The UAE residents will have to pay 5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on food, water and power and higher education from next year.

Girish Chand, director, MCA Management Consultants, said both Saudi and the UAE authorities have brought these categories under the VAT.

Khalid Al Bustani, director general of Federal Tax Authority said, the tourists in the UAE will also get refunds on the returns. He further said that they are working with the parties involved in the project.

Under the VAT regulation, higher education institutes which are more than 50 percent funded by the government, will not be charged VAT but the rest will be.

Khalid Al Bustani, director general of Federal Tax Authority, on Wednesday said the tourists in the UAE will also get refunds on the returns. He said the authority is working with the parties involved in the project and expected to be rolled out ahead of VAT implementation.

This is an excerpt from an article published in the Khaleej Times and you can read it here.