🇧🇭 Odoo for businesses in Bahrain.

Bahraini businesses charge 10% VAT and file returns with the National Bureau for Revenue (NBR), with mandatory registration once annual supplies pass BHD 37,500 and voluntary registration available above BHD 18,750. Payroll runs through the Social Insurance Organization (SIO), where the employer contribution for Bahraini staff rises to 18% from January 2026, and salaries must move through the Wage Protection System, with full enforcement from February 2026. We configure Odoo to that framework: the Bahraini chart of accounts, 10% VAT tax codes, NBR-ready return figures, and SIO social insurance calculated alongside payroll.

Bahrain has no general corporate income tax, though large multinational groups fall under a 15% Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax that has applied to fiscal years from January 2025. On e-invoicing, the NBR is building a central electronic invoicing platform and has signalled a phased rollout beginning with larger taxpayers, but as of 2026 no e-invoicing mandate is yet in force, so we keep Odoo invoicing clean, structured, and ready to connect once dates are confirmed.

Most Bahraini businesses we move to Odoo are leaving Tally, Sage 300, Focus, SAP Business One, or Oracle NetSuite: tools that fragment as bilingual invoicing, inventory, projects, and multi-entity reporting pile up. Odoo consolidates finance, operations, and Arabic plus English document delivery into one system instead of a stack of separate products and connectors.