Bahrain

Reverse charged rates only apply to purchases.

The reverse charge is when you create input (purchase) VAT charge and an output (sales) VAT charge on a VAT free purchase transaction.

This way if you have say 20% exempt supplies, and you have imported a service from abroad for 100. You have this effect going on for the RCM transaction.

Tax item Tax w/o RCM Tax w/RCM
Taxable amounts
Output 0 100
Input 0 100
Tax amounts
Output 0 5
Input 0 -5
Apportiontment 20% of input VAT 0 1
Net tax liability on import 0 1

Note that apportionment only affects input VAT claimed.