GTL Summary:

Article 61 specifies the instances where a Registrant must adjust their Output Tax after the supply date. These include: cancellation of the supply, a change in the supply's tax treatment, an alteration of the previously agreed consideration, the return of goods or services, or an error in charging tax. To perform an adjustment, specific conditions must be met, primarily that the Output Tax amount on the Tax Invoice, or as reported in a Tax Return, does not match the tax that should have been charged following one of the specified events. The article also provides a specific exclusion for place-of-supply reclassifications under Article 27.

Document Type: Tax Law Article
Law: VAT (FDL No 8 of 2017, as amended)
Article Number: 61
Country: 🇦🇪 UAE
Location: Title 7 - Calculation of Due Tax › Chapter 4 - Adjustment of Tax after the Supply Date
Order: 61
Last updated at: 2025-12-26 14:13:51 UTC

Title 7 - Calculation of Due Tax

Chapter 4 - Adjustment of Tax after the Supply Date

Article 61
Instances and Conditions for Output Tax Adjustments[26]

  1. A Registrant shall adjust Output Tax after the date of supply in any of the following instances:

    1. If the supply was cancelled.

    2. If the Tax treatment of the supply has changed due to a change in the nature of the supply.

    3. If the previously agreed Consideration for the supply was altered for any reason.

    4. If the Recipient of Goods or Recipient of Services returned them to the Registrant in full or in part and the Consideration was returned in full or in part.

    5. If the Tax was charged [or Tax treatment] [G43] was applied in error.

  2. Paragraph (e) of Clause 1 of this Article shall not apply where the place of supply was treated by the supplier at the date of supply as being subject to Clause 1 of Article 27 of this Decree-Law, but, as a result of a movement of the Goods, it transpired that the place of supply should have been subject to Sub-Paragraph 1 of Paragraph (b) of Clause 3 of the same Article.

  3. In order to adjust the Output Tax any of the following conditions shall be met:

    1. If the Output Tax amount charged on the supply stated in the Tax Invoice does not match the Tax that should actually be charged on the supply as a result of any of the events mentioned in Clause 1 of this Article.

    2. If the Registrant submits a Tax Return for the Tax Period during which the supply occurred and an amount was incorrectly calculated as being the amount of Output Tax due for this supply as the result of any of the events mentioned in Clause 1 of this Article.

Footnotes

[26]Article amended as per Federal Decree-Law No. 18 of 2022.

GTL Notes

[G43] Inserted by Federal Decree-Law No. 18 of 2022 effective from 1 January 2023

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