UAE Ministry of Economic Climate and The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) have launched an incorporated program to facilitate the implementation of Value Added Tax Obligation (VAT) in order to secure consumers' civil liberties and stop profiteering.

The announcement was made at a conference held at the Ministry's headquarters, and was gone to by His Excellency Eng. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al Shehhi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy; His Excellency Khalid Al Bustani, Director-General of the FTA; and reps of the Economic Development Departments and various other entities responsible for shielding consumer rights in the nation.

Preventing businesses from taking advantage on the introduction of VAT to increase prices was the main subject on the agenda. The meeting wrapped up with the adoption of an incorporated program that will allow FTA and the Ministry to accept various other authorities to discover tax violations and take the required procedures against violators, in addition to educate consumers concerning their legal rights.

The framework includes joint awareness projects on taxable and exempt products, along with demands for invoices issued by stores and electrical outlets using taxed services. In addition, a participation agreement in between the FTA and economic divisions was authorized throughout the meeting to monitor markets and permit inspectors in these departments to verify the credibility of the Tax Registration Numbers (TRN) published on billings, and coordinate concerning violations to take the essential activities.

Plans to arrange training programmes for inspectors in the economic divisions were talked about during the conference to acquaint assessors with tax procedures and legislations and boost the performance and efficiency of their treatments to stop offenses.

His Excellency Eng. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al Shehhi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic situation, said: "The Ministry is right here to ensure all business markets can play their part in adding to national financial development. This conference becomes part of the Ministry's initiatives to safeguard the civil liberties of consumers and protect them from profiteering, in addition to avoiding businesses from using the introduction of VAT to earn unjustified rate increases. Therefore, and in partnership with the Federal Tax Authority and other stakeholders, the Ministry sustains efforts made by all parties to safeguard customers' rights in accordance with UAE's strategic vision".

His Excellency Khalid Al Bustani, Director General of the FTA, said: "The efforts made by the Ministry of Economic situation in the direction of protecting customers are an important step in developing methodical and precise supervision of the marketplace, in addition to guaranteeing the execution of the tax obligation system inning accordance with the greatest global standards, helping the UAE attain sustainable growth and boosting the performance of key industries for the good of the entire culture".

The FTA has linked its systems with Custom-mades systems in any way entrance ports in order to gather tax obligations from importers, noting that the nation is observing a high activity in imports motion and products entrance.

The FTA emphasized that customers should check that billings released
by UAE businesses include:
- "Tax obligation Invoice" displayed
- Tax Obligation Enrollment Number
- Rate includes VAT
- The amount of tax charged

The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) gets in touch with citizens and residents to be careful of uninformed and unstable sources of information that are circulating deceptive info around the intro of VAT in the country.

The FTA stresses on the relevance of referencing and checking exact resources of information, such as the declarations released by the Ministry of Financing and the Federal Tax Obligation Authority; with the FTA's official internet site: www.tax.gov.ae and through the official social networks account deal with, @uaetax.

The FTA's official web site is continuously updated with detailed, detailed and exact info and solution to tax relevant questions and inquiries in the UAE.