{"id":197275,"date":"2018-07-11T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=197275"},"modified":"2018-07-12T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T18:09:08","slug":"uae-approves-tax-refund-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-approves-tax-refund-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE approves tax refund to tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi \u2013 The United Arab Emirates government has approved a refund system of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) to tourists. The information was published this Thursday (11) by the <em>Emirates News Agency (WAM)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The news outlet reported that the system will be adopted in this year\u2019s Q4. The goal is to boost tourism growth, an important source of revenues to the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to WAM, tourism accounted for 11.3% of UAE\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017, or AED 154.1 billion (USD 42 billion). Last year, the country\u2019s airports registered a passenger flow of 123 million.<\/p>\n<p>The tax on the consumption of goods and services was implemented this year by the UAE, as a way of offsetting the loss of revenues caused by the drop in oil prices and controlling the public accounts. Upon adopting a refund system for non-resident foreigners, the UAE is taking a similar approach to other countries that receive tourists in great numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-197272\">Karim Sahib\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A refund system of the value-added tax on goods and services will be implemented in this year\u2019s Q4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":197272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[28575,3734,433,228,2650,3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-197275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-emirados-arabes-unidos-en","9":"tag-taxes","10":"tag-tourism","11":"tag-uae","12":"tag-united-arab-emirates","13":"tag-vat"},"wps_subtitle":"A refund system of the value-added tax on goods and services will be implemented in this year\u2019s Q4.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}