Within the framework of the Abu Dhabi Councils’ lectures at the Presidential Court, the Federal Tax Authority held an awareness session directly via the Instagram platform through the Abu Dhabi Councils channel on the mechanism for citizens to recover the value-added tax paid by them on the construction of their new homes.
The session was held via remote “visual communication” technology, and was broadcast directly through the Abu Dhabi Majlis channel via the Instagram platform, in which many female citizens and citizens, and a specialized team from the Federal Tax Authority, participated, during which the service of refunding value-added tax incurred on the construction of housing was explained. newly built citizens.
During the session, the steps for recovery were clarified through the authority’s electronic services portal, starting from submitting the refund request with supporting documents until the citizen received the refund amount by transferring it to the applicant’s bank account after informing him of the final approval.
During the session, the authority’s specialized team clarified all matters related to the criteria for submitting an application for a refund of the value-added tax paid on the construction of newly constructed citizens’ homes, how to create an electronic services account (new user), confirming the applicant’s electronic services account, creating a special refund requests account, and submitting a request. Tax refund for the new residence, how to review the status of the application, who is eligible to claim tax refund for the new residence, the refundable tax and the period during which the refund application should be submitted. The documents to be submitted with the application.
He pointed out that the authority follows up all the proposals received from its customers and gives them great attention, and if they relate to applicable development measures, they will be responded to, as the past period witnessed continuous development of the value-added tax refund mechanism for building new citizens’ homes by providing more facilities, after consulting with Concerned citizens, where their observations and opinions were listened to to develop the mechanism, and they were taken into consideration from their actual experience, as part of the Authority’s approach to involving stakeholders in the development processes that are being implemented on a permanent basis for tax systems.
He explained that, as of last year, an amendment was made with a new facility to increase the period specified for submitting the recovery request to the authority to be within 12 months instead of 6 months as it was previously from the date of completion of the newly built housing, which is the date earlier than the date of occupancy of the housing, or the date of approval and approval of its completion. From the competent authority in the country (certificate of completion of the building / housing).
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