Selling to UK customers from the Gulf can mean registering for UK VAT from your first sale. Overseas businesses do not get the registration threshold that UK businesses do.
What triggers it
Supplying goods or services that are treated as made in the UK. Digital services to consumers and goods held in UK warehouses are the two we see most.
What to do first
Map what you sell, to whom and from where. That one page decides whether you register, and saves most of the cost of getting it wrong.
General information as at October 2026. Not advice for your company: speak to us, or to your own adviser, before you act on it.
