Dataset of companies’ profitability, government debt, Financial Statements' Key Indicators and earnings in an emerging market: Developing a panel and time series database of value-added tax rate increase impacts

The dataset included with this article contains three files describing and defining the sample and variables for VAT impact, and Excel file 1 consists of all raw and filtered data for the variables for the panel data sample. Excel file 2 depicts time-series and cross-sectional data for nonfinancial firms listed on the Saudi market for the second and third quarters of 2019 and the third and fourth quarters of 2020. Excel file 3 presents the raw material of variables used in measuring the company's profitability of the panel data sample