Excise Tax)
Managing indirect tax with confidence and control
Indirect taxes shape pricing, supply chains, systems and cash flow - often across multiple functions and jurisdictions. VAT, customs and excise tax rules continue to evolve across the Middle East, with sector and country specific rules and practices adding complexity. Without clear governance, small issues can quickly escalate into material risks.
We help you manage indirect tax with confidence. Combining deep regional expertise, established tax and customs authority relationships and digital capability, we bring structure to complexity - helping you reduce risk, optimise cash flow and build an indirect tax function that is compliant today and resilient for what’s next.
How we can help
Practical VAT advice where it matters
We advise on VAT treatment across daily operations, transactions and major business changes. We provide expert guidance on managing VAT obligations, risks, and opportunities including structuring transactions, cross-border supply rules, partial exemption methods which helps businesses optimise VAT efficiency and ensure legal compliance. Through targeted VAT health checks, we review transactions, contracts and processes to identify risks, recovery opportunities and improvement areas.
Consistent compliance and effective dispute management
We support you with VAT registrations, return preparation and review, refunds and ongoing reporting across the region. Where issues arise, we help manage tax authority queries, simulate audits and lead objections and appeals - aiming for efficient resolution while minimising financial, operational and reputational risk.
Optimising customs across the supply chain
We help you manage your customs and trade function as a strategic part of your supply chain. Our services cover advisory, trade compliance, duty saving programs, export controls, due diligence and customs function governance - supporting both compliance and optimisation in line with your footprint, sector and growth strategy.
Managing excise and sustainability-linked levies
We advise you on excise and environmental taxes across readiness, registration, compliance, optimisation and dispute resolution. Our support helps you assess product scope, pricing and supply-chain impacts, while designing controls that align tax obligations with health, ESG and sustainability objectives.
Digitising indirect tax for real-time insight
We help modernise your indirect tax function through technology and process design. From e-invoicing and e-filing to data, controls and governance, we assess current systems, design future-state operating models and implement tools that deliver real-time visibility, consistent compliance and lasting efficiency.
Clarity and confidence across KSA’s RETT landscape
We provide expert guidance on managing RETT obligations, risks, and opportunities - with a particular focus on identifying and substantiating applicable exemptions, assessing eligibility and documentation requirements, and supporting robust positions in a complex and evolving RETT regulatory landscape in KSA - helping businesses optimize RETT outcomes and ensure compliance with relevant laws and filing requirements.
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Chadi Abou Chakra
Partner, ME Indirect Tax Network lead, Tax & Legal Services, PwC Middle East
Carlos Garcia
Partner, ME Customs and International Trade lead, Tax & Legal Services, PwC Middle East
Hafez Yamin
Partner, Indirect Tax and Tax Technology Lead, Tax and Legal Services, PwC Middle East