Advisory · Standing tax counsel
Tax advisory.
Positions you can defend.
Standing tax counsel across every UAE tax — Corporate Tax and VAT interplay, free-zone (QFZP) structuring, transfer pricing, e-invoicing readiness and FTA clarifications — with a partner-reviewed position memo behind every judgement call.
What does tax advisory cover in the UAE?
UAE tax advisory is standing counsel across Corporate Tax (9% above AED 375,000 of taxable income, 0% below), VAT at 5%, transfer pricing and e-invoicing — phased go-lives from 1 January 2027, with the first ASP appointment due 30 October 2026. A good advisor turns each judgement call — QFZP status, CT–VAT interplay, related-party pricing — into a documented position your Board and the FTA can review.
What the engagement covers
Tax Advisory, end to end.
CT & VAT interplay
One fact pattern, two taxes. We resolve how Corporate Tax and VAT read the same transaction — in writing.
Free-zone & TP structuring
QFZP status, substance and arm’s-length pricing tested against the conditions — and documented.
FTA clarifications
Where the law is genuinely unclear, a private clarification request drafted and managed to an answer.
Tax due diligence
Registrations, filings, TP and e-invoicing readiness quantified in deals — before you sign, not after.
The engagement, end to end
How we run it.
01
Frame
Define the question, the taxes it touches and what the Board needs to decide.
02
Analyse
Work the facts against FDL 47/2022, the VAT law and the Cabinet and Ministerial Decisions.
03
Position
Set out the options, the risk on each and the position we recommend.
04
Partner review
A partner tests the reasoning, the legal basis and the residual risk.
05
Document
Deliver a position memo the Board — and an FTA reviewer — can follow.
FAQ
Tax Advisory, answered.
Everything with a tax consequence: Corporate Tax at 9% above AED 375,000 of taxable income, VAT at 5%, free-zone (QFZP) status, transfer pricing, e-invoicing readiness and the FTA processes around them. The value is in the interplay — one supply-chain decision can move your VAT recovery, your qualifying income and your related-party pricing at once, so the advice has to read every tax together.
Planning is episodic — structuring a group, an election or a transaction before it happens. Advisory is standing counsel: the questions that arrive all year, across every UAE tax, answered with the same discipline and documented the same way. Most clients retain us for advisory and commission planning work as specific structuring needs surface.
Yes. The FTA accepts private clarification requests where the tax treatment of your specific facts is genuinely uncertain. We draft the technical analysis and the request, support the submission on EmaraTax and manage the follow-up until the FTA responds. Where a clarification is not the right route, we document the position in a memo with its legal basis instead.
Whether the target’s tax affairs are what the seller says they are: Corporate Tax and VAT registrations and filings, open FTA matters, transfer pricing exposure on related-party dealings, and e-invoicing readiness against the phased 2027 go-lives. We quantify the exposures so they can be priced, warranted or fixed before completion — not discovered after it.