UAE Tax & Compliance Guides

Ministerial Resolution 340 of 2026 moved UAE payday to the 1st with no grace period. The 85% test, the penalty clock and a WPS checklist for SMEs.

A trading company moves its licence from JAFZA to DMCC and assumes the audit calendar moves with it. It does not. The JAFZA deadline it just left behind falls 90 days after year end. The DMCC deadline it just adopted falls 180 days after year end. And since Ministerial Decision No. 84 of 2025 took

Complete guide to UAE corporate tax deductible and non-deductible expenses under Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022. Covers the 50% entertainment cap, 30% EBITDA interest limit, documentation requirements, and FTA audit penalties.

Step-by-step guide to calculating UAE corporate tax with three worked examples. Covers tax adjustments, non-deductible expenses, loss carry-forward, and the AED 375,000 zero-rate band.

A tax group looks like the obvious move for any UAE holding structure: one return instead of five, losses in one company soaking up profits in another, intra-group invoices that stop mattering for corporate tax. In practice, roughly half the groups we model for clients are better off staying separate. The reason is a single

UAE freelancers and sole proprietors owe corporate tax once business turnover passes AED 1 million. What counts, the 31 March registration deadline, and how Small Business Relief applies.

Real 2026 market prices for corporate tax return filing in Dubai, what drives the fee up or down, and the five questions that protect you from open-ended invoices.

Every month, UAE finance teams either overclaim input VAT on staff and hospitality costs and build up penalty exposure, or underclaim it and quietly donate money to the FTA. The rules sit in Article 53 of the VAT Executive Regulations (Cabinet Decision No. 52 of 2017, as amended), and they are more precise than most

By CA Mohammed Rinshad P R – Harrison & Morgan Business Advisory More than 68,600 UAE businesses have already had their AED 10,000 corporate tax late-registration penalty waived under the Federal Tax Authority’s ongoing initiative – and the FTA expects that number to pass 91,000. The single most important date left in this story is