On 23 August 2017, the UAE issued Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on Value Added Tax (UAE VAT Law) to present VAT over the UAE. This step will change UAE structure a lot as everybody is keeping their eyes on the effects of implementation of these new laws.

The Tax Procedures Law also sets up the enlist of tax agents who may associate with the FTA on the behalf of the taxpayers, indicates the essential prerequisites for designating tax agents, and sets the gauges for keeping up classification by the expert and in addition its officers. The law requires any individual leading any kind of business to continue bookkeeping records and business books and in addition, any expense related data as controlled by the Law. All the required documents, forms, information, records must be filed with the Arabic authority. The FTA may, in any case, acknowledge records in some other dialect, as long as the individual gives a deciphered duplicate in Arabic to their detriment and duty, if so asked.

Registrants must incorporate their Tax Registration Number (TRN), in all correspondence and exchanges with the expert or with others. Systems for enrollment, and also the rights and commitments of the tax agents before the authority and the individual, indicated in the official controls of the law.

The UAE VAT Law supplements:

UAE Federal Law No. 7 of 2017 on Tax Procedures (issued on 11 June 2017) UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 7 of 2017 on Excise Tax (issued on 17 August 2017 in assistance of the Excise Tax Settlement for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) issued in April 2017), and UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 13 of 2016 on the Establishment of the UAE Federal Tax Authority (issued on 26 September 2016). The UAE VAT Law affirms that VAT will be presented over the UAE on 01 January 2018 at a rate of 5%. This is as expected and as per the Unified Agreement for VAT over the GCC Region (Unified GCC VAT Understanding), which was initially distributed in the Saudi Arabia Official Gazette in April 2017. VAT will be expected on the importation of specific products and in addition the supply or esteemed supply of specific products or services made by "Assessable Person". Organizations must enlist for VAT if their yearly assessable supplies and imports surpass the obligatory enlistment edge of AED 375,000. Discretionary VAT enlistment will be interested in those whose yearly assessable supplies and costs surpass the intentional limit of AED 187,500.

Article 45 of the UAE VAT Law diagrams different classes of "Products" and "Services" that will be liable to a zero rate of VAT, which incorporate export of "Products" and "Services" to outside the GCC global transport of travelers and "Products" which begin or end in, or go through, the UAE, including Services such as transport, the supply of essential human services. Supply of raw petroleum and gaseous petrol the supply of recently developed private structures, that are provided out of the blue, inside three years of their development, and the supply or import of "speculation valuable metals" for "venture purposes", In any case, the greater part of the above are liable to various conditions which the UAE VAT Law states will be cleared up in the Official Regulations to the UAE VAT Law (the "Official Regulations"). Executive Regulations will be discharged in the coming months is expected.