VAT Mapping for UAE Companies

Not every sale carries VAT at the standard rate, and not every purchase gives you input tax back. Exports, certain services to overseas customers, some property and some financial activity are all treated differently, and reverse charge changes who accounts for the tax. VAT mapping is the exercise of deciding, once and in advance, how each kind of transaction your business makes should be treated. Done at the start, it makes every return afterwards routine.

What This Service Includes

• Reviewing every revenue stream and expense category in your business
• Assigning the correct VAT treatment to each: standard rated, zero rated, exempt, out of scope or reverse charge
• Identifying which input tax is recoverable and which is blocked
• Setting up the treatment inside your accounting system so it is applied automatically
• Reviewing your contracts and invoice wording where the treatment depends on them
• A written map your team and ours both work from
• Revisiting the map when you add a new product, service or market

What You Need to Provide

• A description of what your business sells and to whom
• Sample sales invoices covering each type of transaction
• Your main supplier and expense categories
• Customer contracts, where terms affect the treatment
• Import and export documentation, if you trade across borders

How It Works

1. We go through your business with you and list every type of transaction it makes.
2. We assign the correct treatment to each and explain the reasoning.
3. We configure the treatment in the accounting system so it applies automatically from then on.
4. You receive the written map, and we review it whenever your business changes.

Why H2RS

Most VAT errors are not arithmetic. They are the same transaction treated the wrong way, repeated every month until somebody notices. Mapping catches that once, at the start, rather than in a reassessment two years later. Because we also prepare your returns, the map is not a document that sits in a drawer. It is how your returns are actually built.