UAE tax, VAT, bookkeeping & CFO insights — practical guides for business owners.
A UAE audit guide says no audit-free free zone is left in 2026. A small IFZA company can still file simplified statements. Here is the test that decides it.
A popular audit guide gives DMCC 90 days and JAFZA four months. The careful accounts say the opposite: DMCC 180 days, JAFZA 90. Check your zone clock.
A free-zone guide still charges AED 3,000 for ESR filings and fines a missing report AED 25k+. Cabinet Decision No. 98 of 2024 ended ESR for years after 2022.
Free zone audit in the UAE has no general four-month rule. JAFZA, DMCC, DIFC and RAKEZ run four different clocks. Check your zone's real deadline today.
Free zone corporate tax UAE de minimis explained: inside the limit the slice is taxed at 0%, outside it you lose 0% for five years. Check your buckets.
Free zone corporate tax in the UAE: inside the de minimis limit the slice is 0%, not 9%. Breach it and status goes for five periods. Check your buckets.
Meydan audited financial statements: three approved auditors give three renewal answers. The declaration can cost a 0% claimant five years. Check yours.
Mainland permit UAE costs AED 5,000 for six months, but mainland income can be taxed at 9% from the first dirham with no AED 375,000 band. Price the tax first.
Free zone 0% tax UAE ends for five years after one failed condition. Two pages price that failure AED 168,750 apart. Check the band, the audit and your maths.
Economic substance UAE filings ended for years after 2022, but 2019-2022 files still count. Check your quote and your history before you pay or relax.
Transfer pricing in the UAE fails three separate ways: repricing at 9%, a fixed file penalty, and a five-period 0% loss. Test each one before the FTA does.
A dormant company in the UAE still owes a final nil return, deregistration within 3 months and, if it claimed 0%, audited statements. Close it properly.
UAE company redomiciliation lets you move between free zone and mainland without closing. Check the approvals, tax and records tests before you plan it.
Designated Zone distribution in the UAE now needs an agreed-upon procedures report within 30 days of the return deadline. Miss it and your 0% is at risk.