Is this an FTA filing?

No. The report says so on screen. It prepares the boxes and the invoice list; you file on the FTA portal.

How do I handle a reverse-charge customer?

Tick Apply RCM on the invoice. It is boxed as RCM and summed under Reverse charge, not under standard rated.

Where does input tax on fuel come from?

From the supplier bills that credit fuel creates for the station, and from any supplier or purchase bill you record with a tax rate.

Can the auditor see the invoices behind a box?

Yes. The report lists every invoice in the period with its box, and each box drills down.

What about TDS and other tax reports?

Customer and supplier TDS, RCM and tax reports sit next to the VAT 201 in the finance reports.

Is it included in the price?

Yes. All finance reports are part of every plan.

UAE VAT 201

UAE VAT for transport companies: the VAT 201 built from your invoices

Standard-rated freight, zero-rated exports, reverse charge on certain customers and suppliers, input tax on fuel and hired trucks. NShine ERP tags each invoice as you raise it and sums the boxes for the period, with the voucher list behind each one.

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What the VAT 201 needs from a transport business

The return asks for the same handful of totals every period. For a transporter they come from hundreds of small documents: freight invoices to customers, bills from truck owners, fuel station bills, garage bills. Getting them wrong usually means one of these:

A reverse-charge customer billed as standard rated
A zero-rated international movement counted as taxable
Input tax on fuel bills left out because the bills were never recorded
A total with no invoice list behind it when the auditor asks

How each box is built

Box on the 201	What NShine ERP sums	Where it comes from
Standard rated supplies	Taxable amount and tax on customer invoices at the standard rate	Customer Invoice with a standard tax rate
Zero-rated supplies	Taxable amount on customer invoices at 0%	Customer Invoice with a zero rate
Exempt supplies	Taxable amount on exempt customer invoices	Customer Invoice with an exempt rate
Input tax	Taxable amount and tax on supplier and purchase bills	Supplier Invoice, Purchase Invoice, station bills from credit fuel
Reverse charge	Taxable amounts on invoices with Apply RCM ticked	Customer and Supplier Invoice → Apply RCM
Reverse charge expenses	RCM on expense-side bills	Supplier bills with Apply RCM
Net VAT payable	Output tax less input tax	Computed

Under the boxes, the report lists every invoice in the period with date, voucher number, party, box (OUTPUT_STANDARD, OUTPUT_ZERO, INPUT, RCM), taxable amount and tax. Each box drills down to its invoices. Export xlsx or print PDF for the accountant.

A period, worked through

For any period the report reads like this. Standard-rated customer invoices with their taxable amount and the tax on it. Zero-rated invoices with no tax. Reverse-charge customer invoices with tax nil. Input bills from suppliers, such as fuel stations, at their rate. Net VAT payable at the bottom. Every invoice counted in a box is in the list below the boxes, with its voucher number.

That is the whole return, and it took a date range and a Search.

What to set up once

Your tax rates: standard, zero, exempt

Your TRN, and each customer's and supplier's TRN on their record

Which customers and suppliers are reverse charge, so Apply RCM is ticked on their invoices

Credit fuel marked Not Paid, so station bills exist as input

From invoice to return

Raise each customer invoice from its bookings with the right tax rate; tick Apply RCM for reverse-charge customers.
Record supplier and purchase bills with their tax rate; credit fuel creates station bills on its own.
Open UAE VAT 201, set the period, Search.
Check the boxes against the invoice list; drill into anything that looks off.
Export xlsx or PDF and file on the FTA portal.

Transport businesses that run on NShine ERP