Justin Whitehouse is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC in Dubai. He brings more than 30 years of experience in indirect taxes.
At A&M, Mr. Whitehouse’s primary role is leading and building the Middle East Indirect Tax practice. His focus areas also include building new global indirect tax service offerings and executing complementary alliances with third party vendors to help clients address the increasingly complex indirect tax regulatory landscape.
Mr. Whitehouse has worked with clients across a range of industries, including real estate, travel and tourism, consumer products and e-commerce, as well as private equity and public sector. He was involved in the drafting of the indirect tax laws in more than one of the GCC countries in the lead up to the introduction of VAT.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Whitehouse spent five years with EY leading their London region VAT practice, focused on advising mid-market and large corporates on managing their indirect tax affairs cross border.
Previously, Mr. Whitehouse spent 15 years with Deloitte in a variety of leadership roles, including the London VAT practice lead, Middle East VAT practice lead and the Global Public Sector leader for tax.
Mr. Whitehouse earned a Chartered Tax Advisor qualification from the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
The Romanian Prime Minister has reintroduced legislation raising the standard VAT rate from 19% to 21% and replacing the existing 5% and 9% VAT rates by a new reduced rate of 11% with effect from 1 August 2025 (supply date driven).
On June 17, 2025, the UAE Federal Tax Authority (FTA) issued a new decision establishing clear rules for reporting natural losses of excise goods in Designated Zones.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently went through a major VAT Law reform. The reform was codified by way of the release of Cabinet Decision No. 100 of 2024, which introduced 35 updates to 34 (out of 75) Articles across the Executive Regulations to Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on VAT, and came into effect on 15 November 2024.
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