United Arab Emirates Live

The UAE requires businesses to exchange invoices electronically over Peppol and, on every transaction, have their provider independently report a summary of the tax data straight to the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) — in near-real time, not as a periodic filing. This is called DCTCE (Decentralized Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange), and it's the jurisdiction Arratech supports most fully today.

The mandate at a glance

  • Every VAT-registered business, and some non-VAT-registered ones, will eventually be in scope, phased by annual revenue.
  • A pilot programme is live now for invited businesses (mandatory go-live 1 July 2026). Large businesses (revenue ≥ AED 50 million) must appoint a provider by 31 July 2026 and go live by 1 January 2027. Smaller businesses follow by 1 July 2027, and government entities by 1 October 2027.
  • Every business appoints a single accredited provider that handles both sending and receiving on their behalf.
  • The regulatory model runs the tax authority itself as a participant on the Peppol network — there's no separate government gateway involved.

How it works

  • Invoices and credit notes use the UAE-specific Peppol invoice format (PINT AE) and travel over the standard Peppol network.
  • Businesses are identified by their Tax Registration Number (the first 10 digits, under Peppol identifier scheme 0235). If your business is part of a VAT tax group, each member has its own number and onboards individually.
  • On every transaction, your provider — and independently, the receiving party's provider — each submit a derived tax-summary document straight to the FTA. It's not a copy of your invoice, just the tax-relevant data, and it happens within minutes of the invoice being validated.
  • Delivery and tax-reporting outcomes are both confirmed automatically, so you can see exactly what happened to each invoice and each tax submission.

What Arratech handles for you

  • Peppol Access Point and directory registration under your Tax Registration Number.
  • Validation of your invoices and credit notes against the UAE format.
  • Delivery tracking for every invoice you send or receive.
  • Tax-summary document generation and submission to the FTA — this is live in production today, making UAE our most complete jurisdiction pipeline.

Getting set up

  1. Create your Arratech account and organisation — Getting Started, Create an Organisation.
  2. Register as a participant using your Tax Registration Number — Create a Participant.
  3. Send invoices in the UAE format — Send a Transaction.
  4. Add a webhook so you're notified as things happen — Add a Webhook.
  5. Confirm delivery status for every invoice — Verify delivery with MLS.