• VAT Registration:

All businesses (Natural and Legal persons) with taxable supplies and import of goods and services that exceeded AED 375,000 over the previous 12 months or coming 30 days are required to register for VAT. Please note, registration needs to be done before hitting the mandatory registration threshold of AED 375,000 to avoid administrative penalty.

However, if someone wishes to get TRN (Tax Registration Number) earlier than this the minimum threshold is AED 187,500 (Voluntary Registration).

  • VAT Consultancy and VAT Return filing.

Our VAT Consultants ensure compliance with VAT Law UAE. We ensure mandatory quarterly VAT returns filing accurately. As per our knowledge, many businesses in the UAE are filing VAT returns but they are not VAT compliant e.g., claiming the input VAT on certain kinds of expenses which is not allowed by the executive regulation, or it is allowed but if it meets certain conditions. In most cases, the “tax invoice” template is not as per the template issued by the FTA (Federal Tax Authority).  

Our VAT consultant investigates each and every bit to make sure there are no such errors to protect our customers from potential administrative penalties.

  • VAT Review Services.

Some organizations are lacking technical Accounting and Tax staff to file their VAT Return accurately. Our team reviews their draft VAT Return prepared by our client’s staff before filing it to make sure it is VAT Compliant.

  • VAT Refund

A business will be in a VAT refund/Tax Credit position when purchases are more than sales in other words when input tax is greater than output tax on a VAT Return. A taxable person is able to request a VAT refund after submission of the VAT Return or at any later time when there is a credit owed to them.

VAT refund for Business Visitors.

Only “foreign businesses” that carry on business and meet the below conditions are eligible to apply for a refund.

  • They are not a taxable person in the UAE.
  • They have no place of establishment or fixed establishment in the UAE or implementing states.
  • They are registered as a business with the competent authority where they are established.

There are a few cases in which a refund is not available and a few circumstances you can claim a refund.

Our VAT refund team will do an analysis of your case before applying for VAT Refund under VAT refund for business visitors Scheme.

VAT Refund Scheme for Expo 2020 participants:

As per the Cabinet Decision No. 1 of 2020 on the ‘refund of Value added tax paid on Goods and Services connected with Expo 2020 Dubai’ the offices of the official participants of the Expo 2020 can claim a refund of VAT incurred by them on the import of certain supply of Goods and Services.

  • Where the Official Participant is not registered for UAE VAT, the refund applications can be made through the Bureau by submitting a special refund application to the Bureau.
  • Where the Official Participant is registered for VAT, it may reclaim VAT via its UAE VAT return.

It should be noted that the official participant must register for VAT if they are meeting the VAT registration criteria.

If you need any guidance on the matter, please get in touch with us we would love to meet you. 

Tax Refund for Tourists

If you need any guidance on the matter, please get in touch with us we would love to meet you.

  • VAT Reconsideration

If FTA (Federal Tax Authority) issues any penalties to the taxable person for not being VAT compliant and the taxable person wishes to submit a reconsideration application in relation to any decision made by FTA he/she can do this by submitting a reconsideration application/form within 20 working days from the date of Notification. As per the Amendment of Tax Procedures, the reconsideration application can now be submitted within 40 working days.

Please note the form and any supporting documents need to be submitted in Arabic language.  

  • VAT Voluntary Disclosure

If a Taxable Person becomes aware that a Tax Return or Tax refund submitted by him to the Authority or a Tax Assessment sent to him by the Authority is incorrect, resulting in a calculation of Payable Tax according to the Tax Law being less than it should have been, the Taxable Person must in that event apply to correct such Tax Return by submitting a Voluntary Disclosure within the time limit specified in the Executive Regulations.

  • VAT De-Registration

A Registrant shall apply to the Authority for Tax Deregistration in any of the following cases:

  • Business no longer making Taxable Supplies.
  • Business Making taxable supplies but below Voluntary threshold (Mandatory De-Registration).
  • Business making taxable supplies above the Voluntary threshold but below the mandatory threshold (Voluntary De-Registration).
  • Tax Residency and Commercial activity certificate.

Tax residency certificate issued to enable applicants to benefit from Double Tax Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) on income signed by the UAE. While commercial activity certificate enables applicants to refund VAT paid in advance outside the UAE.

If you need any guidance on VAT (Value added taxation) or Excise Taxation, please get in touch with us we would love to meet you.