Mumbai · Delhi · Bengaluru · Pune · Kolkata
GCC · Under development · UAE · Saudi · Qatar · Bahrain · Oman

VAT for the Gulf,
in active development.

Farvision's VAT counterpart for the GCC is being built right now. Same architecture as farvisiongst.com — integrated to the ERP, vertical-specialist for real estate, vendor-compliance protection, structured reconciliation, real-time e-invoicing where mandated. Adapted for GCC regulatory specifics: ZATCA's Fatoora in Saudi Arabia, the FTA's e-invoicing programme in the UAE, the standardised VAT return formats across the member states. We're shipping it the way we shipped GST — alongside customers, listening to month-end finance teams, vertical-deep before vertical-wide.

§ 01
The countries
Five member states · five regulatory regimes

The Gulf isn't
a single market.

Each GCC member state has its own VAT regime — different rates, different return formats, different e-invoicing mandates, different non-resident registration rules, different filing schedules. The headline architecture is shared (5% standard rate across the GCC, common framework agreement), but the operational details aren't. Farvision's product approach mirrors how Farvision's verticals work in the GCC already — country-aware, with the right configuration for each regulatory environment, and a single integration point with the ERP so the finance team isn't running five separate platforms.
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UAE · 5% VAT

United Arab Emirates

FTA e-invoicing mandate rolling out · phased adoption from 2026 · TRN-based tax registration · standard 5% VAT rate.

UAE pilot · Q3 2026
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KSA · 15% VAT

Saudi Arabia

ZATCA Fatoora e-invoicing live · Phase 2 integration mandatory for waves of taxpayers · 15% standard VAT rate · QR code on every invoice.

KSA pilot · Q1 2027
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Qatar · 0% (not yet)

Qatar

VAT framework adopted · implementation date pending · we're building for the architecture so customers are ready when activation comes.

Stage 2 · framework ready
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Bahrain · 10% VAT

Bahrain

VAT live since 2019 · standard 10% rate (raised from 5% in 2022) · NBR portal integration · quarterly filing for most taxpayers.

Stage 2 · Q2 2027
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Oman · 5% VAT

Oman

VAT live since 2021 · 5% standard rate · OTA portal · quarterly returns · real estate exemptions for residential lease specific to handle.

Stage 2 · Q3 2027
§ 02
The roadmap
From foundation to filing · the build sequence

Four stages.
One year at a time.

We're not going to release a half-finished product across all five countries simultaneously. We're going to do what we did with India in 2017 — pick the highest-mandate country first, build deep, then carry the architecture across. UAE is the natural starting point because the FTA's e-invoicing programme is the closest mandate to what we've already built for India's IRP. Saudi Arabia follows because ZATCA's Fatoora is the most regulated GCC e-invoicing regime. Qatar, Bahrain, Oman come in stage 2 with the architecture proven.
Stage · 0

Architecture from India

Re-use farvisiongst.com architecture · auto-flow from ERP · vendor compliance · 4-bucket reconciliation · real-time IRN/QR code.

▸ DONE · 2017–2026
Stage · 1

UAE · FTA e-invoicing

UAE TRN integration · FTA e-invoicing connector · TRN-based vendor checks · UAE VAT 201 return generator · pilot with 3 customers.

▸ IN BUILD · Q3 2026
Stage · 2

Saudi Arabia · ZATCA Fatoora

ZATCA Phase 2 integration · cryptographic stamping · QR per invoice · Saudi VAT return automation · Arabic / English bilingual.

Q1 2027
Stage · 3

Qatar · Bahrain · Oman

Three states on shared architecture · NBR Bahrain · OTA Oman · framework ready for Qatar activation when announced.

2027 onwards
§ 03
The architecture
The four pillars carry across

Same architecture.
Different regulatory regimes.

The four pillars of farvisiongst.com map directly onto the GCC: always-ready data flowing from the ERP, vendor compliance protection on TRN-registered suppliers, structured reconciliation on the GCC's input-VAT statements, real-time e-invoicing wherever the regulator mandates it. The reconfiguration work isn't on the architecture — it's on the country-specific regulatory specifics: which return form, which e-invoicing standard, which non-resident rule, which exemption for residential real estate, which language requirement.
▸ The four pillars · already proven in India

Carried across the Gulf, one country at a time.

Nine years operating farvisiongst.com under India's GST regime taught us what real estate finance teams actually need from a tax compliance platform. The four-pillar architecture isn't theory — it's the structure that nine years of customer feedback shaped. We're not redesigning it for the GCC. We're carrying it across, one regulatory regime at a time, with the country-specific configuration that each state's authority requires.

Pillar 1 · Always-ready data
Auto-flow from Farvision ERP

Every booking demand, vendor invoice, RA bill auto-uploads to the GCC tax portal in real time — no monthly export-import.

Pillar 2 · Vendor TRN compliance
Payment hold for non-filing suppliers

Vendor TRN status checked at invoice posting · payment held for VAT amount until vendor files · ITC stays safe.

Pillar 3 · Reconciliation
Country-specific input VAT recon

Four-bucket reconciliation adapted per state — UAE FTA, KSA ZATCA, Bahrain NBR, Oman OTA · same operational structure.

Pillar 4 · Real-time e-invoicing
Country e-invoicing connector

FTA e-invoicing for UAE · ZATCA Fatoora for KSA · same connector pattern, country-specific compliance specifics.

Get involved

Be a design-partner
customer.

The fastest path to a product that fits how a real-estate finance team in the Gulf actually files VAT is to build it alongside the team that'll use it. We're inviting design-partner customers across the five GCC member states to shape the product roadmap. UAE first, KSA close behind, then Qatar/Bahrain/Oman. Tell us where you're filing, what's hurting at month-end, and what your existing tax stack looks like — we'll show you what we have, what we're building, and where you fit in.