Sales tax and VAT software for Wafeq

No, and Wafeq's own wording is precise about it: it generates your VAT return automatically in your tax authority format, ready for submission. The same line appears on its Saudi, UAE and Egypt pages. Submitting it is a separate step you take in the authority's own portal, and the Federal Tax Authority requires the return within 28 days of the end of the tax period. Wafeq's Saudi meta description describes the output as VAT reports rather than filings. What Wafeq does transmit is e-invoices, which is a different obligation from the periodic return.

Yes, and Phase 2. Its Saudi page leads with a banner reading Ready for ZATCA phase 2, describes the product as accounting and ZATCA-compliant e-invoicing software for Saudi businesses, and states that it automatically generates compliant e-invoices with a QR code to your customer. It also publishes a free scanner app that verifies both Phase 1 and Phase 2 invoices. One thing to check on your own account: ZATCA e-Invoicing Phase 2 is not part of the Starter plan. It starts on Plus. ZATCA itself notes that its list of solution providers is indicative, and that taxpayers may use any compliant provider whether or not it is listed.

Possibly US sales tax, and it starts before you have a US entity. Economic nexus thresholds sit at $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions in most states, 45 states levy a sales tax, and a foreign entity crosses those tests the same way a US one does. Pre-incorporation sales can also create affiliate nexus exposure that carries over to a US entity once it is formed. Nothing in Wafeq measures this, because nothing in Wafeq is watching a US state. Commenda measures your invoices against every state, registers you where you are exposed, files there, and runs a back-period exposure analysis before a US launch.

No, and the two should not be run together. Wafeq's UAE page groups them, offering accurate VAT and corporate tax returns, and says it automates corporate tax by embedding rules into your workflow. Corporate tax is a tax on your profit for a financial year. VAT is a transaction tax on each supply you make, filed on its own cycle. They use different data and different deadlines. Commenda handles corporate income tax filings and statutory reporting across 70+ countries with the UAE among them, and handles indirect tax as a separate product. Keeping them separate is the point, not a limitation.

Commenda registers you for UAE VAT and files the VAT 201 return. E-invoicing is a separate obligation with its own accreditation: the UAE model is a five-corner Decentralized Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange scheme: you, your accredited service provider, the buyer's provider, the buyer, and the Federal Tax Authority. Participating means using a UAE Accredited Service Provider, and Commenda is not on that list. Wafeq's own readiness page counts down to a Phase 1 deadline of 30 October 2026 and tells you to select an FTA-accredited ASP, audit your master data, and move to the PINT AE XML format. Take that advice from your e-invoicing provider. Commenda's job is the tax around it, in the countries listed above.

For cross-border B2C sales, one can. The EU One-Stop Shop lets you hold a VAT registration in a single member state and file from it for sales into all 27 countries plus Northern Ireland, instead of registering in each one. A Gulf company is a non-EU seller, and for non-EU sellers we usually recommend the Netherlands or Ireland as the OSS state. IOSS is the separate scheme for imported low-value goods sold to EU consumers, which is often the relevant one when you ship from the Gulf. Norway, Switzerland and Iceland sit outside OSS and need their own registrations, and the UK is separate again post-Brexit.