Global Tax Architecture
VAT Consultants In Dubai
Registration, filing, review and FTA representation for businesses operating in the UAE.
VAT in the UAE is administratively light and technically unforgiving. The rate is simple; the questions that generate penalties are not — whether a supply is zero-rated or exempt, whether a designated zone changes the place of supply, whether input tax on a mixed-use cost is recoverable and in what proportion.
We act for businesses that would rather resolve those questions once, correctly, than discover them in an FTA assessment. That means the filing gets done, but it also means somebody senior has looked at how your transactions are actually treated before the return is built on top of them.
- 5%
- Standard rate of UAE VAT
- AED 375,000
- Mandatory registration threshold
- AED 187,500
- Voluntary registration threshold
- 2018
- In force since 1 January
Figures reviewed August 2026. General information about UAE VAT, not advice on your circumstances — thresholds and treatment depend on facts we would need to see.
What we handle
Registration and grouping
Assessing whether you have crossed a threshold, registering the entity, and structuring a tax group where related entities make one registration the more efficient answer.
Return preparation and filing
Preparing and submitting periodic returns, reconciling them to your ledgers, and resolving the input-recovery questions that a bookkeeping system will not answer on its own.
VAT health checks
A review of past filings and treatment before the FTA does one. Errors found by you are a voluntary disclosure; the same errors found by an audit are a penalty.
Transaction and treatment advice
Place-of-supply, zero-rating, exempt supplies, reverse charge and designated-zone questions — the areas where a wrong assumption compounds quietly across every invoice until somebody checks.
FTA audit and dispute support
Representation during an FTA audit, assembling the documentation trail, and handling reconsideration requests where an assessment is wrong.
Deregistration and refunds
Closing a registration cleanly when a business winds down or falls below the threshold, and recovering refunds where input tax exceeds output tax.
Who this is for
Businesses where VAT is a structural question, not a form.
Companies crossing the registration threshold for the first time. Groups with entities inside and outside a designated zone. Businesses importing services, where the reverse charge is easy to miss and expensive to have missed. Anyone who has had a return queried and does not want a second one.
Have your VAT position reviewed before the next return.
Tell us what the business does and where it is registered. We will tell you what needs attention, and what does not.