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UAE VAT · Written in Deira
No news roundups. Each of these comes out of work we actually do — the boxes people fill in wrong, the penalty arithmetic after the 2026 reform, and the input tax that was never recoverable in the first place. Every figure is sourced to the legislation it comes from.
Filing10 August 20269 min read
Fourteen boxes, two of them filled in for you before you start. Here is what belongs in each one, and the four that account for almost every correction we are asked to make.
Read the piecePenalties10 August 20268 min read
The penalty for owning up changed on 14 April 2026. It is now 1% a month, and the gap between disclosing and being caught is wider than it has ever been. Here is the arithmetic.
Read the pieceInput tax10 August 20269 min read
Three categories of blocked input tax, one rule change from 2024 that most published guidance still gets wrong, and a timing condition that turns a valid claim into a wrong-period claim.
Read the pieceExiloz prepares the VAT201 from reconciled books, files it on EmaraTax, and times the payment so it clears before the 28th. The first look at your position costs nothing.
