Requires advance payments during the fiscal year and one or more post-year-end settlements under regulatory deadlines and procedures.
What should you do now?Maintain a separate advances and settlement calendar and link each payment to its estimate and proof.
What does the official Article provide?
The official source is Arabic. This English commentary is explanatory and is not presented as an official translation.
Requires advance payments during the fiscal year and one or more post-year-end settlements under regulatory deadlines and procedures.
This is a verified summary, not a substitute quotation. The complete official Arabic text is linked below and must be read with the Regulations and later decisions for a final decision.
Arabic text of Article 22
The official source is Arabic. The English content on this page is explanatory and is not presented as an official translation.
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سداد الضريبة
يجب على الكيان المشارك المُكلف بالإقرار سداد الضريبة المستحقة للسنة المالية إلى الجهاز، ويجب سداد الضريبة المستحقة للسنة المالية على دفعات معجلة خلال السنة المالية ودفعة واحدة أو أكثر بعد السنة المالية التي تُستحق فيها الضريبة، وذلك طِبْقاً للقواعد والضوابط والإجراءات والمواعيد التي تحدِّدها اللائحة.
Source: Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024, Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission (lloc.gov.bh).
What does the Article mean in plain language?
Payment is not a single return-date event; it is a cycle of advances followed by settlement, potentially using different bases. Under Reg. 70: an advance payment for each three-month period (none if the fiscal year is shorter than three months), due within 60 days after the period ends, using the prior-year or current-year method elected by the first due date and irrevocable for that year; the transition year's first advance is paid within the second advance's due period, and the balance within 15 months after year end.
The filing constituent entity, compliance and finance teams and Bahrain group members.
Maintain a separate advances and settlement calendar and link each payment to its estimate and proof.
Deferring all tax until the final return deadline.
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