Owners often assume that once they decide to close a company the compliance stops. We see the opposite at audit.ae. Liquidation does not switch off your audit duties. It adds one. Most UAE free zones and authorities require a final audit before they will let a company close. Skip it and the liquidation itself stalls, […]

Many JAFZA business owners assume the audit is a formality they can handle near renewal. We correct that often at audit.ae. JAFZA is one of the oldest and most established free zones in the UAE, and its compliance expectations are firm. The JAFZA audit requirements are tied to your licence, so a late or missing […]

The FTA does not announce a VAT review far in advance. We see the result of that at audit.ae. A business gets the notice then scrambles to find tax invoices and reconcile returns it filed months ago. A VAT audit checklist exists for exactly this moment. It turns a stressful FTA review into a routine […]

Businesses often assume VAT only works one way. You register and you stay registered. We correct this often at audit.ae. A company stops trading or its turnover falls yet it keeps its VAT registration active and never applies to cancel it.  That inaction is a breach in itself. VAT deregistration in UAE is a duty […]

Businesses often reach us at audit.ae after they have already crossed the threshold. They were trading happily, unaware that VAT registration became compulsory once their turnover passed a set line. By then a penalty is already in play. VAT registration in UAE is not something to deal with later. It is triggered the moment your […]

Businesses often come to us at audit.ae only after a foreign tax office has asked for proof. They need to show they are tax resident in the UAE and they have nothing on hand. A tax residency certificate in UAE is the document that proves it. Without it you can lose treaty benefits and face […]

Owners often tell us transfer pricing is a big-company problem. We hear it a lot at audit.ae. Then they discover that a simple loan between two companies they own falls squarely inside the rules. Transfer pricing in UAE is not reserved for multinationals. It applies to dealings between connected parties and far more businesses have […]

Imagine a small design studio owner who closes the year with revenue well under AED 3 million. She hears that small businesses pay no corporate tax and decides she can ignore the whole topic. Months later she learns that relief is something you claim and not something you receive automatically. Her return was never filed. […]

A catering owner in Al Quoz opened his EmaraTax account for the first time last week. A penalty of AED 10,000 was already waiting there. His trade licence was issued in March 2021 so his deadline had been 30 June 2024. Nobody had told him that the deadline follows the month of the licence and […]