Bahrain has no personal income tax but 10% VAT since 2022. BBK statements are the primary evidence for NBR substantiation. Convert your bilingual PDF to Excel for clean tax workpapers — done in seconds.
Convert your BBK statementBahrain has no personal income tax and no general corporate income tax, but it does have 10% VAT (doubled from 5% in January 2022). The National Bureau for Revenue (NBR) expects VAT-registered businesses to substantiate output and input VAT with bank-evidenced transaction records. BBK is one of the largest retail and SME banks in the country, so its statements are central to most Bahraini VAT files.
BBK statements are also used for cross-border tax filings. Bahraini residents working with subsidiaries in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Kuwait often need bank-evidenced records of inbound dividends and salary credits for the tax authority in the receiving jurisdiction. The 3-decimal BHD precision and SWIFT BIC tags in the BBK statement make the converted Excel reliable cross-border evidence.
For Bahrain 10% VAT: BBK statements prove inbound revenue receipts (output VAT base) and outbound supplier payments (input VAT credit base). The bilingual statement preserves the Arabic merchant narrative alongside the English transaction code, so an NBR query about a specific line can be answered without reopening the original PDF.
For cross-border filings: BBK is widely used as the GCC headquarters bank for small regional operations. The converted CSV preserves SWIFT references for inbound dividends from subsidiaries and outbound supplier payments to foreign vendors, which the foreign tax authority will want to see in their own format.
Pull every credit and debit with full 3-decimal BHD precision, preserve BENEFIT references on domestic transfers and SWIFT BICs on cross-border, and keep the bilingual description column intact for NBR substantiation.
Bilingual Arabic-English A4 PDF. Columns: value date, description, debit, credit, BHD balance (3 decimal places per Central Bank of Bahrain standards). Account header: IBAN, account type, branch, statement generation date. BENEFIT network references for domestic transfers; SWIFT for cross-border.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| BENEFIT تحويل | BENEFIT network transfer (Bahrain) |
| راتب | Salary credit (WPS) |
| دفع فاتورة | Bill payment |
| شيك | Cheque clearing |
| تحويل خارجي | Outward international transfer |
Rules in Bahrain differ — see our country guide
Pull the statement covering your VAT or tax period
From BBK iBank, request the statement for the full filing period. Bahrain VAT returns are quarterly for most businesses, monthly for the largest. Match the statement period to your filing cycle.
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The bilingual PDF goes in as-is. BHD's three decimal places stay intact, BENEFIT references on domestic transfers are preserved, and SWIFT BICs on cross-border wires are kept in the description column.
Categorise revenue, expense, and VAT-relevant lines
Filter by Category to isolate inbound revenue, supplier outflows, bank charges, and any VAT remittance lines if you have already paid VAT in the period.
Export and reconcile against your VAT return
Download as Excel or CSV. Sum credits for revenue, outflows for input-VAT-eligible expenses. The 3-decimal BHD totals reconcile against the VAT return to the fils.
Common challenges
Does the export keep BHD to three decimal places?
Yes. 1.250 stays 1.250. This precision is essential when reconciling against NBR filings or supplier invoices in Bahrain, where the smallest unit is the fils (1/1000 of a BHD).
How does Kashfbank handle the bilingual BBK statement layout?
BBK prints Arabic and English on most rows. Kashfbank reads both and preserves the bilingual description column in the export. NBR substantiation can be done in either language without reopening the original PDF.
I have BENEFIT and SWIFT transactions on the same statement. Are they tagged differently?
Yes. BENEFIT references identify domestic transfers within Bahrain's local rail. SWIFT BICs identify cross-border entries with the sender's bank country. The export tags each separately so domestic and cross-border revenue can be summed independently.
When did Bahrain double its VAT rate and how does that affect statements?
Bahrain raised VAT from 5% to 10% in January 2022. Pre-2022 and post-2022 transactions both appear in the export with their original dates. Your VAT advisor uses the date column to apply the correct rate. Kashfbank does not annotate VAT status on individual rows — that requires the merchant invoice.
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Regulator: Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB)
Fiscal year: Jan 1 – Dec 31
Full country guide →Statement language: Arabic / English