All Warehouse Keepers (and persons intending to register as Warehouse Keepers) are required to provide a financial guarantee for each Designated Zone the Warehouse Keeper is responsible for. The amount of the required guarantee is determined by the Federal Tax Authority (“FTA”).
The FTA wants to acknowledge Warehouse Keepers with good governance of their tax affairs by reducing the amount of the required financial guarantee based on the Warehouse Keeper’s and the Taxable Person’s compliance history.
This Public Clarification provides guidance on how financial guarantees in respect of Excise Tax Designated Zones are calculated. This Public Clarification takes effect from 1 September 2022.
At the time Excise Tax was introduced in 2017, the FTA did not have sufficient compliance history to determine a compliance risk-based financial guarantee amount for Excise Tax Designated Zones.
In the past five years, compliance history has been monitored and, in line with international best practice, from 1 September 2022, financial guarantees will be determined usi...