Why you cannot skip this

Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025, amended by Ministerial Resolution No. 56 of 2026, obliges every taxable person to appoint a service provider accredited by the Ministry of Finance. Without one your invoice does not reach your customer or the tax authority, however correct the file is.

This is the single biggest difference with e-invoicing in Europe. There, being reachable over Peppol is usually enough. Here, your access point must hold UAE accreditation.

What accreditation does and does not prove

It proves the provider has been assessed against the ministry's technical, security and interoperability requirements, and may operate on the UAE network.

It does not prove anything about price, service quality, or whether the provider also sells invoicing software. Most of the register is middleware, ERP platforms and accountancy firms — they connect the system you already use.

Accredited or pre-approved?

The register distinguishes two states. Accredited means fully cleared and operating today. Pre-approved means an initial review has been passed and full accreditation is still in progress. Both appear on the official list; only the first is finished.

You can search the full register, with its retrieval date, on our provider list.

Questions worth asking

  1. Are you accredited today, or pre-approved? If pre-approved, when do you expect accreditation?
  2. Do you connect to the software I already use, and at what cost?
  3. Who reports to the Federal Tax Authority — you, or do I need to do anything?
  4. What happens when the system fails? A recipient who does not notify the authority of a failure faces AED 1,000 per day.
  5. What does it cost per invoice, and is there a minimum?

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