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E-invoicing: the ASP appointment deadline for AED 50 million+ businesses is 30 October 2026#
Ministerial Decision No. 66 of 2026 set 30 October 2026 as the last date to appoint an accredited service provider, with go-live unchanged at 1 January 2027. Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025 fines a late appointment AED 5,000 for each month or part of a month. Businesses under AED 50 million appoint by 31 March 2027.
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Ministerial Decision No. 197 of 2026: e-invoice data no longer has to stay in the UAE#
Effective from 1 October 2026, it amends Ministerial Decision No. 243 of 2025. E-invoices and credit notes must still be kept for the Tax Procedures Law period and produced to the FTA on request, but the UAE storage requirement is removed. The two-business-day system failure notice is repealed, and transactions between members of the same tax group are excluded for 24 months from 1 January 2027.
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Five weeks left to appoint an e-invoicing service provider if revenue is AED 50 million or more#
The Ministry of Finance moved the appointment deadline from 31 July to 30 October 2026 in May. It did not move go-live: businesses in the first phase must be issuing e-invoices through their provider from 1 January 2027. Signing in late October leaves about two months for onboarding and testing.
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Appoint your accredited service provider before the e-invoicing window opens#
The Peppol-based system runs through an accredited service provider, and onboarding takes longer than most finance teams plan for: master data, TRN validation and a test exchange all have to pass first.
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