Open Requests from Businesses Across the UAE

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.…

Free zone consultancy, no relevant activity under ESR. Annual notification is due in the coming weeks and we just need to file a clean nil return on the portal before…

Full-time content creator, crossed AED 375k trailing twelve-month largely from foreign-sourced Patreon and YouTube payouts. The rest is one-off brand deals with UAE and non-UAE brands. The mandatory registration window…

Free zone company, operating three years, almost entirely foreign B2B revenue. Want to confirm whether we meet Qualifying Free Zone Person status and therefore retain the 0 percent rate on…

Free zone company, two UAE banks rejected our corporate account application in sequence. The first rejection was a letter with no reason. The second was a phone call where the…

Solo founder, Meydan free zone license, clean KYC file, UAE resident with a valid visa. Two banks have already said no without a clear reason. The second one felt like…

Two-person media agency, clients mostly EU, team fully remote. We need a UAE free zone license for the legal structure and three founder and employee visas. Budget is tight, setup…

Incorporated with IFZA last month. License in hand and that is where the formation agent's involvement effectively ended. Since then we have been trying to close the rest of the…

Relocating from London with my wife and two children (ages 9 and 12) in September. Target landing date is the last week of August because the kids' school term starts…

My wife and two kids arrive in Dubai on entry permits in four weeks. Kids are 7 and 10, school place already confirmed contingent on residency being in hand by…

Newly incorporated in IFZA last week. License in hand, establishment card not yet applied for, MOHRE enrolment not done, no employee visa quota active. Have two hires already on offer…