Open Requests from Businesses Across the UAE

Consultant running at AED 320k trailing twelve-month revenue, mostly UAE-based clients. Projections put us past AED 375k in roughly four to six months, so the mandatory window is coming. The…

Founder of a UAE mainland company, draw a monthly salary from the company. The question I keep getting different answers on: is my salary deductible at the company level for…

Solo UX designer, international client base, UK and US mostly. Want UAE residency and torn between the freelancer permit route and the Green Visa route. Income profile would probably meet…

Mainland LLC owner, active for four years, interested in the Golden Visa route via AED 2 million public investment rather than the company-capital route. Have the capital ready, want to…

Dubai mainland professional license holder, currently running a consulting firm with no product revenue. Launching a complementary product line (branded physical kits shipped direct to clients) and the activity on…

Corporate account opened six weeks ago, operating cleanly. The first meaningful inbound wire (European corporate client, full contract on file, invoice matches) has been held for compliance review for nine…

SaaS business, all revenue comes via Stripe and Paddle as USD payouts. Need a UAE corporate account where those payouts arrive without repeat compliance queries, where the intermediate Wise Business…

Free zone company, second year of operation, just got the letter that we need to file an audit for the first time this cycle. Books are roughly clean (Xero, reconciled…

Corporate account has been frozen under AML review for the last eleven days. Bank compliance has asked for documentation which we have provided, and the response we keep getting is…

Missed two VAT returns in a row due to a mix of internal chaos and a change of accountant. Penalties are stacking, and each day we do not file them…

SaaS business registered in a UAE free zone, customers are businesses outside UAE. I know exported services can be zero-rated when the conditions are met, and I know zero-rated revenue…

Mainland consulting company, first full financial year under corporate tax. Revenue comfortably above the small business relief threshold, so 9 percent applies. Have clean accounting in Xero but I have…

Corporate account frozen three weeks ago for AML review. We cannot pay staff, cannot settle two supplier invoices that are already overdue, and our main client is asking why the…

Set up a free zone company three months ago through a package that included the free zone's own corporate-services arm handling bank account opening. On paper it looked clean: one…

License expires tomorrow. We discovered this today because the PRO notification went to an employee who has left the company and the forwarding was not set up correctly. Renewal paperwork…

Indian-listed parent company, mid-cap, expanding into UAE via a Dubai branch to serve GCC clients directly. The Indian side is regulated (SEBI disclosures on overseas expansion, FEMA compliance on capital…

Solo ecommerce founder, Shopify store running about 18 months, mixed dropship and stocked inventory. Revenue split is roughly 60 percent US, 30 percent GCC, rest small EU markets. Ready to…

Eighteen months ago I set up a UAE free zone company with the intention of relocating my business here. The business did not work out (market access assumptions were wrong,…

Emirates ID stuck six weeks after visa stamping. Medical was done correctly, stamping went through cleanly, and the EID card should have been issued within the usual window. It has…

Dubai mainland license expired 45 days ago. We are outside the 30-day grace, fines are stacking, and the situation has started to spill into visa status for our three employees.…