Free zone company that historically billed only foreign clients and kept QFZP status cleanly. This year we took on three UAE mainland clients, revenue from them is around 15 percent of our total. Mainland revenue is not qualifying income, and if we handle it wrong we risk losing QFZP across the whole entity rather than just paying 9 percent on the mainland portion.
The de minimis and carve-out rules are specific enough that I do not want to interpret them myself. Need a specialist who has handled mixed-revenue QFZP cases recently, can compute where we sit against the carve-out thresholds for this financial year, and file so that QFZP is preserved on the qualifying portion and 9 percent applies cleanly on the mainland portion.
Secondary need: a written memo on where the edge cases are in our revenue mix, so we can decide next year whether to keep taking mainland clients or shape the business differently.