Corporate Tax
UAE Corporate Tax registration deadlines, explained plainly
Who has to register, when the return actually falls due, and what your options are if a deadline has already gone past.
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Insights
UAE tax, decoded.
Practical guidance on Corporate Tax, VAT, audit and structuring. Written for the people who actually have to act on it, not for other advisers.
Corporate Tax
Free-zone qualifying income: the conditions that actually matter
Substance, qualifying activities, de-minimis thresholds and the documentation behind a 0% position that survives review.
VAT
A practical VAT health check for UAE businesses
Nine checks worth running on your own records before the Federal Tax Authority runs them for you.
Advisory
Pillar Two is a data problem before it's a tax problem
Why groups approaching the threshold should start with their reporting systems, not their effective rate calculation.
Transfer Pricing
The related parties most UAE businesses forget to disclose
Shareholder loans, director remuneration and informal cost sharing all fall inside the definition. Most disclosure forms miss them.
Accounting
Your accounting records became a tax document. Now what?
Corporate Tax changed the standard your books are held to. Here's what a compliant record set actually looks like.
VAT
Zero-rating exports: the evidence you need to hold
Treating an export as zero-rated without the required documentation makes the tax payable by you. Here's the file to keep.
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