UAE Corporate Tax, and the decisions it comes from.

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 financial year ends, and it is due whether you made a profit, a loss, or nothing at all.

Nine months after the end of your financial year. 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.

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.

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.

For most businesses at this size, no — the return is prepared from your accounts 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.