UAE e-invoicing 2027: what our business customers need to know

Grand Welding Solutions LLC · November 2026

The UAE is introducing an electronic invoicing system for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government invoices. Invoices will no longer be just PDFs: they are sent as structured data through accredited service providers and reported to the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). Here is a short overview for our customers – please check the official decisions of the Ministry of Finance for your own company.

Timeline

Business-to-consumer (B2C) sales are outside the system for now.

How an invoice travels – the five-corner model

1. The seller creates the invoice in its own accounting or invoicing software.
2. The seller's Accredited Service Provider (ASP) checks it against the UAE standard (Peppol PINT AE) and sends it over the Peppol network.
3. The buyer's ASP receives and checks it.
4. The buyer receives the structured invoice in its system.
5. Both providers report the tax data to the FTA in parallel.

Businesses do not upload invoices to a government portal themselves, and their invoicing software does not need its own government approval – the ASP is the accredited part. Corrections are made with credit notes, not by editing a sent invoice. Records must still be kept as required by the Tax Procedures Law (generally five years).

What this means when you buy from GWS

• We must know your exact legal name, TRN, trade licence, address and contacts, and later your Peppol ID – so we register every business customer once with our KYC form.
• Registered customers sign in with their GWS CS code; new companies fill in the form online with their first order at shop.grandws.com.
• Your tax invoices will reach you through the e-invoicing network once the system is live for us, and you can always see copies in our customer portal.

Sources: Ministry of Finance Ministerial Decisions No. 243 and 244 of 2025 and their amendment; summaries by KPMG UAE and Khaleej Times.