Previous experienceBusinesses subject to Value Added Tax
Tax Agency registration No. 30001887 — registered to act and correspond on your behalf before the FTA.
Verify on the FTA registerOpens the FTA's official register filtered to this entry (20043873).
Your first Corporate Tax return, reviewed by a registered tax agent
Before the return is filed, a readiness review confirms your tax period and filing date, brings the books to a tax-ready close and tests the reliefs you may qualify for — so the first filing is calm, defensible and on time.
BookReviewPlan & fileWritten readiness planBook a readiness review
Tell us your financial year end. A Corporate Tax specialist responds promptly with the questions we need answered.
A written quote before any work. We use your details only to respond to your request.
What a readiness review covers
Five checks and one written conclusion — before anything is computed or filed.
Tax period & filing date
Your tax period from your licence and financial year, and the date the return is due — within nine months of the end of the tax period.
IncludedRegistration check
Your Corporate Tax registration, entity details and any group or free-zone position, confirmed against what the FTA holds on EmaraTax.
IncludedBooks to a tax-ready close
Whether the financial statements are closed under the accounting standards accepted in the UAE and complete enough to compute from.
IncludedReliefs & elections
Small Business Relief, Qualifying Free Zone Person status and other reliefs, tested against your actual facts.
Agent-reviewedA written readiness plan
What is ready, what is missing and who does what by when — reviewed by a registered tax agent before any further work is quoted.
In writing
What to have ready for the review
Nothing needs to be perfect — the review exists to find what is missing.
- Trade licenceMainland or free zone, with the licensed activities
- Corporate Tax registration certificateOr your EmaraTax reference if registration is still in progress
- Latest financial statements or trial balanceAudited, reviewed or management accounts — whatever you have today
- A note of your structureShareholders, branches, group companies and any related-party dealings
Send your financial year end and the review comes back scoped to it — in writing.
Send my year endFrom booking to a filed return
Three first returns, three different reviews
If one of these describes you, this is the right next step.
Newly registered, first return ahead
You have a registration number and a financial year end — and no one has yet told you what the first return will actually require.
Tax period · books · reliefsFree zone, unsure whether your income qualifies
Your income may or may not be qualifying income, and the conditions have never been tested against what you actually do.
Free-zone status · substance · de minimisA group or related-party dealings
More than one entity, shareholder dealings or intra-group charges — and no documentation to support them yet.
Related parties · documentation · disclosuresWhat the return is built from
Accounting profitAdjustmentsTaxable income0% bandTaxed at 9%LiabilityA readiness review ends with a written plan — what to fix, in what order, before the return.
Prepared by a specialist and reviewed by a senior. Tax-related work is reviewed by a Registered Tax Agent where relevant. Nothing is filed before you approve it.
This page describes a scoped review. Deadlines, thresholds and reliefs are as published by the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority; what applies to you is confirmed against your own facts. A written scope and quote precede any work.
Three questions we hear before every first return
Short, factual answers. Your own position is what the review settles.
Within nine months of the end of the relevant tax period. Your tax period follows your financial year, so the date differs by entity — confirming it is the first thing the review does.
That is the most common starting point, and it is not a barrier. The review identifies what the close still needs and scopes the work to get there.
Scope first. After a short consultation you receive a written scope and a written quote for the review itself, before any work begins.
Start with a review, not a scramble
Send the form with your financial year end; a Corporate Tax specialist responds promptly.
