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How to Reduce Corporate Tax in UAE Legally — 7 Proven Strategies for 2026
Legal tax reduction in Dubai: 7 FTA-compliant ways to reduce corporate tax in the UAE, from Small Business Relief and QFZP to smarter deductions.
Key takeaways
- UAE corporate tax rate is 9% above AED 375,000; income up to AED 375,000 is taxed at 0%
- Small Business Relief (revenue ≤ AED 3M) drops taxable income to zero for periods ending on or before 31 Dec 2029
- Qualifying Free Zone Persons pay 0% on qualifying income if substance and de minimis tests hold
- Tax losses carry forward indefinitely and offset up to 75% of future taxable income
- Participation exemption covers dividends and capital gains on 5%+ stakes held 12+ months
- General Interest Deduction Limitation caps net interest at 30% of EBITDA (Article 30)
Under Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, the UAE applies 9% corporate tax above AED 375,000 of taxable income. The headline rate is one of the lowest going, and UAE tax policy deliberately layers a set of reliefs around it that most SMEs underuse. This guide covers seven legal levers to reduce corporate tax in the UAE, the documentation each one needs, and a worked example that shows how stacking them moves the effective rate from 9% to near zero without straying into aggressive territory. It is an educational walk-through of legitimate corporate tax planning in the UAE, not a filing service — if you want the elections modelled and lodged on your own return, that is what our corporate tax services in Dubai and the UAE team does.
How to reduce corporate tax in the UAE, step by step
If you want the short answer to how to reduce corporate tax in the UAE, it is a sequence rather than a single trick. Reducing taxable income is the whole game here, because corporate tax in Dubai and everywhere else in the country is charged on that figure rather than on turnover. Work through the sequence in order and most of the saving falls out on its own.
- Check revenue against the AED 3 million Small Business Relief threshold first. If you are under it, that election alone can take taxable income to zero for periods ending on or before 31 December 2029.
- Clean the ledger. Strip out personal costs, cap entertainment at 50%, and make sure every deduction is wholly and exclusively for the business.
- Set the first AED 375,000 of taxable income against the 0% band that every resident business gets.
- Offset brought-forward losses, up to 75% of what remains.
- If you sit in a free zone, confirm your Qualifying Free Zone Person status still holds before you rely on the 0% rate.
- Only then work through interest limits, foreign tax credits and the participation exemption.
Run those steps as one calculation before you file, not as separate afterthoughts, because the order changes the number. Each of the seven strategies below expands one of these steps, with the documentation the Federal Tax Authority expects to see behind it. If you would rather have the sequence modelled on your own figures, that is what our corporate tax advisory team in Dubai prepares with you.
How the 9% rate actually works
The UAE corporate tax law — Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022 — builds the charge in stages, and reducing taxable income means intervening at the right stage. Taxable income starts with audited accounting profit. Add back non-deductible items. Deduct exempt income, which is where a tax exemption such as the participation exemption does its work. Apply Small Business Relief or QFZP elections. Then offset losses. Only after all that do you reach the 9% base. The smaller the base, the smaller the bill. Every relief in this guide changes one specific stage of that chain, which is exactly why order matters more than most owners realise.
| Income Band | Rate | Tax on AED 1,000,000 Profit |
|---|---|---|
| AED 0 - 375,000 | 0% | AED 0 |
| Above AED 375,000 | 9% | AED 56,250 |
| QFZP qualifying income | 0% | AED 0 |
| QFZP non-qualifying (de minimis breached) | 9% | Full income taxed |
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9%
Standard corporate tax rate above AED 375,000
Source: Federal Decree-Law 47/2022, Article 3
The Federal Tax Authority administers the regime through EmaraTax. Every juridical person incorporated in the UAE, every foreign company with a UAE permanent establishment, and every natural person trading above AED 1M annual turnover is in scope from the first financial year starting on or after 1 June 2023.
Strategy 1 - Elect Small Business Relief (if eligible)
Small Business Relief under Article 21 and Ministerial Decision 73/2023 is the strongest lever for SMEs that qualify. The UAE corporate tax Small Business Relief AED 3 million revenue threshold is the gate: if total revenue for the period is AED 3 million or less, the election treats taxable income as zero. You still register, keep records and file the return.
The election is not automatic. It is made line by line on the EmaraTax return for each qualifying period. Non-residents, free zone entities and members of MNE groups in scope of Pillar Two cannot use it. Our full guide to UAE corporate tax Small Business Relief in 2026 walks through the eligibility maths and the election step by step. Ministerial Decision 131/2026 extended the relief; it now applies to periods ending on or before 31 December 2029.
Strategy 2 - Clean up your deductible expenses
Every dirham of documented expense cuts taxable income by one dirham. At 9%, that is nine fils saved per dirham spent, which sounds small until you tally a year of it. Audit your ledger against FTA guidance on deductibility before filing. The adjustments that most often surface at year end are personal costs paid through the company card, entertainment above the 50% cap and undocumented director expenses. None of those are exotic. They’re just the things nobody tidies up until the deadline forces it.
| Category | Deductibility |
|---|---|
| Office rent, utilities | 100% if wholly for business |
| Salaries, end-of-service, allowances | 100% |
| Professional fees (accounting, legal, advisory) | 100% |
| Marketing, advertising | 100% |
| Business travel with evidence | 100% |
| Software subscriptions | 100% |
| Depreciation per FTA schedules | 100% |
| Interest on business borrowings | Subject to 30% EBITDA cap (Article 30) |
| Entertainment expenses | 50% cap |
| Administrative fines, penalties | 0% |
| Personal expenses | 0% |
| Donations to non-qualifying entities | 0% |
For day-to-day bookkeeping that keeps records audit-ready, see our accounting and bookkeeping services.
Strategy 3 - Hold or rebuild QFZP status
A Qualifying Free Zone Person pays 0% on qualifying income. The regime is real, but it is documentation-heavy. Qualifying income includes transactions with other free zone businesses and income from approved qualifying activities — manufacturing, processing, logistics, holding shares, headquarters services, fund management, and treasury and financing for related parties.
Non-qualifying income is capped at the lower of AED 5 million or 5% of total revenue. Cabinet Decision 100/2023 Article 4 sets the framework; the figures themselves come from Ministerial Decision 229/2025 Article 3, which repealed and replaced Ministerial Decision 265/2023. Breach the de minimis and the entire period’s income is taxed at 9%, not just the excess. Substance must be genuine: real employees, physical premises in the free zone, and the core income-generating activity actually performed inside the zone.
| QFZP Requirement | Threshold | Consequence of Breach |
|---|---|---|
| Adequate substance | Real employees, assets, core activity in free zone | Loss of QFZP for that period and the next four |
| Qualifying income sources | Free zone counterparties or qualifying activity list | Non-qualifying portion taxed at 9% |
| De minimis on non-qualifying | Lower of AED 5M or 5% of total revenue | Full income taxed at 9% if breached |
| Audited financial statements | Annual, per Ministerial Decision 84/2025 | Non-compliance removes status |
| Transfer pricing | Arm’s length on related-party flows | FTA upward profit adjustment |
AED 5M
De minimis ceiling on non-qualifying QFZP revenue (or 5% of total)
Source: Ministerial Decision 229/2025, Article 3
The consequence column is the part most owners underestimate, and it is worth reading the wording itself. Under Article 5(2) of Ministerial Decision 229/2025, a Qualifying Free Zone Person that fails any condition at any point in a tax period “shall cease to be a Qualifying Free Zone Person from the beginning of the relevant Tax Period and for the subsequent (4) four Tax Periods.”
That is five tax periods at 9%, not one. Article 18(2) of Federal Decree-Law 47/2022, read alone, ends the status from the start of the failing period — the four-year tail is added by the Ministerial Decision, and it is the reason a single missed audit or a de minimis breach in one bad quarter is a five-year problem rather than a one-year one. Before restructuring anything in a free zone entity, model the cost of losing the rate for five periods, not one.
For the full picture, see free zone corporate tax UAE.
Strategy 4 - Plan loss carry-forwards before you need them
Tax losses carry forward indefinitely under Article 37. In each future period they can offset up to 75% of taxable income. There is no time limit. The 75% cap means even a fully shielded business still pays tax on 25% of profit until the losses run out.
The real question is when to use them. If the next two or three years look profitable, paying a small current-year bill while preserving losses for larger future income can beat an SBR election today. We model both before recommending either path.
For deeper mechanics, see UAE corporate tax losses.
Strategy 5 - Keep net interest under the Article 30 cap
Article 30 caps net interest expense at the higher of 30% of adjusted EBITDA or AED 12 million per tax period. Disallowed interest carries forward up to 10 years. Most SMEs sit well below the AED 12M de minimis and never feel it. Highly leveraged groups, acquisition-financed entities and real estate developers need the cap modelled before signing financing agreements.
For groups with related-party loans, the cap interacts with transfer pricing rules. Interest priced above arm’s length is reduced first under transfer pricing, then what is left is tested against the Article 30 cap. Document both the rate and the purpose. The audit cycle will ask.
Strategy 6 - Get transfer pricing right before the FTA asks
The UAE follows the OECD arm’s length standard. All intercompany flows — management fees, IP charges, loans, services — must be priced at what unrelated parties would agree. Done properly, this allocates income and deductions across entities in ways that minimise group-wide tax without bending any rules.
Groups above AED 200M revenue must maintain a Master File and Local File. Smaller groups should still keep the basics on file: signed inter-company agreements, a one-page transfer pricing policy and a simple benchmarking analysis. No documentation at all routinely triggers upward adjustments during FTA audits.
The cheapest transfer pricing file is the one prepared before you need it. The most expensive is the one reconstructed during an FTA audit cycle.
For the international dimension, see UAE country-by-country reporting 2026.
Strategy 7 - Use participation exemption and foreign tax credits
Dividends and capital gains on a 5% or larger shareholding held for 12 months or more are exempt when the investee is subject to a comparable minimum tax rate. That makes UAE holding companies useful for groups with foreign subsidiaries, investment portfolios or a planned exit on the horizon.
For UAE-source income earned abroad, foreign tax paid can be credited against UAE liability. The credit is capped at the lower of foreign tax paid or the UAE tax that would apply to the same income at 9%. Keep certified foreign tax receipts. Excess foreign tax cannot be refunded or carried forward.
5% / 12 months
Participation exemption minimum shareholding and holding period
Source: Federal Decree-Law 47/2022, Article 23
Example: stacking the levers on a real return
A mainland LLC reports for the tax period ending 31 December 2025:
| Item | Amount (AED) |
|---|---|
| Gross revenue | 2,400,000 |
| Accounting net profit | 575,000 |
| Non-deductible add-backs (fines, personal costs) | 30,000 |
| Adjusted profit before reliefs | 605,000 |
| Carried-forward losses available | 120,000 |
| Maximum loss offset (75% of 605,000) | 453,750 (only AED 120,000 available) |
| Taxable income after loss offset | 485,000 |
Path A - pay the tax:
- First AED 375,000 at 0% = AED 0
- Remaining AED 110,000 at 9% = AED 9,900
Path B - elect Small Business Relief:
Revenue is AED 2.4M, below the AED 3M threshold. SBR sets taxable income to zero. Tax payable = AED 0. Trade-off: the AED 120,000 carried-forward loss is forfeited.
What we’d do: model year two. If projected profit jumps to AED 1.2M next year, preserving the AED 120,000 loss saves AED 10,800 in future tax versus AED 9,900 paid today. The difference is small, so SBR usually wins. If year two looks similar to year one, the same logic holds more strongly.
Deadlines you cannot move
| Event | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Corporate tax registration | Within 3 months of incorporation (post 1 March 2024) |
| Return and payment, 31 Dec 2025 year-end | 30 September 2026 |
| Return and payment, 30 June 2025 year-end | 31 March 2026 |
| Return and payment, 31 March 2026 year-end | 31 December 2026 |
| Small Business Relief election | Made on the return for the relevant period |
| Transfer pricing Master File / Local File | Available on FTA request |
For the full filing walk-through, see corporate tax filing UAE 2026 guide.
Penalties that wipe out the saving
Failing to manage obligations correctly triggers penalties that wipe out reliefs. The most common:
| Violation | Penalty |
|---|---|
| Late registration | AED 10,000 |
| Late return filing | AED 500/month (yr 1), AED 1,000/month (yr 2+) |
| Late payment | 14% per annum (~1.17% monthly) |
| Record-keeping failure | AED 10,000 first; AED 20,000 repeat |
| Transfer pricing non-compliance | Upward adjustment plus penalties |
| Incorrect return with tax shortfall | AED 500 fixed plus 14% p.a. on shortfall |
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See UAE corporate tax penalties for the full scale.
Where SMEs most often slip up
| Mistake | Why It Costs | What We’d Do |
|---|---|---|
| Missing SBR election on a qualifying return | Up to AED 225,000 in avoidable tax | Make the election actively; not automatic |
| SBR in a loss year without modelling | Forfeit future shielding worth more | Run a two-year forecast first |
| Free zone substance shortfall | Loses 0% rate for the entire period | Annual substance review, never assume |
| Mixed personal and business expenses | FTA upward adjustment | Separate accounts, separate cards |
| No transfer pricing file | FTA assumes non-arm’s length | Draft a one-pager and benchmarking |
| Ignoring Article 30 interest cap | Excess interest disallowed | Model net interest against 30% EBITDA |
How the reliefs interact (the order matters)
The seven levers above are not independent. Stack them in the wrong order and you can cancel benefits worth more than the tax saved. Three interactions matter most. SBR forfeits loss carry-forward for the elected period. QFZP status requires audited statements that have to support arm’s length transfer pricing. And the Article 30 interest cap is calculated after add-backs and loss offsets, not before.
We model these as a single waterfall before filing. The election cell sits on row five, after deductions and depreciation but before loss offsets. Move it earlier or later and the resulting tax differs materially. That is what turns the seven levers into a coherent plan instead of a checklist.
Legal tax reduction in Dubai: using the rules, not bending them
Legal tax reduction in Dubai runs on exactly the same federal law as the rest of the country. Corporate tax under Federal Decree-Law 47/2022 is a UAE-wide regime, so a Dubai company lowers its bill using the same reliefs a Sharjah or Abu Dhabi one does: Small Business Relief, the 0% band, loss offsets, the QFZP rate and the participation exemption. There is no separate Dubai rate and no Dubai-only loophole. What differs is the mix of options in front of you, because Dubai holds the largest cluster of free zones in the country.
The line between legal reduction and something the FTA will unwind is straightforward. Electing a relief you genuinely qualify for, documenting deductions, and pricing related-party deals at arm’s length are all legitimate. Backdating invoices, routing personal spend through the company, or claiming QFZP status without real substance are not, and the five-year audit window gives the authority time to find them. Sound free zone corporate tax planning sits firmly on the right side of that line. If your revenue is under AED 3 million, Small Business Relief usually reaches the same zero with far less to prove.
Dubai free zone or mainland: where the 0% actually lives
For a Dubai business weighing legal tax reduction, the practical question is usually mainland versus free zone. Both are taxed under the same law but reach 0% by different routes. A mainland Dubai company gets there mainly through the AED 375,000 band, Small Business Relief while it lasts, and disciplined deductions. A free zone company can also qualify for the 0% QFZP rate on qualifying income, provided it keeps real substance in the zone, stays inside the de minimis ceiling on non-qualifying income, and files audited statements.
Dubai’s free zones — DMCC, DIFC, JAFZA, Meydan and IFZA among them — each set their own licensing and activity rules, yet corporate tax judges them all under one federal QFZP framework. A recruitment consultancy licence in DMCC, a trading licence in JAFZA and a holding company in DIFC are each measured against the same qualifying-activity list and substance tests. Holding a free zone licence is not, by itself, a 0% rate. The rate follows the activity and the substance, not the address on the trade licence. Where a company is genuinely managed matters too, since Cabinet Decision 85/2022 on tax residency can affect its treaty position abroad.
Velmont’s take on tax depreciation
Tax depreciation under Federal Decree-Law 47/2022 follows the accounting treatment for most assets, with FTA-prescribed limits on specific categories. Buildings, IT hardware, vehicles and leasehold improvements each have their own treatment. Many SMEs default to whatever a generic accounting policy set up at incorporation and never revisit the schedule against the tax position. For asset-heavy businesses, that can leave AED 30,000 to AED 100,000 of additional deduction on the table each year.
The lever we apply most often: review the asset register before year-end, split out components where the FTA allows shorter useful lives, and take fully depreciated items off the register. None of this is aggressive — it just matches the schedule to the rules. Pair it with a review of low-value and fully written-off assets against current FTA depreciation guidance and the tax position improves with no structural change.
The file you’d want during an FTA audit
Every relief above depends on documentation that survives a five-year FTA audit window. The minimum file we build for SME clients includes a signed transfer pricing policy, an inter-company agreement register, depreciation schedules aligned with FTA tables, a deduction memo for any non-obvious expense above AED 50,000, and a year-end substance memo for free zone entities.
For QFZPs, add an annual qualifying-activity classification document mapping every revenue line to the approved list, plus a de minimis tracker updated monthly. For groups with foreign income, retain certified foreign tax receipts and a one-page credit calculation per source country. These files are cheap to maintain in the year. They are expensive to rebuild during an audit.
Where this leaves you
If your revenue is AED 3M or below, the question is whether SBR or carried-forward losses give the better outcome. For most SMEs, SBR wins. Above AED 3M, focus on deduction discipline, loss modelling and whether your free zone substance is genuine. If you are in a free zone, audit substance annually — FTA guidance has tightened, and a substance shortfall discovered during audit removes 0% retroactively.
Groups with international operations should map foreign tax credits, the participation exemption and treaty positions before filing. We prepare elections, deduction reviews, free zone substance assessments and EmaraTax filings as part of our corporate tax advisory services. That is the practical work behind what most owners mean when they go looking for a corporate tax consultant in the UAE: modelling the elections well ahead of the corporate tax filing deadline, rather than explaining them after the return has gone in. For ongoing books that support every relief in this guide, see our accounting and bookkeeping services and our Hisab platform for the day-to-day capture layer.
For UAE accounting, VAT and corporate tax support, see Velmont Crest’s accounting services in Dubai.
Official references: Federal Tax Authority - Corporate Tax | UAE Ministry of Finance - Corporate Tax | FTA - EmaraTax portal
Frequently asked questions
- Can I legally reduce corporate tax in the UAE to zero?
- Yes, and there are two clean routes to it. Elect Small Business Relief if your revenue is AED 3 million or less, and taxable income is treated as zero for the period. Or run as a Qualifying Free Zone Person on qualifying income, where the rate is already 0%. Both are fully legal and FTA-compliant. The catch is in the execution: documentation, substance, and election timing all have to be right on the EmaraTax return, or the zero quietly disappears.
- What is Small Business Relief, and who qualifies?
- It's an election under Ministerial Decision 73/2023 (as amended by Ministerial Decision 131/2026) that lets resident taxable persons with revenue of AED 3M or less treat taxable income as zero. You still register, keep records, and file. The tax payable is just nil. It runs for tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029. Two things people forget: it's claimed on the return rather than granted automatically, and MNE group members can't use it at all.
- What expenses can I deduct to reduce my corporate tax?
- If a cost is incurred wholly and exclusively for the business, it's generally in. Office rent, salaries and end-of-service benefits, professional fees, marketing, business travel, software, insurance, depreciation, qualifying bad debts. What's out: personal costs, administrative fines, and the slice of entertainment above the 50% cap. Interest is its own case, deductible but capped under the Article 30 rule at 30% of EBITDA, which is where leveraged businesses tend to get caught.
- How do UAE corporate tax losses work?
- They carry forward indefinitely, with no expiry date. In any future period, brought-forward losses can wipe out up to 75% of taxable income under Article 37, and there's no cap on how many periods you stretch them across. One trap worth knowing: elect Small Business Relief in a loss-making year and the losses from that year are gone. And because of the 75% ceiling, at least a quarter of your profit stays taxable even when you're sitting on a large loss balance.
- What is the Qualifying Free Zone Person (QFZP) regime?
- A QFZP pays 0% on qualifying income, meaning transactions with other free zone persons or income from approved activities like manufacturing, logistics, fund management, headquarters services, and holding shares. The price of admission is real: genuine substance, non-qualifying income kept under the de minimis ceiling (lower of AED 5M or 5% of total revenue), and audited financial statements. Miss the threshold and you don't just lose the excess. The 0% falls away for the whole period.
- Can I claim a foreign tax credit to reduce my UAE corporate tax?
- Yes. If your UAE business earns foreign-source income and pays tax on it abroad, that foreign tax can be credited against your UAE liability. The credit is capped at the lower of the foreign tax paid or the UAE tax that 9% would produce on the same income. Hold on to certified foreign tax receipts, because that's your evidence. And don't expect to do anything with the overflow: excess foreign tax can't be refunded or carried forward.
- What is the participation exemption under UAE corporate tax?
- It exempts dividends and capital gains where you hold at least 5% of the investee for at least 12 months and that investee faces a minimum 9% headline tax rate or its equivalent. This is what makes UAE holding structures genuinely efficient for groups with subsidiaries, investment portfolios, or an exit on the horizon. The catch is that the shareholding has to be a real investment, held as such, not trading stock you're flipping in the short term.
- What does reducing taxable income mean under UAE corporate tax?
- It means lowering the figure the 9% rate is applied to, not the rate itself. UAE corporate tax starts from accounting profit, adds back non-deductible items, removes exempt income, applies any election such as Small Business Relief or the QFZP rate, then offsets brought-forward losses. Every legitimate lever works on one of those stages. Tidying up deductions and taking the first AED 375,000 at 0% cut the base directly. Losses reduce what is left, capped at 75% under Article 37. An election can take the base to zero outright. The rate never moves. The base does, and that is where all the saving actually sits.
- Which income is exempt from UAE corporate tax?
- The main exemptions are dividends and other profit distributions received from UAE resident juridical persons, plus dividends and capital gains covered by the participation exemption where you hold at least 5% of the investee for at least 12 months and it faces a headline rate of at least 9% or equivalent. Income of a qualifying foreign permanent establishment can be exempted by election. Certain exempt persons sit outside the charge altogether on approval. Worth separating in your head: a tax exemption is not the same thing as the 0% band or Small Business Relief, which reduce the tax on income that is still within the charge.
- Do I still register for corporate tax if the tax comes out at zero?
- Yes. Registration is a separate obligation from liability. A resident juridical person registers with the Federal Tax Authority through EmaraTax whether or not it ends up paying anything, and that includes businesses electing Small Business Relief and free zone companies sitting on the 0% qualifying rate. You also still file a return and keep records for the statutory retention period. Treating a nil outcome as a reason to skip registration is one of the more expensive misreadings of the regime, because the administrative penalty for late registration applies regardless of whether any tax was due.
- When is the corporate tax return deadline in the UAE?
- Nine months after your tax period ends. So a 31 December 2025 year-end means filing and payment by 30 September 2026, and a 30 June 2025 year-end falls due 31 March 2026. Miss it and the meter starts: AED 500 a month in year one, AED 1,000 a month after that, plus 14% annual interest on any unpaid tax running from the due date. The late-filing and late-payment penalties stack, so a missed deadline gets expensive faster than people expect.
- What is the General Interest Deduction Limitation in the UAE?
- Article 30 of Federal Decree-Law 47/2022 caps net interest expense at the higher of 30% of adjusted EBITDA or AED 12 million per tax period. Anything disallowed carries forward up to 10 years, so it isn't lost outright. Most SMEs never feel this rule because they sit well under the AED 12M de minimis. It bites at the leveraged end of the market, and if you're a real estate developer or an acquisition-financed entity carrying heavy debt, this is the one to model before you file, not after.
- Do I need transfer pricing documentation as a UAE SME?
- Every related-party transaction has to be priced at arm's length. The formal Master File and Local File only become mandatory once group revenue crosses AED 200M, so most SMEs are off that hook. Don't read that as nothing required, though. Keep a basic benchmarking file, signed inter-company agreements, and a one-page transfer pricing policy. In an FTA audit, having no documentation at all is what routinely drags upward profit adjustments at 9% onto your assessment.
- Does Pillar Two affect UAE SMEs?
- No, and it's not close. The OECD Pillar Two 15% global minimum tax only reaches Multinational Enterprise groups with consolidated revenue above EUR 750M. Domestic UAE SMEs and free zone entities below that line are simply outside it. The UAE's Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (DMTT), which mirrors Pillar Two, already applies to in-scope MNEs for financial years starting on or after 1 January 2025, but if you're a stand-alone UAE business, you stay on the ordinary 9% or QFZP framework.
- Should I restructure into a free zone to reduce tax?
- Not before you've costed it out fully. A QFZP setup demands real substance, audited statements, and constant watch on the de minimis threshold. The move itself isn't free either, asset transfers, customer contracts to novate, bank accounts to change. And here's the part owners miss: if your revenue is under AED 3M, Small Business Relief usually lands you at the same zero tax with a fraction of the friction. We model both routes before recommending any restructure.
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