GCC and UAE VAT reference texts with a compliance checklist and study notes
- Status
- Specialist course
- Subject
- Taxation
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- 24 guided learning hours — typically four days intensive or five weeks part time
- Delivery
- Live online, or on site for groups
- Options
- Individual, group or corporate
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- Availability
- Worldwide — Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, or in the UK
- Study options
- Online from your own country, or in person in the UK
- Course fee
- Quoted on request
Course overview
Value added tax arrived comparatively recently in the Gulf, and many finance teams learned it under deadline pressure. This programme rebuilds that knowledge properly from first principles: what makes a supply taxable, how input tax recovery actually works, what a compliant tax invoice must contain, and how a return is assembled from the ledger. The teaching is principle-led so that the material remains useful as rates and thresholds change, with country-specific rules examined separately for each GCC market.
Who this course is for
- Accountants responsible for preparing VAT returns
- Bookkeepers coding transactions for tax
- Business owners registered or approaching registration
- Finance staff facing a tax authority audit
Learning objectives
By the end of the programme learners will be able to:
- Explain how VAT operates as a transaction tax through a supply chain
- Determine whether a supply is standard-rated, zero-rated, exempt or out of scope
- Assess registration obligations against the relevant threshold
- Prepare a VAT return from ledger data and reconcile it to the accounts
- Maintain records and tax invoices that satisfy an authority review