"Federal Taxes" introduced more facilities to simplify the recovery process

4984 approved requests to recover the "tax" for building citizens' homes in 9 months

Khaled Ali Al-Bustani: “Reducing audit requirements on refund requests based on the cooperation of the concerned authorities in providing confirmations of support for requests.”

The Federal Tax Authority revealed that the total number of applications approved by it to recover the value-added tax paid on the construction of newly constructed citizens’ homes increased to 9,640 completed requests until the end of September 2021, an increase of more than 107.1% during the first nine months of 2021, compared to the total number of requests approved until the end of 2020.

The authority explained, in a press statement issued yesterday, that the official statistics show that the number of approved requests for citizens who recovered the tax they paid on building their new homes during the first nine months of this year exceeded 4,984 requests, compared to 3,147 completed requests during the year 2020, and compared to 1,399 requests that were completed. completed in 2019, and 110 applications were completed in 2018, which witnessed the beginning of the application of the tax refund mechanism paid for the construction of newly constructed citizens’ homes.

The Director-General of the Federal Tax Authority, Khaled Ali Al-Bustani, attributed the continuous growth in the number of citizens benefiting from the tax refund mechanism paid for the construction of newly constructed citizens’ homes, to the increased awareness of the refund mechanism, and the continuous development and modernization processes implemented by the authority on the mechanism since its inception, by introducing more Among the facilities to simplify and speed up the steps for refunding citizens who meet the legal conditions for tax refund through the authority’s website, with the aim of making citizens happy, in implementation of the leadership’s vision to develop a modern housing system for citizens and provide the best standards of life.

Al-Bustani added that the authority launched, during the last period, the electronic platform to recover value-added tax on the construction of newly constructed citizens’ homes, in light of the continuous review of the executive procedures of tax legislation to facilitate procedures. Working to ease audit requirements on refund requests, based on the cooperation of the concerned authorities with the authority by providing the necessary assurances to support the requests.

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