Excise tax under the 2026 tiered model

What you will be able to do when you finish: name the five excise goods that exist in law from 1 January 2026, place any sweetened drink in the correct sugar band and compute its excise to the fils, set up products, categories and the Excise Price Register in Odoone, record each of the four declaration types, work out what a Designated Zone movement does to your liability, file the monthly return on time, and tell the three causes of a zero excise amount apart — one of which means everything is working.

Who this is for. You import, produce, store or sell excise goods in the UAE, or you keep the books for someone who does. You do not need to be a tax specialist. You do need to know what a product record and a stock transfer are. Excise is a small tax with a large penalty surface, and most of the errors are configuration errors, not arithmetic ones.

How to follow along. Install the app from Apps → Odoone UAE Excise Tax, or with -i odoone_uae_excise. Every menu path, field name and button quoted in this course comes from the module's own user guide. The worked examples follow one sample drinks importer through one month, and every figure is computed from the rates in Cabinet Decision 197/2025, so you can check the arithmetic against ours line by line rather than taking it on trust. Your own products and prices will differ.

This content is general information for UAE businesses, not tax, legal, or financial advice. Rules change and cases differ — speak to a qualified advisor about your situation. Every legal figure in this course was verified against its primary source on 18 August 2026, and the instrument is named each time so you can re-check it yourself.