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10 Tools To Create Powerful Animation Videos

31/10/2018

Brand Marketing has become a necessity in today’s digital world where every brand is expected to showcase its value through improvised strategies of exposure on social media besides traditional advertising space. One such tool is video based marketing through social media tools such as YouTube. 

There are a variety of ways to connect with your brand’s subscribers and your videos must have a lasting impact in the minds of the audience. One such effective medium to tell your story through videos is Animation. 

Animation videos are not just used for brand advertising today. Companies are using Animation videos for their product demos, training and ex plainer videos

What is Animation?

Animation is a production technique to make moving images from individually drawn frames. The technique of Animation has come a long way from hand-drawn and rendered frames to include stop-motion and digitally drawn or rendered frames. Any Animation that recorded using the video as medium becomes an Animation video. 


A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames. Cartoons on television is one example of animation. Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. There are many software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a computer monitor.


Note the difference between animation and video. Whereas video takes continuous motion and breaks it up into discrete frames, animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.

Webopedia

Benefits from Animation Videos

  • Animation videos can convey complex information in the most simplest manner possible
  • Tell your story without hassles of lengthy production schedules or expensive budgets that otherwise require for a regular video
  • Animation videos give us the option of flexibility in terms of cost
  • Differentiate your Brand from competitors by making maxim impact
  • Enjoy the High Conversion rates through videos that actually sell
  • Improve customer engagement
  • Use it for How -To videos of your products and services
  • Expand your reach

10+ Tools To Easily Create Animation Videos

Doodly

Doodly

Doodly is a professional Animation video creation software that allows anyone with or without technical or design skills to create stunning animation videos in minutes. My favorite feature is the functionality to create videos in three different boards, white board, black board and glass board with the click of a button. 

Doodly is a hybrid application that installs on a desktop compatible with both windows and Mac but requires an internet connection to fetch your saved projects and images from its cloud.

The application comes with thousands of animated images and background audio tracks to choose from and we can upload our own images, fonts and audio.  Doodly can create videos in 24-60 frames and 360 – 1080 HD resolutions. It has a 30-day money back guarantee and most important, you can create unlimited videos.

Doodly – Easily Create Whiteboard Doodle Videos In Minutes!

Doodly plans starts from $20/month. 

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Animaker

Animaker

Animaker is another Animation video software tool that is home to the largest collection of animated characters, properties, BGs, icons, charts and maps in the world. Animaker Whiteboard 2.0 allows to choose from 5 different board styles. We can create videos in 6 unique video styles from a single application. 


Animaker

The interesting feature that caught my attention is the video Infographics capability with Animaker. Data visualization becomes alot more effective with 100+ charts, 1000+ icons, and 3000+ maps through Video Infographics. Animaker produces HD videos and you can even record videos in vertical format which can be effective for mobiles. 

Animaker Deck combines the power of videos and presentations together by giving you the ability to use the content as both video and PowerPoint presentation that can be a big time saver. There are four pricing plans for Animaker. Personal, Startups, Business and Enterprise. 

Animaker plans start from $12/month for personal use, $19/month for startups and $39/month for businesses. 

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Vyond

Vyond

Vyond previously GoAnimate is a cloud based Animation video software that helps creating professional animated videos for every type of business. Vyond lets you create videos easily with our library of templates, sounds, props, and so much more.

Use Vyond to create everything from communications videos to kick off new programs to videos that support our recruiting efforts. 

Create engaging Animation Videos with Vyond

Vyond comes with three types of plans. Personal, Business and Enterprise. 

Pricing starts from $39/month for personal use, $89/month for business use, $159/month for enterprise. 

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Wideo

Wideo

Wideo is an online animated video creation platform that allows you to create, edit, and share videos for free. The company offers paid plans as well. Wideo is best suited for company presentations, explainer videos, product demos, school projects, animated narratives, and more. 

Wideo has a made to order program as well if you think require their help in creating videos. You can share your video to Facebook or Youtube directly from Wideo. You can also download your video as an MP4 to own a copy of your creation.

Wideo lets you create unlimited animation videos from $39/month with 10 minute videos length each and 80 templates to choose from. They also offer a lower priced plan for beginners starting from $19/month with 10 downloads and 1 minute length limits.

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Powtoon

Powtoon

Powtoon sells cloud-based software  for creating quick animated presentations and animated explainer videos. Powtoon lets you choose from its 1000’s of drag and drop Video Templates and Animated Presentations.

It offers features like direct Export to Social media, HD Quality Downloads, DIY Video & Presentations and Squared Video for Social. Brands. 

Powtoon lets you easily transform your static Photoshop designs into videos in seconds using Powtoon’s extension for Photoshop. 


Powtoon 

Powtoon has four types of subscriptions on the offer. Starter, Pro, Pro+ and Agency. It has a free plan too that lets you try the features on the website to make video up to 3 minutes standard definition, 100 MB storage and Powtoon watermarked. The company has also got Enterprise plan for large corporates. 

Powtoon plans start from $16/Month

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Moovly

Moovly

Moovly is an awesome Animation video software that lets you create engaging videos that are intuitive, simple and affordable. With Moovly, You can make the following videos

  • Engaging explainer video
  • Animated video
  • YouTube intro
  • Whiteboard animation
  • Advertisement
  • Banner
  • Presentation
Moovly Video Maker

You can choose from existing template or create your project from over 175 million video clips, animated objects and sound files available readily. Moovly lets you edit directly from your desktop. 

Moovly pricing starts from $24.92/month

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CrazyTalk

CrazyTalk8

CrazyTalk is a fantastic facial animation software that uses voice and text to vividly animate facial images. The brand new CrazyTalk contains all the powerful features people love about CrazyTalk plus a highly anticipated 3D Head Creation tool, a revolutionary Auto Motion engine, and smooth lip-syncing results for any talking animation projects. . This works for both Windows and Mac desktops. 

CrazyTalk 8 pricing starts from $39 for standard package

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iClone

iClone

iClone offers quality 3d animation video software helping you easily produce professional animations in a very short time for films, animation, video games, content development, education and art.

iClone specializes in providing lip-synced and fully customizable 3D characters with facial animation as well as soft cloth physics simulation and motion key editing.

iClone7

iClone7 pricing starts from $199

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Muvizu


Muvizu is easy to use 3D animation software that allows anyone to create high quality animations quickly and easily. Muvizu’s animation engine is ideal for storytellers, animators, teachers and businesses looking to engage, enchant and delight audiences with animated content.


There is a vast variety of characters and scenes available in the software and you can edit every aspect of the video to cater your needs.

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Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is one of the most popular animated video maker which is used by most video professionals. This software is great and must for high end professionals who have undergone proper professional training and the results speak of themselves. The only reason of placing this industry leader in the bottom is its requirement to have proper training without which the application can be really complex for achieving results. 

Adobe After Effects

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: Animation, Marketing, Software, YouTube Animation

OnePlus 6T launched in US

29/10/2018

OnePlus 6T The much awaited successor to the popular OnePlus 6 launched in New York US officially today. 

OnePlus is partnering with T-Mobile to allow the buyers to experience the smartphone before buying them.

OnePlus 6T
OnePlus 6T

The customers can go to the T-Mobile stores starting November 1 and buy the devices offline. This is significant deviation and bold move that the earlier business model was to offer only through online stores.

The #OnePlus6T reveal is just 5 minutes away. Watch live as we unveil our latest flagship https://t.co/NBb1otHnof pic.twitter.com/xXUG7xR70O

— OnePlus USA (@OnePlus_USA) October 29, 2018

OnePlus 6T will be launched officially in India on October 30 2018. 

Key Features


In about five years, OnePlus doubled its revenue, all thanks to the OnePlus 5 that is the company’s most popular smartphone.  OnePlus is the No.1 company in the premium smartphone market with 40 per cent share in India.


Kyle Kiang, Head of the North America

OnePlus is not looking to enter into entry level smart Phone market as of now and concentrating on its flagship models. 

Key Features of OnePlus 6T

Key Specifications

  • OnePlus 6T ships with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor
  • Comes with Two variants – 6GB/128GB and 8GB / 256GB storage
  • Two colors – Midnight Black and Mirror Black and edges rounded
  • Dewdrop style notch featured 
  • First OnePlus phone without headphone Jack
  • In-display fingerprint reader
  • Dual rear camera, with 16-MP primary and 20-MP secondary sensor
  • 16-megapixel front camera 
  • 6.41-inch display with a waterdrop style notch
  • 19.5″9 aspect ratio
  • Ships with OxygenOS based on Android 9.0 Pie
  • 3700 mAh Battery capacity
  • The Portrait Mode now comes with Studio Lighting
  • Night photography enhancements with new Nightscape scene 
  • Gaming Mode 2.0 loads games up to 20% quicker!
  • OnePlus Bullets Type-C headphones have also been announced
  • New OnePlus Explorer backpack that comes with new buckle worth $99 give away
Bullet Type-C Headphone


OnePlus and Qualcomm working towards a 5G smartphone in the near future


CEO Pete Lau

We’ve increased the size of the battery to 3,700mAh! There’s no stopping you now. ? pic.twitter.com/Wt8JwwVgmM

— OnePlus USA (@OnePlus_USA) October 29, 2018

We often talk about performance, and fast-charging is a big part of that. The #OnePlus6T offers incredible charging speeds, just like you’re used to from us. pic.twitter.com/3HSBac1f1T

— OnePlus USA (@OnePlus_USA) October 29, 2018

Filed Under: Mobiles Tagged With: Android, Launch Event, mobiles, OnePlus 6T

Top 10 Gutenberg Themes for WordPress

29/10/2018

Web design development never remains the same and we continue to receive constant updates and upgrades that leave us with no option but to enjoy the visual treat. Gutenberg is one such experience from WordPress introduced recently to make writing more fun and exciting. 

What is Gutenberg for WordPress

Gutenberg is the new editing experience in WordPress. The project is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the man who invented a printing press with a movable type 500 years ago. 

For WordPress team, Gutenberg is more than an editor. While the editor is the focus right now, the project will ultimately impact the entire publishing experience including customization (the next focus area). that said, we can expect a lot of development in this one area that is expected to take our internet publishing to a new level altogether. 

The current WordPress visual editor almost remained the same for many years now without much changes. It requires us utilizing lot of short codes and HTML to get the desired results. Gutenberg, the new editor for WordPress makes writing rich posts a breeze and effortless making use of blocks without much need for shortcodes or HTML. 

As of writing this article, the plugin has more than 500,000 installations to date. 

The editor will create a new page- and post-building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTML, or “mystery meat” embed discovery. 


— Matt Mullenweg

How to Install Gutenberg

Gutenberg can be downloaded through the WordPress repository of plugins. Alternatively, you can download it directly from your WordPress dashboard under “Add New” plugins. 

The Gutenberg editor looks like this below. There’s an option to switch to classic editor anytime overriding Gutenberg. 

Top 10 Gutenberg  Themes

I have gone through several themes and identified the best themes that blend well with Gutenberg functionality. 

Gutentype 

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GutenType

Gutentype is a clean & fresh WordPress Blog based on Gutenberg page builder. It is apt for guest post blog, rouge, niche blogs, giver, viral blogs, giveaways, guides & how-to blogs. 
The theme is based on the powerful framework and made fully responsive, so that your website would look perfect on any device, from Android smartphone to Retina display. Besides, it has everything to get highly ranked in search engines due to 100% SEO readiness.

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ContentBerg 

ContentBerg

ContentBerg is a fully compatible theme specially designed for Gutenberg admirers. This theme is apt for those who place content above anything. The layout is super clean with several layouts available and needless to say, comes with a beautiful design.

Highlights of this theme include clean design, ample white spaces, carefully selected fonts, fast loading pages, all combine to give you the best readable theme you can imagine!

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Typograph

Typograph

Typograph is a content focused WordPress theme. Typograph is designed to look great with no images at all, solving the problem of finding the quality graphics for many users, at the same it becomes even more beautiful with images and other media content.More important is typograph is designed to reap the real power of Gutenberg editor, 

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Tabor

Tabor is a gutenberg ready blog WordPress theme for professional writers and content marketing. Tabor is simple, actionable — and just works. It is scalable, resource-light, and purposely-built to be best at what it’s built for.

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Florian

Florian

Florian is a WordPress theme enhanced for Gutenberg editor and responsive with powerful Theme Options in WordPress customizer with live real-time preview, packed with advanced features to set your personal blog apart. This theme is perfect for everything from photography, fashion and beauty, and interior design, to nature, health and spirituality, this modern and stylish personal blog theme makes for an immersive browsing experience.

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Forte

Forte is a beautiful Gutenberg WordPress theme that perfectly blends with the expectations of professional writers and bloggers looking for a super clean and minimalist design yet with compelling design. It’s a
theme for writers to convey their messages with strength and simplicity. With a wild array of features and brevity, Forte is designed to tell your stories with poise, elegance and multifaceted beauty. 

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Ivory

Ivory

Ivory is a multipurpose modern Gutenberg theme for business and marketing with RTL support. This theme appeals more for Brand and content marketing businesses. Ivory offers extraordinary number of combinations for any purpose and interests. 

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Mae

Mae

Mae is a Gutenberg compatible WordPress theme more suited for events, conferences and seminars. The theme comes with full Gutenberg support, fully responsive, optimized for speed, unlimited colors and google fonts. The theme has multiple ready to use landing pages.

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Deviox

Deviox

Deviox is a responsive stylish & trendy Multi-Purpose Business WordPress theme with clean and fresh design and compatible with Gutenberg. It is a perfect solution for any corporate business website or business blog. It has a solid business design and outstanding layout options. It’s perfect for law firms, web and creative agencies, marketing & advertising services. 

Novum

Novum is a Gutenberg theme combined with extended Woo Commerce power makes it a great choice for an e-commerce fashion website. The theme is super clean, minimal, responsive layout. 

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Have you come across other themes inspired by Gutenberg Editor? Please share your feedback in the comments section. Would love to update the list with those themes. 

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: GutenBerg, Top Themes, wordpress

Top Cheap Hosting Providers for India

29/10/2018

The hosting industry is flooded with several providers coming out with attractive plans. This always can lead to a confusion as to which provider be chosen over the other. A list of top hosting providers for India sites which are cheaper and faster are chosen. 


Great hosting boils down to the 3 S’s: speed, support and security,”


Adam Berry, digital director at Wingard Creative

Factors to consider when selecting a hosting service

Speed performance and server up times play major role in determining the right host for your website.  Its’ not all. The other questions we should ask and research is how good their customer service is. How close is the data center to my targeted geographic location? How well the hosting partner is equipped to handle sudden bursts of high traffic?

Here’s a look at what you should think when considering a hosting provider

  • How much website traffic do you expect in the next 1 year or more
  • What level of customer service would you be requiring? 24X7 Email, Chat, Phone what else? Managed or unmanaged support? 
  • Good understanding of the server types. Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Cloud hosting, Private servers are some of the options to choose from a wide variety of resources
  • Data center location and possibility of you choosing the nearest data center location with reference to your geographical preferences. 
  • Latency is another factor that can affect the site performance

Factors you need to consider when choosing a Web hosting provider

  • Free domain
  • Phone/Chat/Email Support 24X7
  • Unlimited hosting 
  • Free SSL certification
  • Enhanced malware protection
  • Malware and spam protection
  • 1-click Installers (such as wordpress, Joomla)
  • Refunds policy
  • Scalability 
  • Servers up-time guarantee
  • Server types
  • Reputation of the hosting provider
  • Site backups (auto and on demand backups)

Top Cheap Hosting providers for India

Siteground

  • start from $3.95 / month 
  • start from 10 GB storage
  • Free SSL
  • 1-click installer
  • 24/7 Technical support
  • 30-day money back guarantee
  • Free cloudflare CDN
  • Singapore closest Indian data center
  • HTTP/2 enabled servers
  • Emails 
  • Official WordPress recommended
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Bluehost

  • start from $3.95/month
  • Free domain
  • Unlimited Bandwidth & 50GB Space
  • Email 
  • 1-click installer
  • Free SSL
  • 24/7 Technical support
  • Official WordPress recommended

A2 Hosting

  • Starts from $3.92/month
  • Anytime money back guarantee
  • 24/7 customer support
  • 1-click installer
  • Free SSL
  • 25 Email accounts
  • Singapore closest data center

Hostgator

  • start from ₹ 99/month
  • 24/7 customer service
  • Indian data center 
  • unlimited storage
  • 45-day money back guarantee
  • 5 Email accounts

BigRock

  • start from ₹ 59/month
  • 20 GB Disk space
  • 5 Email accounts
  • Varnish web acceleration
  • 30 day MoneyBack Guarantee

Do you have other providers in mind that you think should be here? Please leave your comments in the comments section. Would love to update the list with your recommendations. 

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: hosting, websites

Top 5 Sitemap Generators for Websites

29/10/2018

What is a Sitemap

A Sitemap simply is a list of pages of your website hierarchically and systematically organized typically. It is a way of organizing your website, identifying the URLs and data under each section.


Three different types of sitemaps exist.

  1. Sitemaps used by the website architects during the website design
  2. Sitemaps structurally listed and organized to be indexed by crawlers of search engines such as Google and Bing
  3. Sitemaps listed on website with a visual interface for easy navigation

Benefits of Sitemaps

In particular, the sitemaps generated for the purpose of web crawlers aiding to index the contents of the website are highly beneficial. The content will be indexed faster and effectively on the search engines that result in a better search engine optimization (SEO) rankings of your website.

Sitemaps are typically in XML format that makes a listing of URLs for the website and submitted from the back end normally. The webmasters have flexibility to provide additional information about each URL such as the time of update, changes made. Such sitemaps are highly beneficial

  1. Where some content is not available through browser.
  2. The website is a large one and updated frequently so web crawlers can pick up the new content intelligently and faster
  3. Where website has few external links
  4. Converting websites built using AJAX, Flash or other non-HTML languages into searchable pages.

An Example sitemap (XML)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
<sitemap>
<loc>http ://www. example. com/sitemapl. xml. gz</loc> <lastmod>2018-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

XML Sitemaps are especially helpful if:

You have a brand new website

Your have got a lot of pages

Your web-site has dynamic content generated by CMS

Your website has complex navigation

You don’t have desired Google PageRank

Some of your webpages are either not accessible from the main page and its children, or are burried too deep in the page hierarchy

Web-Site-Map

List of Top Sitemaps Generators

There are plenty of sitemap generators available online that make our life easy by generating sitemaps dynamically with every update to the website. The best 5 sitemap generators are provided below. 

XML-Sitemaps

XML-Sitemaps

XML-Sitemaps.com is one of the best generators that is much cost effective and works very efficiently. I have used their service for my other web sites and noticed tremendous difference in performance of my web sites with Google search.

XML-sitemaps is available in three options. The first option is a free generator more than enough for a small website with 500 pages or lesser. You can simply enter the URL of your website and the sitemap will be generated in XML format which can be easily uploaded on your website and submitted to Google Search Console and others such as Bing Webmasters.

Sitemap generator

The second is a PRO version targeted for medium to large websites upto 1,500,000 pages indexing that comes with an automatic update.

PRO version will assist you detecting any broken links on the website and help create images, videos, news sitemaps and RSS feed. PRO plans start from $3.49 per month.

Sitemap generator1

XML-Sitemaps also provide an unlimited generator installed on your server and updated back end through setting up a cron job.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

SEO Spider is a sitemap generator that works on windows, mac and Ubuntu.

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler, that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key onsite elements to analyse onsite SEO. Unlike XML-sitemaps The generator is a desktop application and no online sitemap is not possible. 

Spider Windows Desktop

Spider comes with two licensing options. One is a free version which lets you crawl up to 500 pages that is more than suitable for a small website. The other is a pro version that removes the 500 page limit and comes with several additional premium functions such as integration with Google Analytics, Search console and scheduling. 

Web-Site-Map

Web-Site-Map.com is a totally free online sitemap generator with no premium options available. 

The advantage of using web-site-map generator is the free element and online availability. However, the site keeps a dynamic limit on the number of pages that can be crawled at anytime based on the traffic. As I last checked, the limit shows 3950 pages per crawl.

Web Hosting

Sitemap Writer Pro

Sitemap Writer Pro is a desktop paid application for generating sitemap with unlimited number of web pages at a life time cost $24.95. 

Sitemap Writer Pro is an easy-to–use program, fast and efficient, which offers 7 types of sitemaps (Standard Sitemap, Google Image, Google News, Google Video, Google Images, Google Code Search, Google Geo, Google Mobile) to properly index your website, generate an xml sitemap and upload it to all search engines supporting XML sitemaps (Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Bing (Live.com) and Moreover.com). 

Google XML sitemaps for wordpress 

Google XML sitemaps is a plugin exclusively for wordpress websites. This plugin works with wordpress version 3.3 and better and is available free. 


With this sitemap plugin, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.Since version 4, the sitemap files are dynamically generated and that’s something quite useful for the bloggers. 

Conclusion

Sitemaps are a necessity for every website with the primary purpose of easy submission to search engines to maintain the SEO rankings on a daily basis. 

It is a must-have-tool for every webmaster and website owner and offers a record of great features that you will benefit from.

What’s your recommended sitemap generator? Please leave your comments. Would love to update the list with other generators. 

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: search marketing, SEO, sitemaps

UAE VAT Guide

19/11/2017

Check this comprehensive VAT guide prepared for UAE region for reference purposes.

Business Impact

VAT Flow

Accounting Treatment

Example

Contoso LLC purchased a product of AED 50000 on which 5% standard VAT is applicable. VAT paid is AED 2,500 (Input VAT)

Contoso LLC sold product of AED 100,000 on which 5% standard VAT is applicable. The VAT is AED collected is 5,000. (Output VAT)

Net VAT Payable by Contoso LLC to Government is AED 5,000 – AED 2,500 = AED 2,500.

Accounting Entries in Contoso Books

Nature of Supplies  

Example of VAT Due Calculation

M/s Contoso LLC made taxable sales of the following on which standard rate of 5% is applicable. All supplies are inclusive of VAT. Expenses (Purchases) incurred by the company in the making of total sales amounted to AED 65,000 inclusive of VAT. Let us see how the VAT due is calculated with different scenarios.

Details Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4
Standard Rate Sales 100,000 50,000 – –
Zero-Rated Sales – 30,000 100,000 –
Exempt Sales – 20,000 – 100,000
Total Sales 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
         
VAT on Standard Rate Sales (100,000 * 5/105) 4,762 2,381 – –
VAT on Zero-Rated Sales – – – –
VAT on Exempt Sales – – – –
Total Output VAT 4,762 2,381 – –
Input VAT Recoverable (On Standard and Zero Rated)   65000*5/105     = 3095 65000*50%*5/105
+ 65000*30%*5/105 = 2476
65000*5/105     =3095 –
B. Total Input VAT Recoverable 3095 2476 3095 –
         
C. Net Tax Payable/(Refundable) (A – B) 1,667 (95) (3,095) –

Output Tax Payable = Sales (Incl. of VAT) *5/105

Input Tax Recoverable = (Total Supplies – Exempted Supplies) *5/105

Net VAT Payable/(Refundable) = Output Tax – Input Tax

Place of Supply of Goods

SNO Dispatch Receipt Place of Supply Remarks
1 UAE UAE UAE Domestic Supply. Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/exempt in UAE
2 UAE UK UAE Goods departing the state or the provision of services to a person whose place of establishment is outside the state. Zero Rated in UAE
3 UK UAE UAE Place of Import for Goods shall be the first point of entry. Reverse Charge in UAE
4 UAE -VAT Registered KSA – VAT Registered KSA Reverse Charge in KSA
5 UAE – VAT Registered. Total Supply to KSA exceeds threshold SAR 375,000 KSA – VAT Non-registered KSA If exceeds threshold to a non-registered person in GCC Implementing states, the supplier of goods must register in destination state. Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/Exempt in KSA
6 UAE – VAT Registered – Total Supply to KSA below 375,000 threshold KSA – VAT Non-Registered UAE If below threshold to a non-registered recipient in GCC implementing state, place of supply is the originating state. Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/exempt in UAE
7 Sharjah Dubai UAE Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/exempt in UAE

Place of Supply of Services

SNO Residence Recipient Place of Supply Remarks
1 UAE UAE UAE Domestic Supply Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/exempt in UAE
2 UAE UK UAE Services outside GCC are Zero-rated
3 UK UAE UAE Reverse Charge in UAE
4 UAE KSA KSA Reverse Charge in KSA
5 Sharjah Dubai UAE Standard Rate 5% or Zero-Rated/exempt in UAE
6 KSA UAE UAE Reverse Charge in UAE

Exceptions to Place of Supply of Services

Domestic supplies
If the recipient is registered for VAT in another GCC state, then the place of supply for the service is the other GCC state.

Imports from outside GCC
If the supplier is a non-UAE resident who provides service to a VAT-registered resident in the UAE, then the place of supply is the UAE.

Installation
The place of supply for installation services is where the installation is done. Real estate-related services
This type of service includes:
(i) Real estate experts and agent services
(ii) Granting the right to possess or use real estate
(iii) Services related to construction work   The place of supply for real estate services is where the real estate is located.

Hotel and restaurant service
For restaurants, hotels, and catering services, the place of supply is where the services are performed.

Telecommunication and electronically-supplied services
The place of supply for wired and wireless telecommunication services and electronically supplied services will be the location where the services are used or received.

Cultural services
For cultural, art, sports, educational, or similar services, the place of supply is where the services are performed. Passenger transportation services
The place of supply for passenger-related transportation services is the location where transportation begins.

Reverse Charge Mechanism

A mechanism under which the recipient of goods or services is required to pay VAT instead of the supplier, when the supplier is not a taxable person in the member state where the supply has been made.

Example

Import Value

Import is defined as the arrival of Goods from abroad into the State or receiving Services from outside the State.

In case of Normal Import Transactions

Particulars Value
Value of Import (FOB) AED 100,000
Add: Freight and Insurance AED 10,000
Total CIF Value AED 110,000
Add: Customs Duty (on FOB) AED 5,000
Total Value of Import AED 115,000
Add: VAT on Total Import Value AED 5,750
Total Value of Import AED 120,750

In Case of Excise Duty Goods

Particulars Value
Value of Import (FOB) AED 100,000
Add: Freight and Insurance AED 10,000
Total CIF Value AED 110,000
Add: Customs Duty (on FOB) AED 5,000
Total Value of Import AED 115,000
Add: Excise Duty @100% AED 115,000
Total Value of Import for Excisable Goods AED 230,000
Add: VAT on Total Import Value AED 11,500
Total Value of Import AED 241,500

Filing

MONTHLY QUARTERLY
SMALL – MEDIUM LARGE BUSINESS

Filing Online through FTA Portal

Return filing Monthly / Quarterly

If last day is a public holiday, deadline be extended to the first business day after the holiday

Return must contain details of all supplies bought and sold

Each Emirate wise break up of supplies may be required

Late filing may attract penalties

Any corrections for a previous period can be made

VAT Record Keeping

Each company shall maintain its accounting books/records in its place of business for a period of at least 5 (five) years from the end of the financial year of the company.

Following record examples that shall be maintained by the business with accuracy, paper/electronic format, for the specified period.

APPENDIX

 Value Added Tax: A tax imposed on the import and supply of Goods and Services at each stage of production and distribution, including the Deemed Supply.

Tax: Value Added Tax (VAT)

GCC States: All countries that are full members of The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf pursuant to its Charter.

Implementing States: GCC States that are implementing a Tax law pursuant to issued legislation.

Goods: physical property that can be supplied including but not limited to real estate, water, and all forms of energy as specified in this Decision.

Services: anything that can be supplied other than Goods.

Standard rate: the applicable VAT rate as specified in Article (3) of the Decree-Law.

Import: the arrival of goods from abroad into the State or receiving Services from outside the State. Concerned Goods: Goods that have been imported, and would not be exempt if supplied in the State.

Concerned Services: Services that have been imported where the place of supply is in the State, and would not be exempt if supplied in the State.

Person: natural or legal person.

Taxable Person: any Person registered or obligated to register for Tax purposes under the Decree-Law.

Taxpayer: any person obligated to pay Tax in the State under the Decree-Law, whether a Taxable Person or end consumer.

Legal Representative: the manager of a company or a guardian or custodian of a minor or incapacitated person, or any other Person appointed legally to represent another person.

Tax Registration: a procedure according to which the Taxable Person or his Legal Representative registers for Tax purposes at the Authority.

Tax Registration Number (TRN): a unique number issued by the Authority for each Person registered for Tax purposes.

Registrant: The Taxable Person issued with a TRN.

Recipient of Goods: Person to whom Goods are supplied or imported.

Recipient of Services: Person to whom Services are supplied or imported.

Tax Return: information and data specified for Tax purposes and submitted by a Taxable Person in accordance with a form prepared by the Authority.

Consideration: all that is received or expected to be received for the supply of Goods or Services, whether in money or other acceptable forms of payment.

Business: any activity conducted regularly, on an ongoing basis and independently by any Person, in any location, such as industrial, commercial, agricultural, professional, service or excavation activities or anything related to the use of the tangible or intangible property.

Exempt Supply: a supply of Goods or Services for Consideration while conducting Business in the State, where no tax is due and no Input Tax may be recovered except according to the provisions of the Decree-Law.

Taxable Supply: a supply of Goods or Services for a Consideration by a Person conducting Business in the State, and does not include Exempt Supplies.

Deemed Supply: anything considered a supply and treated as a Taxable Supply according to the instances stated in the Decree-Law.

Input Tax: Tax paid by a Person or due from him when Goods or Services are supplied to him, or when conducting an Import.

Output Tax: Tax charged on a Taxable Supply and any supply considered to be a Taxable Supply.

Recoverable Tax: amounts that were paid and can be repaid by the Authority to the Taxpayer pursuant to the provisions of the Decree-Law.

Due Tax: Tax that is calculated and charged pursuant to the Decree-Law.

Payable Tax: Tax that is due for payment to the Authority.

Tax Period: the specified timeframe, for which Payable Tax shall be calculated and paid.

Tax Invoice: a written or electronic document in which the occurrence of a Taxable Supply is recorded with details pertaining to it.

Tax Credit Note: a written or electronic document in which the occurrence of any amendment to a Taxable Supply that reduces or cancels it is recorded and the details pertaining to it.

Government Entities: Federal and local ministries, government departments, government agencies, authorities and public institutions in the State.

Charities: societies and associations of public welfare not aiming to make a profit that are listed within a decision issued by the Cabinet upon the recommendation of the Minister.

Mandatory Registration Threshold: an amount specified in this Decision that if exceeded by the value of Taxable Supplies or is anticipated to be exceeded, the supplier must apply for Tax Registration.

Voluntary Registration Threshold: an amount specified in this Decision that if exceeded by the value of Taxable Supplies or taxable expenses or is anticipated to be exceeded, the supplier may apply for Tax Registration.

Transport-related Services: shipment, packaging and securing, preparation of Customs documents, container management, loading, unloading, storing and moving of Goods, or any another closely related services or services that are necessary to conduct the transportation services.

Place of Establishment: the place where a Business is legally established in a country pursuant to its decision of establishment, or in which significant management decisions are taken and central management functions are conducted.

Fixed Establishment: any fixed place of business, other than the Place of Establishment, in which the Person conducts his business regularly or permanently and where sufficient human and technology resources exist to enable the Person to supply or acquire Goods or Services, including the Person’s branches.

Place of Residence: the place where a Person has a Place of Establishment or Fixed Establishment, in accordance with the provisions of the Decree-Law.

Non-Resident: any person who does not own a Place of Establishment or Fixed Establishment in the State and usually does not reside in the State.

Related Parties: two or more Persons who not separated in economic, financial or regulatory aspects, where one can control the others either by Law, or through the acquisition of shares or voting rights.

Designated Zone: any area specified by a decision of the Cabinet upon the recommendation of the Minister, as a Designated Zone for the purpose of the Decree-Law.

Export: Goods departing the State or the provision of Services to a Person whose Place of Establishment or Fixed Establishment is outside the State, including the Direct and Indirect Export.

Direct Export: An Export of Goods to a destination outside of the Implementing States, where the supplier is responsible for arranging transport or appointing an agent to do so on his behalf.

Indirect Export: An Export of Goods to a destination outside of the Implementing States, where the overseas customer is responsible for arranging the collection of the Goods from the supplier in the State and who exports the Goods himself, or has appointed an agent to do so on his behalf;

Overseas Customer: A Recipient of Goods who does not have a Place of Establishment or Fixed Establishment in the State, or otherwise resides in the State, and who does not have a Tax Registrations Number.

Voucher: any instrument that gives the right to receive Goods or Services against the value stated thereon or the right to receive a discount on the price of the Goods or Services. Vouchers do not include postage stamps issued by the Emirates Post Group.

Capital Assets: Business assets designated for long-term use.

Capital Assets Scheme: a scheme by which initially recovered Input Tax is adjusted based on actual use during a specified time.

Administrative Penalties: amounts charged to a Person by the Authority for a breach of the provisions of the Decree-Law or the Federal Law No. (7) of 2017 on Tax Procedures.

Tax Group: two or more Persons registered with the Authority for Tax purposes as a single taxable person in accordance with the provisions of the Decree-Law.

Notification: notification to the concerned person or his Tax Agent or legal representative of decisions issued by the Authority through the means stated in the Federal Law No. (7) of 2017 on the Tax Procedures.

Tax Evasion: the use of illegal means by a Person resulting in lowering the amount of Due Tax, non-payment of the Due Tax or a refund of Tax that he does not have the right to have refunded under the Decree-Law.

Disclaimer

This guide is prepared only with my individual knowledge and personal understanding of the VAT. Please confirm with the relevant authorities for any guidance required. I’m not responsible in any capacity and please let me know any mistakes or errors in the comments section. This document is prepared for the general understanding of Value Added Tax (VAT) applicable to the UAE region. The document may contain a collection of information from various sources, application of our skills and expertise on the subject. The document is not created for any commercial purposes instead purely for knowledge sharing exercise among our internal employees, external clients or other public. Any words, sentences or content resembling other publications can either be coincidental or used solely for informative purposes only. If such publications wish to remove such content from this document, they may write in the comments section.

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