Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Episode 74: Ziad Salloum, Salloum & Partners, United Arab Emirates
The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) of the UAE recently amended some provisions of the UAE VAT Executive Regulations, particularly Cabinet Decision No. 52 of 2017, on the Implementing Regulation of Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of...more
The UAE government has taken steps to move towards a fully digitized tax system by adopting E-Invoices. The E-invoicing process will be mandatory for all business to business (B2B) and business to government (B2G)...more
The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), located in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has emerged as one of the world's most important financial free zones. Established to foster financial and commercial activities,...more
The United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) Federal Tax Authority has recently published the draft Executive Regulations of Federal Decree Law No. 8 of 2017 on Value Added Tax (the “VAT Law”) which introduces a 5% VAT on the import and...more
The UAE will introduce value added tax (“VAT”) at the rate of 5% from 1 January 2018. The basic principle underpinning the introduction of VAT is to further improve the economic base of the UAE. This is a significant...more
As of 1 January 2018, value added tax (“VAT”) at the rate of 5% will be applied on a wide range of goods and services in the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”). This follows from the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (“GCC”) entry into a...more
Although the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) currently has Emirate level tax legislation in place, taxation has, to date, generally only applied to the oil and banking sectors. The last decade has seen the member states of the...more