No accounting jargon. Just the practical bits of running a UAE small business: FTA deadlines, Corporate Tax, EmaraTax, and the things that actually trip people up.
The right accounting software makes VAT, Corporate Tax and the coming e-invoicing rules far easier.
Read article →When your input tax is higher than your output tax, the Federal Tax Authority owes you money.
Read article →Corporate Tax added its own audit rule on top of company law and free zone rules.
Read article →Every UAE company has to know who really owns and controls it, write that down, and keep its registrar informed.
Read article →The UAE has stopped asking for economic substance notifications and reports, but not for every year, and not in a way that wipes the slate clean.
Read article →If you own several UAE companies, a Tax Group lets them file one Corporate Tax return as a single taxable person.
Read article →Transfer pricing is not only for multinationals.
Read article →Corporate Tax penalties in the UAE are set out in a fixed schedule, and most of them run by the month.
Read article →Property is taxed very differently depending on who owns it and what kind of building it is.
Read article →Selling online does not change the tax rules, but it does change how the numbers reach you.
Read article →A tax loss in a slow year can cut your Corporate Tax bill in a good year, but only if you keep it alive.
Read article →Corporate Tax is not only for companies.
Read article →A free zone licence does not bring a 0% Corporate Tax rate on its own.
Read article →The questions that separate a firm you will keep from one you will replace next year: people, fees, deadlines, software and leaving.
Read article →Daily sales, delivery app payouts, food cost, stock counts and supplier bills: a monthly routine for F&B owners across the UAE.
Read article →Bank reconciliations, post-dated cheques, annual rent, end-of-service gratuity, VAT control and record keeping, in the order we do them.
Read article →The announced 2027 dates, who goes first, and five practical steps to get your invoices, customer data and software ready.
Read article →A practical month-by-month calendar of FTA return windows, plus the penalty exposure if you miss one.
Read article →Small Business Relief in plain English. Who qualifies, what you give up, and how to decide whether to elect.
Read article →A week-by-week handover checklist, the documents you need to request, and how to dodge the common pitfalls.
Read article →The patterns that put your tax file on the FTA's radar, and the routine bookkeeping habits that keep you out of it.
Read article →What the FTA's portal actually does, the screens that confuse new users, and how to keep your account clean.
Read article →The mechanic that trips up importers and service buyers. Explained with examples and a clean bookkeeping template.
Read article →