SADAD Payment System

Preface

Ministry of Finance (Deputy Ministry for Revenues Affairs) has formulated the plans required to develop mechanisms of collecting the State's General Revenues in coordination with Agencies concerned with such a revenues collection. The Ministry has also made development plans for interconnecting Government Agencies with e-Systems in accordance with potentials available at those Agencies so as to accomplish speedy collection and compliance in addition to achieving control over Public Funds. Such mechanisms have come in various shapes achieving a set of affirmative results such as regulating and simplifying the process of payment and collection of Public Funds.
The Cabinet's resolution no. 172 dated 25/5/1428H within the fourth Clause has been issued to confirm that (Any Electronic Program used for collecting the State's Revenues at any Government Agency shall depend on SADAD payment System that has been executed by Ministry of Finance in coordination with Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. The resolution stressed that any program currently used for collecting Public Revenues shall be integrated with SADAD system.)

General Objectives:

• Helping citizens and expats to easily pay Government fees which raises the process of revenues collection.
• Enabling to collect money for seven days and 24 hours a day and not limiting it to work hours.
• Providing the service of e-Payment helping Agencies to provide up-to-date services.
• Converting traditional way of payment into an electronic one.
• Opening bank channels for all Government Agencies.
• Raising productivity thanks to increasing effective ways of collection.
• Accelerating process of settling invoices and services fees.
• Establishing an information base that can be much developed in the future.
• Reducing variable links into a unified one.

Accomplishments:

• A number of Government Agencies have been continuously linked with such a system as the following table indicates:

Invoiced no.		Invoiced no.
090	Ministry of Interior - Expats	020	Department of Zakat and Income Tax
091	Ministry of Interior – Driving Licenses	030	Customs Authority
092	Ministry of Interior – Saudi Passports	040	Real Estate Development Fund
093	Ministry of Interior – Traffic violations	045	Agricultural Development Fund
094	Ministry of Interior  - vehicles	058	Saudi Bank for Credit and Saving
095	Ministry of Interior – Family residence request	006	Medina Region Municipality
096	Ministry of Interior – civil status	010	Riyadh Municipality
013	Ministry of Trade and Industry	025	Eastern Region Municipality
015	Ministry of Water and Electricity	027	Holy Capital Municipality
050	Ministry of Labour	028	Jeddah  Municipality
051	Ministry of Information	061	Ha'il Region Municipality
075	Ministry of Transport	062	Tabouk Region Municipality
088	Ministry of Finance	064	Jazan Region Municipality
042	Communications and Information Technology Commission	070	Al-Quassim Region Municipality
049	Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization	084	Assir Region Municipality
057	Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities	087	Najran Region Municipality
089	Saudi Ports Authority	103	Al-Jouf Region Municipality
098	General Authority for Civil Aviation



• Building a portal including reports and inquiries at Ministry of Finance and General Auditing Bureau to follow up Agencies that have been linked Intermediate systems.
• Addressing obstacles that may hinder execution of project at those Agencies.
• Providing an e-Mechanism to ensure invoices conformity helping officials at Government Agencies to follow up track of invoices collected through the system, especially that such an e-Mechanism achieves a set of privileges as follows:
  • Achieving conformity with SADAD System concerning all amounts deposited within the collection account.
  • Easily Executing Conformity with branches subordinate to each Agency.
  • Saving time, effort and cost.
  • Limiting conformity process on the Agency and SADAD management instead of conformity with many banks.
  • Reducing paper-based procedures required for conformity.
  • Electronic daily conformity for SADAD processes through the System.

To contact with concerned persons
Ministry of Finance (Deputy Ministry for Revenues Affairs)
Tel: 4016032
Operator: 4050000 ext. 2069 – 1619
e-Mail address: sadad@mof.gov.sa