9% corporate tax since June 2023. 5% VAT since 2018. Trade finance, DEWA, and FTA remittances — all extracted cleanly from your CBD PDF.
Convert for tax prepThe FTA does not require statement submission with the corporate tax or VAT return. It requires retention for seven years and production within five business days of an audit request. A clean Excel is what your tax agent uses for the actual preparation.
Commercial Bank of Dubai is popular with mid-market Dubai businesses. The statements are bilingual Arabic-English, AED-denominated, with strong merchant reference coverage. CBD's trade finance arm means many SME statements carry letter of credit and trade-line entries that need careful categorisation.
Trade finance entries on CBD statements use reference codes rather than merchant names. They need their own chart-of-accounts category — not lumped with operating expenses. Letter of credit settlements may appear as separate debit and credit rows for the same underlying transaction; the descriptors carry the LC reference number so they can be matched.
FTA VAT remittances appear as ONLINE TRANSFER or DIRECT DEBIT rows with FTA in the descriptor. Kashfbank preserves the full descriptor so prior-period payments are easy to filter and sum.
Revenue, supplier debits, trade finance, FTA remittances — the four heavy categories for a CBD business account.
Digitally generated PDF. Bilingual Arabic-English headers and column labels. AED denominated. Dates DD/MM/YYYY. Account summary at top: opening balance, total debits, total credits, closing balance. Detailed merchant references including POS, ATM, and online transfer identifiers in description field.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| POS PURCHASE | Card payment at merchant POS |
| ATM CASH WITHDRAWAL | ATM cash withdrawal |
| SALARY TRANSFER | WPS salary credit |
| ONLINE TRANSFER | Internet banking transfer |
| DIRECT DEBIT | Automatic mandate payment |
UAE corporate tax (9% above AED 375K, effective June 2023) requires businesses to reconcile bank deposits against revenue figures; statements are the primary source for revenue verification by the FTA.
Request the CBD statement
From CBD NOW Mobile or your branch, pull the statement covering the CT year or VAT quarter. Save the PDF.
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Bilingual rows are extracted with their original descriptors. The account summary block at the top is excluded from the transaction row set.
Map to FTA categories
Use the Category column: Revenue, Supplier (with VAT), Supplier (no VAT), Trade Finance, VAT Remittance, Utility, Other. Trade finance is the one CBD-specific bucket to watch.
Export and retain
Download the CSV. Keep the original PDF for the seven-year FTA window.
Common challenges
How does Kashfbank handle CBD's trade finance entries?
Trade finance rows are extracted with their LC reference codes preserved in the descriptor and tagged with a Trade Finance Category value. They are kept separate from operating expense rows so the chart-of-accounts mapping in Zoho Books or Xero stays clean.
Does CBD split 5% VAT on supplier payments?
No. The bank line carries the gross amount. The 5% split sits on the supplier invoice. Kashfbank tags FTA remittance rows separately so your prior-period VAT payments are easy to sum.
Does the account summary at the top of the CBD statement appear in the export?
No. We exclude the summary block from the transaction row set. Including it would produce phantom 'transactions' for opening balance, total debits, and total credits. The summary is preserved in the file metadata for reference.
Will the export import into Zoho Books UAE VAT edition?
Yes. Date, Description, Debit, Credit columns match Zoho's bank statement import template. The Category column needs a one-time map to your client's chart of accounts on first import.
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Regulator: Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE)
Fiscal year: Jan 1 – Dec 31 (Gregorian)
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