9% corporate tax since June 2023. 5% VAT since 2018. Mashreq packs card spend, salary, and supplier payments into one PDF. Kashfbank pulls each into its own row for the FTA filing.
Convert for tax prepThe UAE has no personal income tax, so individuals filing on personal income do not need a statement-driven return. The work sits at the entity level: 9% corporate tax on net profit above AED 375,000 since June 2023, and 5% VAT since January 2018 for businesses above the AED 375,000 annual revenue registration threshold. Free-zone entities can still qualify for 0% on qualifying income if they meet the FTA's conditions.
Mashreq is the daily-banking account for many UAE SMEs and the Mashreq Neo account is dominant among solo founders and freelancers. The FTA does not require you to submit a bank statement with the return — it requires you to retain it for at least seven years and produce it on audit request. A clean Excel of the period is what your tax agent asks for first.
Mashreq prints VAT PAYMENT FTA as a discrete debit when you remit through the FTA portal. Supplier payments that include 5% VAT show only the gross amount on the bank line — the split sits on the supplier invoice. The statement and the supplier ledger have to reconcile, not just the totals.
Foreign-currency POS purchases print the inline exchange rate between debit and credit columns. Kashfbank reads this notation as a description attribute, not a transaction amount, so the AED debit lands cleanly in one row. Integrated card spend from the credit card lives inside the account statement; older versions of the format may drop the POS prefix on these card rows, but the merchant descriptor still identifies them.
For corporate tax, pull a clean revenue figure and qualifying business expenses. For VAT, capture every output VAT supply credit and every input VAT debit through the period.
Modern digitally generated PDF. English dominant. Dates DD/MM/YYYY or DD-MMM-YYYY. Exchange rate shown inline for foreign currency transactions. IBAN, BIC, and branch code in header. Card spend integrated within account statement — no separate card statement. Mashreq Neo accounts may have a slightly different header layout from classic Mashreq accounts.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| POS- | Card purchase at point-of-sale |
| ATM CASH | ATM cash withdrawal |
| SALARY | WPS salary credit |
| REMITTANCE OUT | International money transfer sent |
| EXCHANGE RATE | FX rate applied to foreign transaction |
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.
Download the statement covering your tax period
From Mashreq Mobile or Mashreq Neo, request the statement covering your full CT period or VAT quarter. Save the PDF and upload it to Kashfbank. Keep the PDF for the FTA's seven-year retention window.
Confirm AED base and statement boundaries
Check the opening and closing dates match the FTA period. If the statement crosses two VAT quarters, Kashfbank extracts the whole file — you filter by date after export.
Categorise into FTA buckets
Use the Category column to group rows: Revenue, Supplier (with VAT), Supplier (no VAT), VAT Remittance, Salary, Card Spend, Other. UAE accountants remap these to the chart of accounts in Zoho Books or Xero on import.
Export and hand to your tax agent
Download the CSV. It opens directly in Zoho Books UAE VAT edition, Xero, or QuickBooks. Keep the original PDF — the FTA's record-keeping period is seven years from the end of the relevant tax period.
Common challenges
Does Mashreq integrate credit card spend into the account statement?
Yes. Unlike most UAE banks that issue a separate card statement, Mashreq prints card POS debits inside the account PDF. That keeps the document count down but means one file mixes account and card activity. Kashfbank tags each row by channel so the categories stay clean for tax prep.
How does Kashfbank handle VAT amounts on Mashreq statements?
The bank line shows the gross amount paid to a supplier. The 5% VAT split sits on the supplier invoice, not the statement. Kashfbank tags VAT PAYMENT FTA rows separately so your prior-period remittances are easy to sum.
I am a Mashreq Neo customer. Is the statement format different from classic Mashreq?
Slightly. Neo statements use a narrower description column so merchant names may truncate, and the header layout differs from classic Mashreq accounts. The row schema — date, description, debit, credit, balance — is the same. Kashfbank reads both.
What about the inline exchange rate row for foreign-currency purchases?
Mashreq prints the FX rate between the debit and credit amounts on foreign POS rows. Generic parsers used to read this as a separate transaction amount. Kashfbank recognises the FX notation and attaches it to the AED debit as a description attribute, not a new row.
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