Author
Faiz Hussain owns and runs Saudia Company Formation, the firm that sets up Saudi companies for founders who live outside the Kingdom. He is an FCMA and an ACCA-qualified accountant who has worked on tax and company formation for clients well beyond Saudi Arabia.
About Faiz
Faiz Hussain founded Saudia Company Formation and still owns it. The firm works from an office in Barkat Market, Lahore, and takes founders from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and further afield through the Saudi registrations, without them having to deal with Saudi ministries themselves. The company and its office are described on our about us page.
He is an FCMA (Fellow Cost and Management Accountant) and ACCA-qualified, and his experience is in taxation and company formation for clients in several countries. Saudia Company Formation is an initiative of Fintax Support Limited, the accounting and tax consultancy he founded.
That background shapes how the desk he runs works. A Saudi company is a tax registration as much as a legal entity, so ZATCA, VAT and the books are planned with the company structure, not after it. Two things come up on almost every file: most delays we see are document mistakes, and late VAT registration is the penalty we see most. The roles that work with him, from ACCA-qualified accountants to our own employee in Saudi Arabia, are listed on our team page.
Four facts about Faiz Hussain that you can check on this site and on Google.
Checked on 16 October 2026 against our Google Business Profile, which is linked in the qualifications section below.
Expertise
Faiz Hussain's work at Saudia Company Formation falls into three areas: the Saudi registrations that create and activate a company, the tax and accounting that follow, and the home-country rules a founder meets before money or documents leave.
A foreign-owned company starts with investment registration at MISA, which replaced MISA licensing in February 2025. Next come the articles and the Commercial Registration (Sijil Tijari), which since 3 April 2025 no longer expires and is confirmed every 12 months instead, followed by ZATCA and GOSI.
MISA registration →VAT registration becomes mandatory once taxable sales pass SAR 375,000 a year, and zakat or income tax returns follow every year end. Because late VAT registration is the penalty we see most, sales are tracked against that threshold from the first invoice, and the books are kept ready for the statutory audit.
ZATCA and VAT registration →Home rules come first: the State Bank of Pakistan for a company from Pakistan, the Overseas Investment rules for a company from India, and Bangladesh Bank for a company from Bangladesh. On structure, we often recommend an LLC instead of a branch.
Foreign-owned LLC formation →Qualifications
Every claim on this page about Faiz Hussain can be checked with the body that holds the record: ACCA's public register of members for his qualification, and our Google Business Profile for the 2 client reviews that name him.
Ask for his ACCA details on your free consultation and check them on ACCA's own register. We do not list memberships we cannot show you, and we last checked the records linked here on 16 October 2026. The way each role on a file is qualified, and how to check it, is set out on our team page.
Companies
Faiz Hussain founded and runs Saudia Company Formation, which sets up Saudi companies for founders and businesses based outside the Kingdom, with one person handling each file from the first call to handover.
Sets up and activates Saudi companies for founders who live outside the Kingdom. The office is Office #06, 2nd floor, Rafi Group Central Plaza, Barkat Market, Lahore, with virtual desks for India, Bangladesh, the GCC, the UK, Europe and the USA.
About the company →On this website
Faiz Hussain owns Saudia Company Formation and is responsible for what this website says. He writes and reviews its guides, signs off the fact checks behind the service pages, and decides how each page is organised so founders can find the step they need.
He founded the firm as an initiative of Fintax Support Limited, sets the fixed-fee terms and the way client files are run, and answers for the work done in the company's name.
He writes the long guides on this site and reviews the service and country pages against the official sources listed on each one, following our editorial policy.
He keeps the pages current when rules change, links each service to the step before and after it, and makes sure every claim points to the authority that sets the rule.
Articles by Faiz
Faiz Hussain is the author of two guides on our blog, one for Pakistani founders and one for companies that want to supply NEOM. Both were published on 14 October 2026 and show the date their facts were last checked.
The State Bank of Pakistan's rules on the way out and MISA's and the Ministry of Commerce's on the way in, in the order a file moves, with the dates from two of our files: 25 and 114 days from MISA to CR.
Read the Pakistan guide → Market guideWho still buys at NEOM after the 2026 cutbacks, how supplier registration works, the Saudi registrations you need before you can deliver, and the risks to price in.
Read the NEOM guide →How his guides are checked
The guides Faiz Hussain writes follow our editorial policy: each rule rests on the law or the regulator's own guide, specialist points go to the role qualified to check them, and each guide shows the date its facts were last checked.
Tax points are checked against ZATCA's guidelines by our ACCA-qualified accountants. Legal points go to our external Saudi legal partner, a lawyer licensed in Saudi Arabia. The Pakistan guide, for example, had every rule rechecked against the State Bank of Pakistan, MISA and MOFA on 16 October 2026. The full rules, including how to report a mistake, are in our editorial policy.
Our editorial policy rules out five things on every page, including his.
Client reviews
Two clients name Faiz Hussain in their Google reviews of Saudia Company Formation. Both reviews are shown below word for word, spelling included, as they appear on our Google Business Profile.
I was looking for someone who can not only help me through setting up my beauty shop in Saudi Arabia but also walk me through the process. Luckily I met Faiz and the things became easier and easier. I got my company in 47 days, before the promised date.
Very good experiance, very professional team. Specially Mr. Faiz, as being very informative and supportive during the whole process. Thank you All!
Tell us what the Saudi company will do and where you are based. We reply within one working day, the free consultation takes 20 to 30 minutes, and one person handles your file from the first call to handover. Our seven-step process shows what happens after that call.
