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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

Catalog updated 2026-10-12. Selected source documents, reviewed around elections, budgets and pension-rule changes.

Election watch

No national parliamentary election between competing governing parties is listed.

Saudi Arabia’s Basic Law establishes a monarchy; the party-budget election comparison does not apply in the same way.

Election information last checked 2026-09-17. The FY 2026 budget and preliminary FY 2027 pre-budget statement are available; no opposition-party budget is represented.

Government and alternative plans

Source documents for reference. A party's costing is its own estimate unless identified as independent. Different years, definitions and government levels are not directly comparable. These documents do not automatically change the simulator.

Government budget statement · FY 2026

Budget Statement 2026 ↗

Saudi Ministry of Finance

Official budget statement and associated material. Budget projections and actual quarterly results are different measures.

Last checked 2026-09-17

Government fiscal collection · Multiple fiscal years

Budget statements and performance reports ↗

Saudi Ministry of Finance

Includes the pre-budget statement, final budget statement and quarterly performance reports.

Last checked 2026-09-17

Government pre-budget statement — preliminary · FY 2027; projections through FY 2029

Pre-Budget Statement | FY 2027 ↗

Saudi Ministry of Finance · Saudi Arabia — national · Published 2026-09-30

The preliminary statement estimates FY 2027 revenue of SAR 1,202 billion, expenditure of SAR 1,392 billion and a deficit of about 3.6% of GDP. It projects revenue of SAR 1,351 billion and expenditure of SAR 1,544 billion by FY 2029, while continuing development and strategic-priority spending and domestic/international borrowing. The document says the final budget is approved in the fourth quarter and these figures may change; this is not the final FY 2027 budget.

PDF pp. 5–8, Introduction and Executive Summary; pp. 20–24, fiscal projections for revenues, expenditure and financing

Last checked 2026-10-01 · content reviewed

Pension eligibility and payments

Selected scheme verified

New-law social-insurance pension and transition

Royal Decree M/273, 2 July 2024; official translation

Eligibility age: 65 new-law cohort; legacy transitions differ
Payment basis: New law: earnings × service formula

The new law excludes specified existing contributors and pensioners, while transitional schedules affect certain legacy contributors. Article 16 sets new-law age 65; the accompanying resolution specifies 180 contribution months. Article 17 applies 2.25% of average contributory pay per service year, capped at 100%, with conditional minimums and early-retirement reductions. This is not one rule for every Saudi resident. The Arabic law governs.

Social Insurance Law: official translation ↗
Decree clauses Second–Fifth; resolution Third(5); Articles 16–17

Sources checked 2026-09-18. Selected scheme coverage; other schemes and exceptions may apply.

Reference information only. These rules and payments do not change the simulator’s fiscal model or calculate an individual pension entitlement.

Tax starting points

Income tax: No tax on employment income
Corporation tax: 20% non-Saudi share; Zakat differs
VAT / sales tax: 15% VAT
Tariffs: Rates depend on the product, origin and trade agreement.

Employment income is not subject to individual income tax. Business/non-employment income has separate rules. The general 20% corporation rate covers non-Saudi/non-GCC ownership shares; Saudi/GCC shares generally fall under Zakat, assessed on a different base. Hydrocarbon rates differ.

Tax sources checked 2026-09-17. These are headline references; marginal rates apply to income bands, not every unit of income. Payroll contributions and allowances are not included in this compact comparison.

Income tax source · Corporation tax source · WTO tariff schedules

Pension schedules still marked “Not yet verified” are missing verified comparison data, not countries without pensions. Pension entitlements depend on contributions, age, residence and scheme.

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