The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has outlined four conditions that would allow foreign businesses to recover value-added tax (VAT) incurred in the UAE.
To be eligible for the VAT refund, the first condition is that foreign businesses must not have a place of establishment or fixed establishment in the UAE or in any of the VAT-implementing GCC states.
Secondly, such foreign businesses must not be a taxable person in the UAE.
Thirdly, they must also be registered as an establishment with a competent authority in the jurisdiction in which they are established;
and finally, they must be from a country that implements VAT and that equally provides VAT refunds to UAE businesses in similar circumstances.
The authority clarified that the period of each refund claim shall be a calendar year, noting that for claims in respect of the 2018 calendar year, refund applications can be made as of April 1, 2019. However, for subsequent calendar years, the opening date for accepting refund applications will be March 1 of the following year; this means that for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2019, applications will be accepted as of March 1, 2020.
******The minimum claim amount of each VAT refund application submitted by business visitors is Dh2,000.*****
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