How it works
Not a search box that hands you ten documents, and not a chatbot answering from memory. FinTaxIQ - TI reads the way a good adviser reads.
Ask in your own words
“Can we reclaim VAT on staff housing?” The law says “input tax”, “employees” and “personal benefit” — FinTaxIQ - TI matches the meaning, not only the words, in English and Arabic.
It finds the governing article
It searches the legislation first, and follows the FTA's own citations: when a guide points to Article 53 of the Executive Regulation, FinTaxIQ - TI opens that article and brings it to the answer.
The answer is checked, then shown
Every citation must resolve to a provision FinTaxIQ - TI holds. If one does not, the answer is withheld rather than shown with a warning.
What comes back
A question a Dubai finance team asked on 12 September, and FinTaxIQ - TI's answer — unedited.
Because you charge the engineers AED 500 a month, the block in Article 53(1)(c) for goods given to employees for no charge does not apply. This is a supply of accommodation for consideration, so recovery turns on whether that supply is taxable, and on the usual conditions in Article 55.1 2 3
The rule
- Input tax on goods or services given to employees free of charge for their personal benefit is blocked, subject to four listed exceptions.1
- Input tax is recoverable to the extent the goods and services are used to make taxable supplies.2
Confirm in your facts
- Whether the AED 500 recharge is treated as a taxable or an exempt supply.
- That you hold tax invoices for the rent and the DEWA charges.
1. Input Tax shall be non-recoverable if it is incurred by a Person in the following cases: c. Where Goods or Services were purchased to be used by employees for no charge to them and for their personal benefit, except in the following cases: 1) Where it is a legal obligation to provide those Services or Goods to those employees under any applicable labour law in the State or Designated Zone.
What FinTaxIQ - TI holds
A research tool is only as honest as its boundaries, so here they are. These figures are read from the corpus itself, not written by hand.
Both languages, kept apart
An Arabic question is answered in Arabic from the Arabic texts. Nothing is machine-translated: the Arabic is the authoritative version, and a translated snippet that reads like a citation is a liability.
Current editions only
Superseded law is kept for the record and never served as current — so an answer cannot quietly rest on the 2018 VAT text.
It refuses rather than guesses
No case law, no unpublished FTA practice, and no reasoning borrowed from UK, EU, Saudi or Indian rules. Where the material does not settle a question, FinTaxIQ - TI says so.
More depth when it matters
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