Why Zoho Books is the preferred accounting software of businesses
- Get VAT ready
Zoho Books makes VAT less taxing for small businesses. Set tax preferences, create VAT invoices, and stay tax season ready with Zoho Books.
- Work better together
With role-based access, you can add your colleagues and your accountant to your organisation so they can log time, view reports, or manage your accounts.
- Integrated business platform
As your business grows, add more of Zoho's 50+ apps to help you manage and run every aspect of your business from wherever you are.
Features at a glance
Simplify VAT returns with Zoho Books
- Easy setup
Setting up your VAT configuration in Zoho Books is easy. Just enter your Tax Registration Number, your VAT registration period and start date for generating your first tax return and you are good to go.
- VAT treatment for contacts
Apply the right VAT treatment to each transaction. Zoho Books categorises your customers into VAT registered, non-VAT registered, and non-GCC entities so you can treat each one correctly.
- VAT-compliant documents
Issue invoices, bills, self-issued invoices, and credit/debit notes that meet all the specifications prescribed by the Government mandates. You can also customise these documents to suit your brand's style.
- VAT returns
Zoho Books calculates your VAT liability in consolidated reports that can be easily imported and filed at tax time. The VAT summary report generated covers all of your sales and purchase transactions and your claimable input VAT credit.
Simple and affordable pricing
Powering thousands of businesses

Moiz Sitabkhan, CEO of Conceptualize, needed a cloud-based accounting system to help him drive business forward in the VAT era. Watch how he realised that Zoho Books was the key to managing his financial growth.