What's Included
We quantify the error and its impact on the affected return, determine whether the error meets the FTA’s threshold requiring formal disclosure, prepare the Voluntary Disclosure Form 211 with a clear explanation of what happened and how it was identified, and submit it through the FTA portal.
We also calculate any additional VAT, penalty and interest due as a result of the correction, so you know your full financial exposure before the disclosure is submitted rather than being surprised by the FTA’s own calculation afterward.
Why This Needs to Be Handled Correctly
The FTA applies materially lower penalties to errors disclosed voluntarily compared to the same error identified independently during an FTA audit. Beyond the reduced penalty, a voluntary disclosure also demonstrates good-faith compliance, which matters if the FTA is assessing your business’s overall compliance history in a future review.
Errors most commonly requiring disclosure include incorrectly classified transactions discovered during a later review, input VAT claimed without adequate supporting documentation, and output VAT understated due to a calculation or recording error in a prior period.
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What We'll Need From You
Details of the error identified, the affected return period, and supporting records that let us quantify the exact financial impact before preparing the disclosure.
Our Process
We assess the error and quantify its impact, confirm whether formal disclosure is required under FTA thresholds, prepare Form 211 with full supporting explanation, submit it, and manage any FTA follow-up questions until the correction is accepted.
Getting Started
Tell us what you have found, whether through your own review or ours, and we will assess the scale of the issue and prepare the disclosure — most straightforward disclosures are submitted within a week of us receiving full details.
How Errors Are Typically Found
Disclosure for Multiple Periods
Disclosure and Your Ongoing Compliance Record
A properly handled Voluntary Disclosure, submitted promptly once an error is found, generally reflects well on your overall compliance history should the FTA ever review your business more broadly — it demonstrates active oversight of your own VAT position rather than passive reliance on the FTA to catch issues.
After a Disclosure Is Accepted
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Why Businesses Choose Us for Voluntary Disclosure
A disclosure that under-explains the error, or fails to clearly quantify its financial impact, risks a less favourable outcome than one prepared with full context and supporting calculation. We prepare every disclosure the way we would want to receive one if we were reviewing it on the FTA’s side, which is what gives our clients’ disclosures the best possible position.
We also handle the sometimes uncomfortable conversation of explaining exactly what went wrong and why, translating it into a clear, factual narrative for the FTA rather than either over-explaining or leaving gaps that raise further questions.
Clients who have been through this process with us consistently tell us the clarity of communication throughout mattered as much as the technical outcome — knowing exactly where things stood removed much of the stress a disclosure can otherwise carry.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a formal FTA process (Form 211) for correcting an error in a previously filed VAT return, on your own initiative rather than following an FTA audit finding.
It is a formal FTA process (Form 211) for correcting an error in a previously filed VAT return, on your own initiative rather than following an FTA audit finding.
No — only errors above the FTA’s specified threshold require formal disclosure; smaller errors below that threshold can typically be corrected in your next regular return.
The FTA expects disclosure without undue delay once an error is identified — waiting increases both the penalty exposure and the risk the FTA finds it first.
At that point it is generally treated as an FTA-identified error rather than voluntary, but we can still assist in responding accurately and minimising further exposure.