VAT in the UAE
For the past few months, the head (Sheikh) of UAE has announced that the country will commence imposing tax on value-added goods starting from January 2018. This kind of tax is called VAT, which is one of many kinds of indirect taxes. First, Let's define what VAT actually means. VAT is an acronym for value-added tax and is imposed on every value-added goods. The word value-added is, to an extent, self-explanatory but it is more complex than it actually sounds. For every stage in the chain of production, the tax is levied because the same amount of percentage is keep adds on until it is at the distribution stage, where it is actually sold. Therefore, it is obvious that most kinds of food are exempted. Drugs-only those essential ones-are also exempted because they are, along with food, viewed as necessities in our living. Economists refer goods such as food and drugs which are exempted from VAT as zero-rated. Now, lets have a look at the situation in detail. This introduction to...