Run your United Arab Emirates business on one platform — with VAT handled properly.
VAT at 5% computed on every line, TRN validation, and invoices carrying the particulars the law requires. Alongside the clients, projects, people and field teams that produced the invoice in the first place.
What Grovia does for a business in United Arab Emirates
The tax engine is not a rate field bolted onto a template. It is cited to the legislation and shared by every document the platform prints.
VAT that is actually computed
Every line carries its own rate and the totals are worked out for you. Set 0% where a supply is zero-rated or exempt and Grovia records which, because the two are not interchangeable at your year end.
TRN validation
Fifteen digits. Grovia checks the shape and stops there. The claim that digit twelve is a check digit traces only to uncited web content and never to an FTA document, so validating against it would reject real, valid tax numbers.
Invoices that carry what the law asks for
A sequential number, both parties' details, your TRN, the rate and amount per line and the tax total — the particulars Cabinet Decision No. 52 of 2017 sets out, printed without you assembling them.
Nothing is assumed from an address
A customer being overseas does not make a supply zero-rated, and Grovia never pretends otherwise. Place of supply turns on facts software cannot see, so the decision stays yours and the record shows you made it.
The rest of the business, same platform
Clients, quotes, projects, tasks, staff, payroll, expenses, support tickets and field visits. The invoice is the end of a workflow that already lives here, not an export into something else.
On the phone as well
Grovia Chat for the team, Grovia Field for people on site with GPS check-ins and photo reports, and GroAI for asking your own numbers a question in plain English.
Working today
- VAT at the standard rate, applied per line item
- Tax invoices carrying the particulars set out in Article 59 of the Executive Regulation
- Credit notes cited to Article 70 of the Decree-Law and Article 60 of the Executive Regulation — two provisions people routinely conflate
- Credit notes showing the value of the supply on the tax invoice, the correct value, the difference and the VAT on it, as Article 60(1)(e) requires — a later credit note starting from what the earlier ones left
- Dirham amounts on an invoice in another currency — every line, both totals and the VAT, with the rate — as Article 59(1)(h), (j) and (k) of the Executive Regulation require
- The date of supply, printed when it differs from the invoice date, and a warning — never a refusal — when a tax invoice is issued more than fourteen days after it, the deadline Article 67(1) sets
- TRN validation on your own registration and on your customers'
- Quotes, purchase orders and receipts in dirhams
- Zero-rated and exempt lines, when you set them — never guessed from a customer's address
Invoices are issued citing Article 65 of Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on Value Added Tax, and in accordance with Article 59 of Cabinet Decision No. 52 of 2017 on the Executive Regulation of Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on Value Added Tax (as amended).
Not handled yet — worth knowing before you sign up
We would rather you read this now than find it after you have paid. If any of the below is central to how you bill, Grovia is not the right fit for that part of your work yet.
Payroll follows Indian rules
Grovia's payroll prices basic pay, HRA and a percentage provident fund the Indian way. It does not accrue end-of-service gratuity, calculate GPSSA pension contributions for UAE and GCC nationals, or produce a Wage Protection System salary file. The payroll screen says this and asks you to acknowledge it before it generates anything.
Your data is not held in the UAE
Grovia runs from Mumbai, so a UAE company's records sit in India at rest, and any GroAI feature sends data further still. The PDPL has applied since 2 January 2022 and limits sending personal data out of the country. Its Executive Regulations, which are to set the controls for those transfers, have not yet been issued, and no list of countries the Data Office approves has been published, so we will not describe Grovia as compliant with it. If your data must stay in the Emirates, this is the thing to weigh before anything else on this page.
Exchange rates are not checked
Grovia prints the dirham amounts at the rate you enter and does not check it against the Central Bank rate at the date of supply that Article 69 names. A recurring or renewal invoice starts from its parent invoice's rate, which you should confirm for the new supply.
Credit notes in another currency from their invoice
The values Article 60(1)(e) requires subtract a credit note from its tax invoice, which cannot be done across two currencies, so Grovia refuses a credit note in a different currency from its invoice. That article does not say which exchange rate a foreign-currency credit note's dirham figures should use; Grovia uses the rate you enter on the credit note.
Corporate tax
Grovia handles VAT. It does not compute UAE corporate tax, maintain the adjustments that return needs, or produce anything you could file for it.
Not your country?
Start with your own invoices
Set your country to United Arab Emirates during setup and everything above applies from the first document you raise.
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