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LedgerClients' FTA compliance
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VAT, explainedCorporate tax, explained
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Arakan Ledger · Clients' FTA compliance

Client paperwork in, checked ledgers out.

Clients' invoices and receipts — scans, PDFs, photos, WhatsApp — read, sorted into ledgers and checked against VAT and Corporate Tax rules before filing.

For: Accounting and bookkeeping firms

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What Ledger does

Clients' FTA compliance

  • Every format

    Phone photos, scanned bundles, supplier PDFs and WhatsApp forwards. Large scans are split into the documents inside them.

  • Read and sorted

    Counterparty, TRN, dates, amounts and VAT are read from each document, which is placed in sales, purchases or expenses and filed to its tax period.

  • Checks that cite the law

    Every line is tested against UAE tax rules. Each flag names the Lexara article it comes from.

  • Held for review, with a reason

    Anything uncertain, from low confidence to a TRN that isn't 15 digits, waits for a person.

  • Review before anything is final

    Returns move from draft to review to approval, and the period locks once the return is filed.

  • Every original kept

    Each file is kept in Vault with its own audit trail. Every figure on a return traces back to the page it was read from.

How it works

  1. 1

    Add your clients

    Each client with its TRN and licence, so documents are recognised as theirs.

  2. 2

    Send in the paperwork

    Drop a batch, or let clients send it on WhatsApp. You see the page count before reading starts.

  3. 3

    Review and file

    Clear the flags, approve the return, and the period locks.

See it at work

Ledger, recorded in the product.

Short walkthroughs on realistic demo data, one feature per chapter.

Full demo

Arakan Ledger — product demo

From a client's pile of papers to a checked, ready-to-file VAT return

10 min

Every payment, matched to its bill

A quarter's bank statement for Al Noor Building Materials, read line by line, each payment paired with its bill, salaries and duty marked as needing no document, balances agreeing, and the whole thing downloadable to Excel.

1 min

Drop the pile in, skip the keying

Scans, photos and PDFs go into one window; Ledger sorts them, reads every line and files each to the right ledger.

1 min

Prove the zero rate before you file

Al Noor's export declarations and bills of lading are linked to the sales they support, Trade checks shows which zero-rated sales still lack evidence, and the client's import declarations are checked against the FTA's own list.

2 min

All 8 Ledger demos

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What the law asks, before the software.

Explainer series narrated over diagrams, with the article behind every claim. No product on screen. Each video is about two minutes and starts the next.

VAT, explained

For: Owners, finance leads and bookkeepers of UAE businesses, and the accounting firms that file for them: when to register, what a tax invoice must carry, the rates, imports, what input tax can be recovered, the return by the 28th, and the records.

8 videos · about 15 min in all

Corporate tax, explained

For: Owners, finance leads and accountants of UAE companies, mainland and free zone: who is taxed, at what rate, how taxable income is worked out, the reliefs that exist and what they cost, and the nine-month deadline.

6 videos · about 12 min in all

Every series and demo

Questions

Where else can documents come from?

Zoho Books and Xero, a forwarding email address for your firm, spreadsheets and bank statements.

Does Ledger file with the FTA?

Ledger prepares and checks the figures. Your firm reviews, approves and files.

Works with

For firms serving clients. The apps share your companies, documents and rules, so nothing is entered twice.

  • VaultStatutory records storage
  • LexaraUAE rulebook library
  • OnboardClient onboarding (KYC/CDD)

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Comply

Your compliance manager

Govern

Governance and board compliance

Onboard

Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)

Shield

Clients' regulatory compliance

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Clients' FTA compliance

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Planning your UAE setup

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