Corporate Tax Consultancy
Registration was handled by someone, you think. The return is due nine months after your year end, and nobody has told you what your taxable income actually is, whether free zone income qualifies for the 0 per cent rate, or whether the related party payments sitting in your accounts would survive a question.
Registered correctly, a return filed inside the nine month window, and a written position on every judgement in it that you can defend if you are asked to.
Corporate Tax Consultancy
Registration was handled by someone, you think. The return is due nine months after your year end, and nobody has told you what your taxable income actually is, whether free zone income qualifies for the 0 per cent rate, or whether the related party payments sitting in your accounts would survive a question.
Registered correctly, a return filed inside the nine month window, and a written position on every judgement in it that you can defend if you are asked to.
How it works
What actually happens, in order.
- 01
Registration and status
We confirm you are registered, and check what you were registered as. An entity classification or tax period set wrong at registration causes problems that only surface at the first return, when they are expensive.
1 to 2 working days
- 02
Position review
Free zone qualifying status, related party transactions, exempt income and available reliefs are assessed against your real activities and documents. This is the part that decides the return.
Before the computation starts
- 03
Computation and return
Taxable income is computed from the financial statements with the adjustments the law requires, and the return is filed on EmaraTax. Every judgement is written down with the reasoning that supports it.
Filed inside the nine month window
- 04
Records and follow up
Computation, working papers and supporting documents are kept together. A question from the FTA two years later then has an answer that does not depend on anyone remembering.
Held for the retention period
What you hand over. What you get back.
What you provide and what we deliver
You provide
- Trade licence and the shareholding structure
- Financial statements for the tax period
- Existing corporate tax registration details
- Related party and connected person transactions
- Free zone licence and substance details, if you are in a free zone
We deliver
- Corporate tax registration, or a review of the existing one
- A written position on free zone status, exemptions and reliefs
- A taxable income computation with every adjustment shown
- The return filed on EmaraTax before the deadline
- Working papers retained against a future FTA question
What it costs
What the fee depends on.
The fee depends on the number of entities, whether a group is involved, whether free zone qualifying status has to be assessed, how many related party transactions need documenting, and the state of the financial statements the computation sits on. Clean accounts make this materially cheaper, which is the honest reason we ask about your bookkeeping first.
The rules, as they stand
What the regulations currently say.
Corporate tax is charged at 0 per cent on taxable income up to AED 375,000 and 9 per cent on taxable income above AED 375,000.
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The Federal Tax Authority requires taxable persons to submit their tax return and settle their corporate tax liability within a period not exceeding nine months from the end of the tax period. A tax period ending 31 December therefore falls due at the end of the following September.
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UAE rules change. These notes are general information, not advice for your entity, and we re-check every one of them on a schedule.
Before you ask
Questions about corporate tax
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When is our corporate tax return due?
Nine months after the end of your tax period, and the payment shares that date. A 31 December year end means the following 30 September. Filing itself is quick. Getting the accounts underneath it into a state that supports a computation is the part that takes time, which is why starting in month three beats starting in month eight.
We are in a free zone. Do we still pay?
You still register and you still file. Whether the 0 per cent rate applies to your income depends on meeting the qualifying conditions, and that is a question about your actual activities, your substance in the free zone and who you sell to. The licence does not answer it on its own. We assess it on your facts and give you the position in writing.
Is there relief for small businesses?
There are reliefs and exemptions in the corporate tax law, and some depend on revenue. Which of them reach you depends on your entity, your revenue and your tax period, and the rules in this area have been amended more than once. We check the current position at the FTA against your specific numbers rather than quoting you a rule that may have moved since it was written down.
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