UAE Corporate Tax · Returns and registration
Your UAE Corporate Tax filing. Checked, prepared and filed.
Check your company first — free, no documents, no card. Straightforward cases get their exact fee, deadline and document list on the spot. Ours is from AED 499, prepared by a named specialist and filed on EmaraTax only once you approve it.
No calls. No callbacks. No “send your trade licence and we’ll revert”.
Free · No documents · No card · No login.
- 7,000+ businesses
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Corporate Tax · Return
الضريبة على الشركات · الإقرار الضريبي
Accounts are final. That price is yours.
- Filing late
- AED 500 / month
- Doing it now
- from AED 499
- Turnaround
- ≤ 5 business days
- Documents from you
- 4
- Filed on
- EmaraTax
Illustrative record. Your check produces your own.
Filing and books for UAE companies including
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.
Every line of the record opens onto the rule it came from.
Your position · as at 3 September 2026
First tax period
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First tax period
Corporate tax 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 period 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 the free checkYou are not sure whether the company is registered. We start with the return and check the FTA register on the first question — one lookup, no charge either way.
Computed 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.
§ 02 · Pick your service
All of them start with the same free check.
CT Registration
No TRN yet? Avoid AED 10,000 penalty.
- Taxable person record
- Full EmaraTax registration
- Certificate + first-period brief
VAT Registration
Crossed AED 375,000? This is already due.
- Threshold check first
- Registration on EmaraTax
- Your TRN + first-return brief
CT Filing
You have the TRN. This is the one that’s actually due.
- Return prepared from your accounts
- Small Business Relief elected where it applies
- Second specialist reviews it before it moves
- Filed only on your approval
Not sure which one you need? Start any of them. Need something else instead? We’ll say so during the check — not after you’ve paid for the wrong thing.
§ 03 · The Product Thing
Few screens. That’s the whole thing.
Not a demo you book. These are the real screens, running on the same catalogue and the same rules the real ones do.
9 questions. One answer.
No login, no documents, no card required.
- Straightforward — book at the price on this page.
- A bit unusual — a specialist confirms scope within a day.
- Genuinely messy — we scope it before charging you.
Do you already have a Corporate Tax registration number?
Your case is straightforward
Your licence and documents check out, so we can price this now and start immediately.
Two of the three verdicts do not end in a payment. That is deliberate.
Hala knows your case
She’s on every screen, reading your live case — price, documents, deadline, status. When a question needs tax judgment, she hands you to a named human.
- Answers from live case data, so she can’t invent a status.
- Says so plainly when she isn’t connected, instead of guessing.
- One tap to a specialist, whole thread attached.
You don't have to ask where it is.
Every status comes from a real action from the staff.
- A live timeline, and the one thing it’s waiting on right now.
- A written update every Friday, movement or not.
- Nothing reaches the FTA until you’ve read it and pressed approve.
- Setting up your case
- Your documents
- Under review
- Preparing your submission
- Your approval
- With the FTA
- Complete
Your documents
- Trade Licence
- CT Registration certificate
- Financial statements for the period
- Trial balance
Friday update
Your EmaraTax entry is drafted. Nothing goes to the FTA until you have read it and pressed approve — that is the next thing that will land in your inbox.
§ 04 · Before you pay us anything
Seven things you should want answered first.
- 01
Is this a real UAE company?
Dubai-based, backed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, filing on EmaraTax for UAE entities every working day. Not an offshore back office with a local phone number.
- 02
Do companies like mine already use this?
7,000+ businesses and 4.9★ on Trustpilot. Mainland and free zone, first-time filers and companies on their second return.
- 03
Who is actually doing the work?
A named specialist owns your case from the moment you pay. Not a shared inbox and not whoever is free that week. You get their name, and you can message them from your case page.
- 04
What exactly happens after I pay?
A case ID, your named owner, a target date and the exact list of documents we need. Then a live status page showing what we are waiting on, plus a written update every Friday whether anything moved or not.
- 05
Will the price change later?
The check prices your case before you pay, not after we open the file. If your case turns out to need work beyond what you bought, you approve the difference or take a full refund. We do not bill by the hour and we do not send a second invoice you did not agree to.
- 06
Can you submit something to the FTA without me?
No. A second specialist reviews every return, and your approval is a state in the system rather than a courtesy — staff cannot skip past it. Nothing reaches EmaraTax until you press approve.
- 07
What happens if something goes wrong?
Every status change is written to an append-only log with who did it and when, so what you were told last Tuesday is still there. A human is one tap from every screen. If we cannot file your case honestly, we say so and refund you rather than taking the fee and chasing you for six weeks.
- businesses trust Finanshels
- 7,000+businesses trust Finanshels
- rated on Trustpilot
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- in penalties saved
- AED 5M+in penalties saved
- experts
- 150+experts
Payment runs through Stripe — card details go from your browser straight to Stripe and never reach our servers. Passports and Emirates IDs go to private storage, served through short-lived signed links, so there is no public URL to leak.
§ 05 · The people who sign it
The names on your case, and the bench behind them.
- 500+
- years combined
- 150+
- team members

Muhammed Shafeekh, CMA
Founder & Chief Executive

Muhammed Musthafa
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Suhail KY, CMA
Head of Operations

Jaydeep Khamkar, CA
Financial Controller & Account Manager

Jasmeet Monga, ACCA
Financial Controller & Account Manager

Krishna Subash Nair
AML & Compliance Manager

Gautam Sanoj
Associate Manager, Tax Advisory
§ 06 · What the check decides
Not every case should be sold a checkout.
Price on the spot
Accounts closed, licence active, nothing unusual in the structure. You see your exact fee, your deadline and your document list, and you can start immediately.
Checkout opens
A specialist confirms scope first
A free zone position to test, a part-year period, a restructure mid-year. We do not guess at these. A specialist reads your case and confirms the scope, normally within one business day.
No charge until you approve the scope
We tell you instead of selling you
Draft accounts, an expired licence, a return with nothing closed behind it. Taking your money here would buy you a six-week chase. The check names what is missing and what to fix.
No checkout, and nothing owed
§ 07 · The whole thing, start to finish
What the next few weeks actually look like.
- 01A few minutes
Tell us about your company
Your year end, your accounts, your TRN. No documents, no login, no card.
- 02Right then
See your own case
Your deadline, your fee, your turnaround, your document list, and a plain verdict on whether this is straightforward or not.
- 03Same day, or one business day
Start, or get scoped
Straightforward cases go to checkout at the price you were shown. Unusual ones go to a specialist first, and nothing is charged until you approve the scope.
Two ways out of this step
- 04Immediately
Meet the person who owns it
A case ID, a named specialist, a target date and the outstanding list — in the browser and on WhatsApp, immediately.
- 05Ten minutes
Send your records
A list built for your case, not a generic one. Statements and a trial balance for a return; licence and IDs for a registration.
- 06Clock starts when documents land
We do the work
Prepared by your specialist, then reviewed by a second one. You watch it move on a status page and get a written update every Friday.
- 07Your call
You approve it
You see the return before the FTA does. Nothing reaches EmaraTax until you press approve — it is a state in the system, not a promise.
- 08Permanent
Filed, and kept
The submission, the confirmation and the full history stay in your account. Next year we already know your company, so there is less to ask for.
§ 08 · The difference, in a table
Different fortnight.
§ 09 · Before the calculation
Who has to register and file? Almost certainly you.
Mainland LLC
Register and file
Profit or no profit.
Free zone company
Register and file
0% on qualifying income is still a filing.
Company that made a loss
Register and file
The return is how the loss gets carried.
Dormant company with a live licence
Register and file
The licence is the trigger, not the trading.
Revenue under AED 3 million
Register and file
Then elect relief and owe nothing.
Branch of a foreign company
Usually
A permanent establishment is in scope. Worth a specialist.
It’s "register and file" for essentially every licensed business. What changes is what you owe afterwards — for a lot of companies, nothing.
§ 10 · The actual tax
Nobody else will just tell you the rate. So:
First AED 375,000 of taxable income
Every business gets this slice at nil.
Taxable income above AED 375,000
Only the amount above the threshold, not the whole profit.
Qualifying Free Zone Person, on Qualifying Income
Qualifying is a test, not an address.
Late registration
Charged once, and not scaled to your profit — or to zero profit.
Late filing, each month or part of one
For twelve months, then AED 1,000. It keeps running: two years is AED 19,000.
Tax owed and unpaid
Charged monthly, alongside the filing penalty rather than instead of it.
Multinational groups above the global threshold also face a Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax. If that is you, you have a tax department.
Source: Cabinet Decision No. 116 of 2022 · Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022. Read 28 August 2026.
§ 11 · The job this page is actually for
Registration was the form. The return is the work.
Nine months after your period ends
A 31 December 2025 year end is due 30 September 2026. Your first period is often not the year you expect.
Owing nothing is not the same as filing nothing
A loss, a dormant year, Small Business Relief — all of them are filed, and relief has to be elected inside the return.
The books have to exist first
A return is computed from financial statements. If yours aren’t closed, there is nothing to compute.
Unpaid tax is a separate meter
Tax you owe and haven’t settled accrues 14% a year, alongside the filing penalty rather than instead of it.
Source: Cabinet Decision No. 75 of 2023 · Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022. Read 28 August 2026.
What a late return costs, by the month
غرامة التأخر في تقديم الإقرار
| Months late | Accrued |
|---|---|
| One day, or one month | AED 500 |
| 6 months | AED 3,000 |
| 12 months | AED 6,000 |
| 13 monthsAED 1,000 a month from here | AED 7,000 |
| 17 months | AED 11,000 |
| 24 months | AED 18,000 |
AED 500 a month for the first 12, then AED 1,000. By month 17 it has passed the AED 10,000 everyone talks about, and it does not stop there.
Check my filing date§ 12 · Amended 7 August 2026
Small Business Relief didn’t end with 2026.
AED 3,000,000 of revenue, not profit
And it has to hold in every previous period too. One good year above the line closes the door.
You still file a return
Relief removes the tax, not the filing. A business that skips the return because it owed nothing is late, not exempt.
You have to elect it
A choice made inside the return, every year. Nobody applies it to you automatically.
Two groups cannot have it at all
Qualifying Free Zone Persons, and multinational groups above AED 3.15 billion. Both exclusions are absolute.
Source: Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026 · FTA — Small Business Relief. Read 28 August 2026.
§ 13 · If you’re already late
The AED 10,000 is waivable. The waiver has a deadline.
Source: FTA — late registration penalty waiver. Read 28 August 2026.
- It covers you whether you registered late and were fined, or never registered at all.
- Already paid it? The FTA credits it back to your EmaraTax account.
- Seven months, not nine. Using the normal window is how people lose a waiver they had.
- Miss the seven months and the penalty stands. We’ll tell you that rather than sell you hope.
§ 14 · Asked constantly
The questions you were about to ask chatgpt or claude.
I’m registered already. What’s actually due now?
Your corporate tax return. Registration got you a TRN and nothing else — it did not file anything and it did not compute any tax. The return is due nine months after your tax period ends, and it is due whether you made a profit, a loss, or nothing at all.
When exactly is my corporate tax return due?
Nine months after the end of your tax period. A 31 December 2025 year end means 30 September 2026; a 30 June 2026 year end means 31 March 2027. The tool higher up this page works out your first period and both dates from your licence date and year end, free and without an email address.
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.
My books aren’t finished. Can you still file?
Not honestly, no — a return is computed from accounts, and a return filed off numbers nobody closed is a correction waiting to happen. Tell the check your accounts are draft or not started and it says so before you pay, instead of taking the fee and chasing you for six weeks.
Do the accounts have to be audited?
For most businesses at this size, no — the return is prepared from your financial statements whether or not an auditor signed them. Audit is a separate obligation that depends on your licence and your revenue. The check asks, because the answer changes what we need from you, not what you pay.
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.
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.
If the price is right there, why do a check?
Because the price isn’t the only thing you need. The check works out which deadline applies to you, what documents we’ll need, and whether your case is in a state we can file against at all. It also catches the ones we shouldn’t take your money for yet — an expired licence, an offshore entity, a return with no closed accounts behind it — before you’ve paid anything.
Is the price really fixed?
Really fixed. Registrations are a flat fee and we don’t bill by the hour. If your case needs work beyond what you bought, you approve the difference or take a full refund — your call. Filings start at the listed price because the effort depends on the accounts behind them, and the check tells you where yours lands.
What if my licence has expired or is mid-renewal?
Tell the check. It routes you to a specialist instead of taking money for something we can’t file yet. Finding that out costs nothing.
Who does the actual filing?
A named specialist on our team, working directly on EmaraTax. Every return is then reviewed by a second specialist before it goes anywhere. You get a name, you can message them, and nothing reaches the FTA until you’ve approved it.
How long does it take?
Up to 5 business days for a return, up to 20 for a registration. The clock starts when your documents land, not when you pay — and you get a written update every Friday either way.
I already got the AED 10,000 penalty. Now what?
Registering is still the next thing you do, and the sooner it’s done the less there is to argue about. We won’t pretend an issued fine can be waved away — we’ll get you registered and tell you plainly what your options look like.
Do I have to talk to anyone?
Only if you want to. Every screen has an assistant, and one tap gets you a specialist. Otherwise it’s entirely self-serve, at 11pm, in your pyjamas.
Small Business Relief means I owe nothing. Do I still have to do this?
Yes — and this misunderstanding causes most of the AED 10,000 penalties we see. Relief removes the tax, not the registration or the return. You have to be registered, you have to file, and you have to ELECT the relief inside that return every year. Nobody applies it for you. Revenue under AED 3 million with no filing isn’t exempt, it’s late.
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.
What do you need from me?
For a return: your trade licence, your CT registration certificate, the financial statements 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.
Still unsure? Start the check anyway. It is free, it takes two minutes, and it ends with an answer either way.
§ 15 · In their words, not ours
Six of the seven thousand.
4.9★ on Trustpilot · 7,000+ UAE businesses
They designed an accounting system tailor made to our needs & completely automated our finance operations.
Jeremy Khatar
CEO, Ronin Global LLC
Fast, friendly, and very professional. I love how communicative they were handling our Corporate tax.
Abdulla Al-Ogail
Co-founder & CEO, Olymon
Finanshels team is very professional. They have been handling ZWAG AI’s accounts since 2022.
Priya M Nair
Founder, ZWAG AI
We are genuinely happy with the way Finanshels have been handling our accounts since day one.
Nassib Sawaya
Director, UAE Business
Always very responsive, supportive, having a business mindset, providing visuals and on top of all that.
Szilvia Vitos
Founder, Livvity
If you ever do any financial modeling/forecasting, I seriously can’t recommend Finanshels enough.
Bader Al Kazimi
Founder, Optimize App
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.
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