Small Business Relief & Their Conditions

Small Business Relief & Their Conditions

Who can elect for the Relief? 

  • Resident Person (natural persons and juridical persons)

What are the conditions?

  • Election for each Tax Period.
  • Revenue equal to or less than AED 3,000,000 in both the current and all previous Tax Periods

What is the Relief?

  • Treated as not having derived any Taxable Income in the Tax Period
  • Other exemptions, reliefs and deductions are not available
  • No transfer pricing documentation required,  however, still needs to comply with the arm’s length principle 

Who cannot elect for the Relief? 

A Qualifying Free Zone Person
A member of a multinational group
 with consolidated group revenue of more than AED 3.15 billion

The small business relief is not available for MNE group of companies that are operating other country than UAE and there consolidated revenue are more than AED 3.15 billion. The MNE companies are required to prepare the Country-by-Country Reports as issued Cabinet Resolution No. 44 of 2020 on Organizing Reports Submitted by Multinational Companies.

Who will be party of MNE group:

  • The separate business that is part of preparing the consolidated financial statements
  • The separate business that is excluded during preparing the consolidated financial statements based on size or materiality grounds.
  • If business prepare separate financial statements for the permanent establishment (PE) If any company falls under the above mentioned and even revenue is below equal to or below AED 3,000,000 for the relevant Tax Period and all previous Tax Periods. The company is not eligible for small business relief.

Example: Revenue in previous Tax Periods

Mr. Y operates a Business in Sharjah. He is a UAE Resident Person for Corporate Tax purposes. His Tax Period ends on 31 December each year.

In the most recent Tax Period ending 31 December 2026, Mr. Y derived Revenue of AED 1,900,000. In the previous Tax Period ending 31 December 2025, he had Revenue of AED 4,300,000.

Mr. Y is not eligible to benefit from Small Business Relief for the Tax Period ending 31 December 2026 as his Revenue has exceeded the threshold of AED 3,000,000 in the prior Tax Period.

When can I claim a VAT adjustment for bad debt?
You can claim the adjustment if you’ve issued a proper tax invoice, paid VAT to FTA, written off the receivable in your books, waited six months from the supply date, and notified the customer.
What evidence must I keep for a bad debt VAT claim?
You must keep: • Tax invoices • Proof of VAT payment • Accounting records showing the write-off • Copies of communication with the customer
How do I report the VAT adjustment in my return?
Use the adjustment column in Box 1 of your VAT return for each relevant emirate. Enter the VAT amount you want to reclaim.
What if the customer pays after I’ve claimed bad debt relief?
If the customer later pays, you must declare the VAT for that payment in your next VAT return.
How can Mubarak Al Ketbi (MAK) Auditing help with bad debt VAT adjustments?
We check your eligibility, review your records, prepare your VAT return, and make sure you follow every law to reclaim your VAT with no headaches.

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