Dubai- November 12, 2020:

The UAE’s Ministry of Finance said it raised Dh11.6 billion in value-added tax (VAT) revenues in the first eight months of 2020 and the government has no plans to raise VAT to more than five per cent.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia levied five per cent VAT from January 1, 2018 and later Bahrain also introduced it. Saudi Arabia, the region’s largest economy, hiked the VAT to 15 per cent from July 1, 2020. Oman is set to become fourth country in the GCC to impose VAT from April next year.

Saeed Rashid Al Yateem, assistant under-secretary of resource and budget at Ministry of Finiance, affirmed that there are no plans or decisions at the moment to raise VAT to more than five per cent in the UAE.

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