UAE Corporate Tax · Returns and registration
UAE tax, without the confusion.
What your company needs to do, when it is due, and what it will cost.
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CT Filing
الضريبة على الشركات · الإقرار الضريبي
- Due date
- 30 September 2026
- Your price
- from AED 499
- Documents
- 4 required
- Filing time
- Up to 5 days
A sample case. Your check produces your own.
Free to check · At your fingertips
So where do you actually stand?
Some questions. Your deadlines, what a late return costs by the month, whether the AED 10,000 is still avoidable, and your Small Business Relief position.
Your position · as at 4 September 2026
Your first tax year
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Your first tax year
The FTA calls this your first tax period. It applies to financial years beginning on or after 1 June 2023, which is why a December year end starts in 2024 rather than 2023.
First return due
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First return due
Nine months after your first tax year ends — or seven, if you want the late-registration penalty waived with it.
Late filing penalty
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Late filing penalty
AED 500 for each month, or part of one, that the return is late — then AED 1,000 a month from the thirteenth.
Registration was due
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Registration was due
From the FTA’s own rule — the month your earliest licence was issued, not the year.
Late registration penalty
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Late registration penalty
Whether the AED 10,000 is still avoidable — and the date that stops being true.
Small Business Relief
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Small Business Relief
Whether revenue under AED 3,000,000 covers you, under the 2026 amendment that runs it to 2029.
Put your licence date in and this fills itself.
Start my return — from AED 499Computed from FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024, Cabinet Decision No. 75 of 2023 and Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022, read 28 August 2026.
Computed from published FTA and Ministry of Finance decisions, cited under each answer. General information about the rules, not advice about your company.
Pick what you need
Fixed prices, published. All of them start with the same free check.
How it works
Eight steps. The first three take about a minute, at 11pm, alone.
- 01
Tell us about your companyYour company
A few questions. No documents, no login.
- 02
See your own caseYour case
Your deadline, your fee and your document list.
- 03
Start, or get scopedStart or scope
Straightforward goes to checkout. Unusual goes to a specialist.
- 04
Meet the person who owns itYour specialist
A case ID, a named specialist and a target date.
- 05
Send your recordsYour records
A list built for your case, not a generic one.
- 06
We do the workWe prepare
Prepared by your specialist, reviewed by a second one.
- 07
You approve itYou approve
Nothing reaches EmaraTax until you press approve.
- 08
Filed, and keptFiled and kept
The submission and the full history stay in your account.
Why people let us file it
- Fixed pricing
- What we quote is what you pay.
- A named specialist
- One person owns your case, and you can message them.
- Nothing filed without you
- Your approval is a state in the system, not a courtesy.
- Secure by default
- Cards go straight to Stripe. Documents sit in private storage.
Frequently asked questions
Do I actually need to register?
If you hold a UAE trade licence, almost certainly yes — profit or no profit, tax owed or none. The free check tells you where you stand in about a minute.
What do you need from me?
For a return: your trade licence, your CT registration certificate, your accounts for the period and a trial balance. For a registration: trade licence, MOA or AOA if there are partners, and an Emirates ID and passport for each owner named on the licence — free zone entities also need the incorporation certificate. That’s the whole list either way.
We made a loss. Is there still a return?
Yes, and it is the return that makes the loss worth something. Tax losses are carried forward against future profits, and the mechanism for carrying them is the filing. A loss year you never filed is a loss you cannot use later.
What happens if I file the return late?
AED 500 for each month, or part of a month, for the first twelve months — then AED 1,000 a month from the thirteenth. One day late is a full month. It is not the AED 10,000 you have heard about: that one is a single charge for registering late, and this one keeps running until the return is in. Unpaid tax accrues separately, at 14% a year.
I’m in a free zone on 0%. Does this apply to me?
Registration and filing, yes. 0% on qualifying income is a rate, not a pass on the paperwork. And whether you’re a Qualifying Free Zone Person is a real test, not a function of your address — one of the few things here we won’t decide from a dropdown. Tell the check you’re in a free zone and it routes you to someone who’ll look properly.
A few minutes now, or AED 500 a month from here.
It ends with your own case on screen — your deadline, your fee, your document list — instead of a phone call.
Check my company — freeFree · No documents · No card.