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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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No card needed. One account works across every Arakan app.

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.

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.

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

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Onboard

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Shield

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Ledger

Clients' FTA compliance

Scout

Planning your UAE setup

Atlas

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UAE rulebook library

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