Filing
VAT return filing (VAT201)
Your VAT201 built from reconciled books, filed on EmaraTax, with the payment timed to clear before the 28th rather than land on it.
How it worksNext VAT return and payment due 28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GST · quarterly cycle (Mar · Jun · Sep · Dec)
79days 00hrs 00min
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Across all seven emirates
Returns, registrations, refunds, corrections and audits. Each page below explains how the work actually runs, what is due when, and what it costs when it goes wrong — not a sales pitch with a form at the bottom.
Filing
Your VAT201 built from reconciled books, filed on EmaraTax, with the payment timed to clear before the 28th rather than land on it.
How it worksFiling
No sales does not mean no return. A nil period still has to be filed, and skipping it draws the same fixed penalty as a period with tax due.
How it worksFiling
The last return is the one the FTA reads most carefully, and the one people file as though it were routine.
How it worksCorrections
Found an error after filing? Which route you take is decided by one number, and taking the wrong one turns a fix into a breach.
How it worksCorrections
Disclose it yourself and the penalty is 1% a month. Wait for the audit notice and it starts at 15%, with the 1% still running on top.
How it worksCorrections
A penalty notice is not the end of the conversation, but the window to reply is short and the grounds that work are narrower than most people hope.
How it worksRegistration
Crossing AED 375,000 in any rolling 12 months creates the obligation, and the FTA backdates liability to the day you crossed it.
How it worksRegistration
From AED 187,500 registration becomes optional. Whether it is worth it turns on who your customers are, not on how big you are.
How it worksRegistration
Related companies under common control can file as one taxable person. Intra-group supplies fall out of scope, and every member becomes jointly liable.
How it worksRegistration
Deregistration is not optional once the trigger happens, and the window is 20 business days rather than whenever the paperwork gets done.
How it worksRecovery
A credit balance is not a refund until you ask for it, and the FTA pays claims that arrive with their evidence already attached.
How it worksRecovery
Foreign businesses with no UAE establishment can reclaim the VAT they paid here, if their own country would do the same for a UAE business.
How it worksRecovery
Retailers in the scheme issue tax-free tags through Planet, and Box 2 of the return arrives pre-filled with what Planet has processed.
How it worksCompliance
An audit notice starts a clock and a correspondence. Both are easier when the working papers already exist.
How it worksCompliance
The cheapest audit is the one you run on yourself, while the errors can still be disclosed at 1% a month.
How it worksCompliance
An invoice that misses a required field is not a small problem. It is the reason your customer cannot recover the VAT you charged them.
How it worksCompliance
Returns are only as good as the ledger behind them. Most filing errors are a chart of accounts problem wearing a tax costume.
How it worksCompliance
When the treatment is genuinely unclear, a written FTA position beats a confident internal memo.
How it worksCompliance
Someone has to answer the FTA. Whether that is you or us is a decision worth making before the letter arrives, not after.
How it worksCompliance
The person coding the invoices decides your VAT position. Training them is cheaper than correcting them.
How it worksvatfiling.com is run by Exiloz, a private tax consultancy in Dubai. We are not the Federal Tax Authority and we are not affiliated with it. If you came looking for the government portal, these are the real links.
Everything on this site — the deadline countdown, the penalty meter, the service pages — is here to explain what the FTA requires. The filing itself happens on EmaraTax, whether you do it or we do.
No charge for the first look. If nothing needs doing we will say so, and if something does you will know what it costs before you decide.
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