Maktoum bin Mohammed reviews the development plans for… "Federal tax" He directs the continued expansion of services supported by artificial intelligence technologies

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Dubai, 13 February / WAM / His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Tax Authority, chaired the meeting of the Authority’s Board of Directors, and His Highness was briefed on the developments of the Authority’s plans to continue developing its operational systems and services, to expand digital transformation, adopt highly efficient business models, and provide proactive services to contribute to the continuous improvement of the quality of life, in implementation of the directives of The wise leadership aims to enhance the role of the tax system to support financial sustainability in order to consolidate the global competitiveness of the UAE.

During the meeting, the Authority’s strategic plan for artificial intelligence was reviewed, where His Highness directed the continued expansion of reliance on artificial intelligence technologies to improve and raise the efficiency of operational processes, and to provide more procedural facilities with tax services supported by artificial intelligence.

His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum reviewed the results and performance indicators of the Authority during the past period and its operational and development plans for the next stage. His Highness praised the continued high performance rates and the effective role played by the Authority in contributing to the implementation of policies to diversify the national economy, through managing and collecting federal taxes in accordance with international best practices.

During the meeting, a report was reviewed on the achievements of the Federal Tax Authority and developments in existing projects, which showed that the number of those registered in the corporate tax rose to about 710,000 registrants, the number of those registered in the value-added tax also increased to about 573,000 registrants, the number of those registered in the selective tax reached 1,767 registrants, and the number of tax agents reached 899 agents.

The report indicated that the authority approved new requests from citizens who recovered the tax they paid for the construction of their newly constructed homes, worth 94.44 million dirhams, during the months of December 2025 and January 2026.

He explained that the Authority continued to achieve distinguished results in the field of zeroing out the bureaucracy, and carried out 75 zeroing operations during the second cycle of the “Draining the Digital Bureaucracy” program, compared to implementing 29 zeroing operations in the first cycle of the program, while it uploaded all operations on the “Zeroing the Bureaucracy” platform, in addition to uploading the supporting evidence amounting to more than 1,500 pieces of evidence for all the zeroing operations that were implemented.

Also, the latest developments in the integrated tax system “Emirates Tax” and the procedures for electronic linking between the authority’s systems and the concerned authorities were reviewed for further facilitation of voluntary tax compliance procedures, the developments in the implementation of the draft supplementary tax law (the second pillar project), and the implementation of the electronic invoicing project that is being implemented in cooperation between the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority, as part of government efforts to adopt digital innovation, which contributes to enhancing voluntary tax compliance electronically with safe and effective mechanisms, by simplifying and unifying Automating billing processes, through an electronic system that complies with best practices, allows immediate exchange and ensures the submission of smoother tax reports to the Authority, which contributes to achieving further improvement in customer experiences.