United Arab Emirates VAT returns and e-invoicing in Rebota ERP

The facts that decide fit in United Arab Emirates

Currency	AED — UAE Dirham. Supported, with a per-document exchange rate on every transaction.
Financial year	1 January – 31 December. Supported — Rebota's fiscal calendar is resolved per company, not hardcoded to India's April–March.
Tax regime	VAT at 5%, identified by TRN. Rebota computes it on every document and lays out the FTA VAT 201 figures box by box; you submit the return.
E-invoicing	Peppol e-invoicing, phased from January 2027. Not built in Rebota.
Right-to-left interface	Available. Choosing Arabic switches the app to a right-to-left layout. Translation is partial and some screens still show English, so check the screens your team uses during the free trial.

Calendar financial year and 5% VAT. Rebota checks the TRN, computes VAT on every document and lays out the FTA VAT 201 figures; you submit the return on the FTA portal. Choosing Arabic switches the app to a right-to-left layout, though some screens are still in English. UAE e-invoicing on Peppol, through an accredited service provider, becomes mandatory from 1 January 2027 for businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more and from 1 July 2027 for the rest; Rebota does not connect to an accredited provider yet.

What works here, and what does not

Works fully

Projects, budgets and job-level profitability
Production orders, BOM, routings, shop floor and traceability
Inventory, batches, serials and stock valuation
Procurement — requisition, RFQ, purchase order, receipt, three-way match
Sales, customers, quotations and invoicing in AED
A full general ledger on a 1 January – 31 December year
The non-disableable, hash-chained audit trail

Not built for United Arab Emirates

Submitting the FTA VAT 201 to the tax authority (Rebota prepares the figures)
Connection to Peppol e-invoicing
Local payroll deductions beyond end-of-service gratuity and the WPS salary file, which are built
Local statutory financial statement formats

In practice that means businesses here run operations on Rebota and keep a local accounting package or accountant for the tax return. Whether that is a sensible arrangement depends on which problem is costing you more — and if the answer is your tax filing, Rebota is not what you need today.

By sector in United Arab Emirates

These sectors have a page written specifically for United Arab Emirates — what the local requirement is, and which parts of it Rebota meets.

Every sector, without the country-specific detail:

Rebota in United Arab Emirates — common questions

Can I use Rebota in United Arab Emirates?▾

Yes for running the business — projects, production, inventory, procurement, sales and the general ledger all work, in AED and on a 1 January – 31 December financial year. No for filing your taxes: Rebota prepares the FTA VAT 201 figures, but submitting the return stays with you or your accountant.

Does Rebota support AED?▾

Yes. Invoices, bills, purchase orders and quotations each carry their own currency and exchange rate, so AED transactions are recorded at the rate that applied to that document rather than converted at a single company-wide rate.

Does Rebota handle a 1 January – 31 December financial year?▾

Yes. The fiscal calendar is resolved per company rather than hardcoded, so reporting periods, year-end and comparatives all follow United Arab Emirates's year rather than India's.

Does Rebota file VAT at 5% returns for United Arab Emirates?▾

No. This is the honest boundary: local VAT at 5% filing is not built, and we would rather tell you now than after you have migrated. Rebota computes the tax on every document and lays out the FTA VAT 201 figures box by box, but it does not submit the return.

Will Rebota support United Arab Emirates statutory filing later?▾

It is on the roadmap and the foundations — multi-currency, per-country fiscal calendars, a per-company statutory profile — are already built, which is why operations work here today. We do not publish dates for regulatory work, because the timeline depends on Peppol e-invoicing, phased from January 2027 rather than on us.