Deadlines and penalties

Your two dates, how long you actually have, and what it costs if you miss them — including the exemption most companies have not noticed.

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Your situation

The threshold that decides your wave is AED 50 million.

Does anything here apply to you?

A penalty needs a breach, and a breach needs facts. This tool will not put a number against your name until you have entered some. Leave everything at zero and you will see the statutory rates and nothing more — which, for most companies reading this today, is the correct answer.

Not your invoice volume — only the ones that should have gone through the system and did not. If your date has not arrived, this is zero.
Counted separately, with its own cap.
Zero if this has not happened. Issuer and recipient are separate obligations.
Address, licence, authorised signatory. Zero if this has not happened.

Your dates

What non-compliance costs

Under Cabinet Decision 106 of 2025. These are separate penalties and they run concurrently, not as alternatives. Three of them carry monthly caps of AED 5,000 each, so the recurring ceiling is AED 15,000 a month — AED 180,000 a year — before the daily notification penalties are counted.

Where the time goes

The dates above are when you must be finished. The work that decides whether you make them is not choosing a provider — that takes a week — it is getting your own data into a state the format accepts. Classification of your catalogue, tax numbers collected from your counterparties, transaction type flags configured from decisions your adviser has confirmed.

That is measured in weeks of correspondence, and it cannot be compressed by starting later and working harder.

Send an extract and see how big your gap is · or check your catalogue in your browser first

The voluntary-phase exemption

Article 2(2) excludes voluntary issuers from the penalty regime entirely. If you begin issuing electronic invoices before your mandatory date, the penalties in this decision do not apply to you during that voluntary window. In practice this covers the riskiest phase — the first months, when your data is still settling and rejections are frequent — with no administrative penalty attached to a rejection. Read that narrowly: the exclusion covers the penalties in this decision and nothing else. VAT, contractual, integration and remediation obligations continue throughout, and so do their costs. Going live early is cheaper in penalties, not free of work.

Sources and caveats

ItemSource
Wave dates and thresholds Ministry of Finance e-invoicing programme timetable
Penalty amounts Cabinet Decision 106 of 2025, verified against the published text
Voluntary exemption Article 2(2) of the same decision
Provider list Ministry of Finance register, 42 entries at 23 July 2026. The page is titled pre-approved, which is the Article 15 stage: baseline eligibility. Full accreditation under Article 16 follows separate testing, and providers are at different stages — some publish an accreditation number, others do not. Check the status of the specific provider you are considering rather than assuming.
This is arithmetic, not advice. Penalty exposure in a real case depends on facts this tool does not know — whether a failure was notified, how long it persisted, and whether the authority treats a period as one breach or several. Treat the figures as an order of magnitude for deciding how much to spend on avoiding them.

Sources

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