AI agent · United Arab Emirates tax
Pay for it once. It keeps your books compliant every month.
Tax Watch is an AI agent that plugs into your accounting. It knows more than 60 UAE tax rules, all written down, sourced and dated, and it gains more with every monthly update. Every month it re-reads your entries, flags what's off, and prepares your VAT and Corporate Tax filings.
AED 799once
An accountant: AED 6,000 a year, minimum. Every year, for as long as the company trades.
Weekly watch · FTA and Ministry of Finance sources
No launch date announced. You get your next twelve months of deadlines as soon as you sign up.
Here's what it sends you.
Tax Watch
Sample monthly report
3 things worth a look this month
- DecideRule T-01
An internal transfer booked as a sale
AED 12,000 moved between your two accounts was recorded as revenue. That inflates your turnover, and therefore your thresholds.
- EstimatedRule A-01
Three foreign purchases without reverse charge
Two are classified automatically. The third is waiting on you: that supplier has never been seen before.
- ComputedRule A-05
And everything else: nothing to do
On the remaining foreign purchases the net impact is zero. We don't bother you with what costs you nothing.
Next deadline
This quarter's VAT return
VAT registration threshold
Not one more dashboard to go and check. One message a month, carrying only what needs you.
Its rhythm
Every VAT and Corporate Tax deadline, and what it does in between.
An agent isn't judged on what it can do, but on what it keeps doing. Four tempos, each with its own output.
Every week
It checks whether the law moved
FTA and Ministry of Finance announcements are re-read, along with legislation listings. If there's nothing new, it stays quiet, you get nothing.
Alerts only when something is new
Why that often: a voluntary disclosure runs on a twenty-working-day clock from the moment you become aware of an error. A month's detection lag eats most of that window.
Every month
Your report, and the rulebook update
It re-reads every entry of the month, surfaces the anomalies and sends you one page. In parallel, the texts spotted during the week are read, rules corrected, then put back through regression tests before taking effect.
Monthly report · Corrected and tested rules
Every quarter
VAT, and a second look at the grey areas
Your return is pre-filled box by box, every figure traced back to the entries behind it. And the rulebook's uncertain positions are re-examined: what was unclear doesn't stay unclear out of inertia.
VAT return prepared · Movements explained
Every year
From accounting profit to taxable income
Every adjustment tied to a cited rule. The regimes that apply to you are tested, not assumed.
Corporate Tax pack · Assumptions note
And if it doesn't run, you're told. A watch that's silent because it broke is more dangerous than no watch at all: it gives you the illusion of cover.
Under the hood
It doesn't improvise. It applies the FTA's own texts, dated and sourced.
Most tools that call themselves AI guess, then phrase it nicely. This one starts from a rulebook: more than 60 hand-written rules, each with its official source and its effective date. The model only steps in where the rule doesn't decide, and it says so.
Seven families
- Sales
- Purchases
- Cash
- Setup
- Corporate tax
- Penalties
- Non-tax obligations
The rulebook isn't frozen: every monthly pass adds the rules drawn from the texts spotted that month, tested before they take effect.
- No rule without an official source
- A firm's note, or a plausible answer from a model, triggers a check, never a rule. What hasn't been read in the official text doesn't get in.
A transfer between two of the company's own accounts is not a sale.
When
Money comes in from an account the company already owns.
Then
The entry leaves turnover and becomes an internal movement.
Why it matters
Booked as revenue, that transfer inflates turnover, and with it the VAT threshold, small-business relief eligibility and the taxable base, all at once.
Official source verified
Version 1.1
The same rule, two states
The agent picks the version that applied on the transaction date, never the date it runs.
A correction predating the switch stays computed with the text of its time.
What it already knows
Seven UAE tax questions it has already settled.
These aren't selling points, they're seven rules from the rulebook, each with its identifier. They come up in almost every set of books, and almost always the wrong way round.
- My client is in Saudi Arabia. Do I charge VAT?
- No. The FTA recognises no other GCC state as an Implementing State. A Saudi, Omani, Qatari, Bahraini or Kuwaiti client is treated exactly like a European one. Plenty of articles online claim the opposite.
- I'm in a free zone, so VAT doesn't apply to me?
- It does. A free zone is a licensing status with no VAT effect in itself. Only a Designated Zone is treated as outside the State, and only for goods: services there are deemed supplied in the UAE.
- I'm under Small Business Relief, so there's nothing to file?
- There is. The relief waives the tax, not the return. The FTA said so publicly on 3 August 2026. Missing it costs AED 500 a month, then 1,000, plus 10,000 if you never registered.
- I buy software or a server abroad. Nothing to declare?
- There is. Reverse charge at 5%, boxes 3 and 10 of the VAT 201. Cash impact is nil where the input VAT is recoverable, but the omission is still a filing error, and it's the most common false negative in an audit.
- My phone bill is in my own name, paid from the company account.
- The VAT isn't recoverable until the invoice is in the company's name: that's money lost, not merely delayed. Reversible within 5 years if the supplier reissues.
- Late VAT payment is 2%, right?
- Not since 14 April 2026: 14% per year. And a delay that occurred in 2025 is computed under the old schedule, not the new one, the agent picks the text in force on the date of the taxable event.
- When does e-invoicing start?
- For a company under AED 50m turnover: accredited provider to be appointed before 31 March 2027, compliant issuance from 1 July 2027. B2B and B2G; B2C stays out of scope.
Mainland or free zone: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain.
The safety rail
It always tells you how sure it is.
It's an agent, not an oracle. It will get things wrong. So the point isn't to pretend otherwise, it's to make every mistake visible before it costs anything.
Computed
A rule applies and the data is sufficient. The rule is cited, so you can trace it back.
The rule is cited
Estimated
An assumption was needed. It's written in plain sight next to the result, not tucked into a footnote.
The assumption is shown
Decide
No rule covers the case, or the stakes are too high. It stops and asks you.
The pack is blocked
A pack never reaches « ready » while a red is open. The agent would rather block than pretend.
The maths
An accountant is rent. An agent is a purchase.
That's the whole difference. You're not renting a service that stops the day you stop paying: you're buying a tool, and it keeps running.
An accountant
AED 6,000a year, minimum
Every year, for as long as the company trades. And they record what you send them, they watch nothing.
Tax Watch
AED 799once
You install it, it's yours. It re-reads your books every month with nothing coming back around to be paid.
Price isn't really the point, though. A late-filing penalty compares to no fee at all, and that is exactly what an agent looking every month spares you.
Getting started
It installs on your side. Your books don't travel.
Tax Watch runs inside your own Claude. It isn't an online service you hand your accounting to: it's an agent you install, working where your data already lives.
You install it in Claude Code
The agent comes with its rulebook and its engine. Nothing to host, nothing to administer, no extra account to create.
It asks its opening questions
Legal form, VAT effective date, bank accounts, regular suppliers. Around twenty questions that build your file, that's what makes it precise for you rather than generic.
You connect your books
Zoho Books directly if you have it. Otherwise an export from your software. Otherwise your invoices as they are, it copes, and it tells you what it can't see.
You schedule its runs
Weekly, monthly, quarterly. Once scheduled they run without you, and tell you if they don't.
No entry ever crosses this frame.
Allow an hour the first time.
One thing we'd rather say upfront: its coverage depends on how well it knows your suppliers. The first month is the most manual, and it gets sharper the longer it reads you.
Read this before signing up
What Tax Watch is not
This is not an FTA-registered tax agent, and not an accounting firm. We certify nothing and sign nothing.
It files nothing on your behalf. It prepares; you, or your accountant, approve.
It will get things wrong. That's why every output carries its confidence level, and why a red blocks the pack.
The rulebook will be reviewed by an FTA-registered professional before it goes on sale.
Waiting list
Your UAE tax deadlines, starting now
We're not announcing a date: an agent that touches tax ships when it's safe. In the meantime, tell us where you stand and you'll get the calendar of your obligations for the next twelve months.
Target price: AED 799, paid once. It isn't final, measuring that is part of what this list is for.
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