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A UAE fund, pension vehicle or holding company does not become exempt by qualifying. FTA Decision 15 of 2026 made the exemption a timed filing, with two catch-up deadlines in late 2026 and a rule that the parent must be approved before any subsidiary beneath it. The order of filing now decides who is exempt, and when.
From 6 April 2027 UK rental profit is taxed at new property rates of 22%, 42% and 47%, and a calculation change makes allowances shelter it last. For a landlord in Dubai, Ireland or Spain the UK still taxes the rent, and the rise sharpens an old question: hold the property in your own name, or through a company.
Read the analysisA UAE entrepreneur wanting to live between Ireland and Spain arrives with a careful day count: Ireland's 183-day and 280-day rules, Spain's 183 days. The real exposure is not where the person is resident but where the Dubai company is managed from, because running it from Dublin or Madrid can make it resident too.
Read the analysisA founder in the UAE setting up a UK company to lend to businesses usually braces for an FCA licence. For loans to companies it is rarely needed: lending to a body corporate sits outside the consumer-credit perimeter. What it does need is quieter and now heavily policed, registration with the FCA as an Annex 1 firm.
Read the analysisA UK founder who moves to Dubai and goes out on their own usually assumes self-employment there is tax-free. For corporate tax it is, until business turnover crosses one million dirhams in a calendar year. Above that line the individual must register, file and pay 9% on profit over 375,000 dirhams.
Read the analysisBy the time a nudge letter reaches a family, HMRC has usually already seen the UAE account behind it. From 1 January 2026 CRS 2.0 and the new crypto framework widen what the banks report. The family that answers calmly reconciled its structure to the data long before HMRC asked.
Read the analysisYou have incorporated a UK company as the UK arm of a UAE business, the owner is not UK resident, and you have not started trading yet. The question is who registers it for Corporation Tax, PAYE and VAT. The answer is sooner than most owners expect, because a UK subsidiary is a UK taxpayer from the day it exists.
Read the analysisFamilies arrive in the UAE believing the structure they chose is tax-free. The law reads the other way. The 9% corporate tax is the default, and exemption is a status a vehicle must qualify for, claim and keep. Cabinet Decision 55 of 2025 widened who can be exempt, but it did not make exemption automatic for anyone.
Read the analysisFor eight years a valid tax invoice was enough to recover UAE input VAT. From 1 October 2026 it is only the start. Three instruments make the business prove the supplier is real, the payment clean and the cost its own, and they fall hardest on the family holding that already recovers only part of its VAT.
Read the analysisA business that forms a company on one side of the corridor and hires its first person on the other has not added a line to the payroll. It has opened a second employment system, with its own gratuity, insurance and wage rules, and it can create a permanent establishment that taxes the company where it is not resident.
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