Tax determination & engines
Automated tax logic so VAT, reverse charge and excise are calculated correctly at the point of transaction — not corrected later.
Tax Digitalisation
UAE tax has gone digital in under a decade — VAT, corporate tax, and now mandatory e-invoicing, all filed through EmaraTax. Spreadsheets can't keep pace with real-time, data-driven tax. We build the system underneath: tax logic configured in your ERP, e-invoicing and EmaraTax integrated, data reconciled automatically, and dashboards that show your position before the FTA ever asks — at a fixed fee agreed before we start.
What it means
Tax technology is the layer of systems, integrations and data pipelines that make tax calculation, reporting and filing automatic and accurate — instead of a monthly scramble across spreadsheets, PDFs and portals. It's the difference between doing tax and running it.
The UAE has compressed a decade of tax reform into a few years: VAT since 2018, corporate tax since 2023, and mandatory e-invoicing phasing in from 2026 — all routed through the FTA's EmaraTax platform. Each new tax adds data you must capture at source, reconcile, and report on a fixed clock. Manual processes that just about coped with one tax quietly break under three.
Good tax technology fixes the problem where it starts — in the transaction. Tax is determined correctly the moment an invoice is raised or a bill is booked; the right data flows straight from your ERP or accounting system into returns; e-invoices are generated and cleared in the required format; and reconciliations that used to take days run in minutes.
Done well, it does more than save time. It gives you a single, defensible version of the numbers — the same figures in your ledgers, your returns and your dashboards — so an FTA audit becomes a document you export, not a project you dread. That's what we build.
What we handle
We work with the system you already run — SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, Tally, QuickBooks and more — and make it do the tax work for you.
Automated tax logic so VAT, reverse charge and excise are calculated correctly at the point of transaction — not corrected later.
Tax codes, mappings and profiles set up correctly in SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, Zoho, Tally or QuickBooks — the engine room of clean filings.
Your system connected to an accredited service provider and the Peppol network, so compliant e-invoices generate and clear automatically.
Return data prepared, validated and packaged for EmaraTax — with robotic workflows that take the manual keying out of every cycle.
Live views of liabilities, input-tax recovery and filing status — so tax is something you monitor, not something that surprises you.
Reconciliations, validation rules and a tax control framework that catch errors before they reach a return — and evidence them for audit.
What's involved
Software alone doesn't make tax accurate — the data feeding it does. These are the foundations we put in place so automation you can trust actually holds.
Every account and transaction type mapped to the right VAT, excise and CT treatment — the map the whole engine runs on.
Correct treatment applied when the invoice is raised or bill booked, so downstream returns need correction, not reconstruction.
ERP, billing, e-invoicing provider and EmaraTax connected — no re-keying, no copy-paste between silos.
Invoices structured and cleared through an accredited provider to meet the UAE mandate as it phases in from 2026.
Ledger-to-return and input-tax reconciliations that run every cycle and flag the exceptions for a human to review.
Rules that check completeness and consistency so errors are caught pre-submission — not surfaced in an FTA query.
Every figure traceable from dashboard to return to source document — the evidence an audit asks for, exported not assembled.
Documentation and training so the system stays owned in-house — not a black box only the consultant understands.
The signals
Most finance teams reach for tax tech at a breaking point — a new tax, a failed reconciliation, an audit. If any of these ring true, the manual approach has run its course.
Every return is rebuilt by hand from exports and workarounds — slow, fragile, and impossible to audit with confidence.
The mandate is phasing in and your systems can't yet generate or clear invoices in the required format.
You're implementing or upgrading a system and need the tax logic configured right the first time.
Voluntary disclosures and reclassifications have become routine — a sign the errors start upstream, in the data.
You need to pull complete, reconciled, traceable data quickly — and prove where every figure came from.
More entities, currencies and transactions than the current method can handle without armies of manual checks.
How we help
We combine tax expertise with implementation — so the technology reflects the rules, and the rules are configured to run. One fixed fee, agreed up front.
We review your systems, data and filing process, find the manual pain and error points, and map the target state.
We choose the right mix of ERP configuration, tax engine, e-invoicing provider and automation for your size and systems.
Tax codes, mappings, connections to EmaraTax and the e-invoicing network, and the reconciliations built and wired together.
We run live data through the system, reconcile against known returns, and tune the rules until the numbers agree.
We train your team, document the setup, and stay on hand as rules evolve — so the system keeps pace with UAE tax.
Get started
Tell us what you run today — your systems, your taxes, your pain points — and we'll reply within one business day with a clear plan and an all-inclusive price.