UAE receives over 3.2M VAT refund applications for tourists in 2019

More than 300,000 individuals and tax groups have registered for value-added taxes in the two years since the system was put in place, according to the UAE’s Federal Tax Authority (FTA). In a statement marking two years since VAT came into force on January 1, 2018, the FTA also said a total of 3.2 million electric tax refund applications for tourists had been received by the end of 2019.