UAE e-invoicing deadlines: 2026 and 2027 timeline

Dates in circulars are easy to nod at and easy to miss. Here they are in one list, with who they apply to and what each one actually asks you to do.

The timeline

1. 1 July 2026 — any revenue. Voluntary pilot: you may start exchanging e-invoices before your mandatory date.
2. 30 October 2026 — revenue of AED 50 million or more. Appoint an Accredited Service Provider. This date was extended from an earlier July 2026 date by Ministerial Resolution No. 66 of 2026.
3. 1 January 2027 — revenue of AED 50 million or more. Go live: in-scope invoices must travel as e-invoices.
4. 31 March 2027 — revenue below AED 50 million, and government entities. Appoint an Accredited Service Provider.
5. 1 July 2027 — revenue below AED 50 million. Go live.
6. 1 October 2027 — government entities. Go live.

These six dates are the ones on the Ministry of Finance portal timeline as of this review. The large-revenue ASP date has already moved once. Treat the portal, not a screenshot of an old slide, as the source.

What “appoint an ASP” means

Appointing an Accredited Service Provider is a contract and a connection, not a software install on the day. You pick a provider from the Ministry's pre-approved list, agree how you will hand over invoice data, and become able to send and receive on the Peppol network. The Accredited Service Provider guide explains what they do and what they do not do. The appointment date is the latest day that step should be finished, not the day you start looking.

What “go live” means

Go live means in-scope invoices — B2B, B2G, G2B, G2G — are issued as e-invoices through your provider. A PDF emailed to a customer is not enough on that day. Consumer invoices stay outside until the portal says otherwise. If you have mixed sales, the live date applies to the in-scope ones.

A ready-by plan for a small business

If you are under AED 50 million, you have more calendar time than the large-revenue phase, and less spare attention. Use it in three blocks. Now: put legal name, address, emirate, tax numbers, customers and products in one place, and issue invoices that already carry those details. By the end of 2026: every invoice you keep should have a buyer address and a VAT category on each line, so you are not cleaning years of files in one quarter. In the first quarter of 2027: choose the Accredited Service Provider and finish the appointment by 31 March 2027, then go live on 1 July 2027.

If a large customer asks you to exchange early, you can join the voluntary window on 1 July 2026 without waiting for your mandatory date.

If dates move

The ≥ AED 50 million ASP date was already extended once, to 30 October 2026, by Ministerial Resolution No. 66 of 2026. Dates can move again. This page will be wrong the day the portal updates and we have not re-read it. Before you brief a partner or a bank, open the Ministry of Finance e-invoicing portal and check the timeline there.

How Fatura Sahla helps

Nothing to install before a date. The records are already in shape when the ASP step comes.

We meet you where you are, and get you e-invoice-ready with near-zero overhead.

• Your sales live in notebooks, spreadsheets and sales people in the field

  Photograph the paper, import the sheet, or type it in. Every path ends in one complete record, checked in plain words.

• A computer, a smartphone, a tablet, or a simple phone with WhatsApp

  Works in the browser and on Android and iPhone. Send an invoice photo to WhatsApp and get the finished PDF back in the chat.

• A team that reads English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, or a mix of them

  The app, the WhatsApp replies and every check speak all four. Invoices print in English or Arabic, whatever the team uses.

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Fatura Sahla helps you get ready. It is not an Accredited Service Provider and does not send invoices to the Federal Tax Authority. This article is general information, not tax advice.

Last reviewed September 14, 2026