{"id":"uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","canonicalSlug":"uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","language":"en","title":"UAE revises electronic-invoicing rules","summary":"A 24-month tax-group exclusion begins in 2027; record retention continues and the UAE storage-location requirement is removed.","body":["Ministerial Decision 197 of 2026 amends the UAE electronic-invoicing rules. Transactions within the same tax group are excluded for 24 months from 1 January 2027.","Businesses must retain invoices and related data for the period prescribed by tax law and provide them to the Federal Tax Authority on request. The amendment removes the UAE data-storage requirement and system-failure reporting provisions; it took effect on 1 October 2026."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"UAE revises electronic-invoicing rules\n\nA 24-month tax-group exclusion begins in 2027; record retention continues and the UAE storage-location requirement is removed.\n\nMinisterial Decision 197 of 2026 amends the UAE electronic-invoicing rules. Transactions within the same tax group are excluded for 24 months from 1 January 2027.\n\nBusinesses must retain invoices and related data for the period prescribed by tax law and provide them to the Federal Tax Authority on request. The amendment removes the UAE data-storage requirement and system-failure reporting provisions; it took effect on 1 October 2026.","category":"fiscal","region":"world","topics":["non-oil-economy"],"eventDate":"2026-10-19","eventDateBasis":"The Ministry issued the amendment on 19 October 2026.","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T15:13:06Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-20T15:13:06Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-20T15:04:36Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-19","translatedAt":"2026-10-20T14:55:11Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2tl9em-ministry-finance-amends-electronic-invoicing","name":"Emirates News Agency (WAM)","licence":"No open reuse licence stated; factual reporting only.","checkedAt":"2026-10-20","licenseUrl":"https://www.wam.ae/","attribution":"Emirates News Agency (WAM); original factual summary, no source image or copied prose.","publishedAt":"2026-10-19"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/uae-federal-einvoicing-amendments-oct19"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["policy-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"AE","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}