VAT returns, prepared from your own books.

The UAE VAT 201 report

The UAE VAT 201 report follows the FTA’s return: quarterly, due 28 days after the period ends. It fills standard-rated supplies and their VAT, supplies under the reverse charge, zero-rated supplies, exempt supplies, standard-rated expenses and their recoverable VAT, and the totals of VAT due and recoverable. Reverse-charge VAT is shown as owed and recovered at the same time. Boxes fed only by customs data or by the portal itself, such as imports declared through customs, and the adjustment columns, are left for you to complete on EmaraTax. Zero-rated and exempt purchases are not reported, matching the form.

• Box numbers and labels matching the VAT 201
• Reverse charge owed and recovered together
• Quarterly periods, due 28 days after the quarter
• Arabic box names alongside English

The Saudi VAT return and Oman VAT return

For Saudi Arabia, the VAT return report comes in quarterly and monthly versions, due by the end of the following month. It covers standard-rated sales and their VAT, zero-rated domestic sales, exports, exempt sales, standard-rated domestic purchases and deductible VAT, imports and services under the reverse charge, and net VAT due. For Oman, the quarterly VAT return report covers supplies taxed at 5%, zero-rated supplies and exports, exempt supplies, reverse-charge purchases from outside the GCC, input VAT and net VAT payable, due 30 days after the quarter.

• Saudi VAT return, quarterly or monthly
• Oman VAT return, quarterly
• Exports and zero-rated supplies kept apart

Bahrain and other countries: the standard return

Where Flowyana has no country-specific layout, including Bahrain, the standard return gives you every figure a VAT return normally asks for: taxable sales, output tax, taxable purchases, input tax, exports, reverse-charge purchases, reverse-charge tax owed and claimed, non-recoverable input tax and net tax payable or refundable. Copy those figures into your authority’s form. Kuwait and Qatar have no VAT in force as of October 2026, so most businesses there will not need a VAT return.

Every box opens to its documents

A VAT return is only as good as your ability to defend it. In Flowyana, every box that adds up documents opens to the list behind it: the document, its type, its date, the customer or supplier, the taxable amount and the tax. Each one opens the original invoice or bill. Totals that add other boxes point you to those boxes instead. You can export the return’s boxes and the selected box’s documents together, so your accountant or auditor sees exactly how each figure was built.

• Document list for every box
• Taxable amount and tax per document
• Export boxes and documents together

Warnings that catch what would be missed

Two warnings protect the return. If posted lines carry no tax rate, the report shows their taxable amount and tax and asks you to pick a rate, because no rate-specific box can include them. If lines fall in no box of the return, it shows those too, so you can check how they were taxed. Both are worked out for sales and purchases separately. Fix the documents, prepare the return again, and the warnings clear.

Where Flowyana stands on e-invoicing

A VAT return report is not e-invoicing. As of October 2026, UAE e-invoicing starts for businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more on 1 January 2027, and for the rest on 1 July 2027, through accredited service providers. Saudi Arabia’s ZATCA continues to bring businesses into Phase 2 integration in waves. Flowyana does not submit, clear or report e-invoices to either system, and is not an accredited service provider. It keeps the invoice data and VAT figures those systems use.