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Monitoring of Pillar Two, DAC6/7/8, HMRC Spotlights, FTA Public Clarifications, FATF movements, and other shifts in the regulatory floor.
The Federal Tax Authority can demand your transfer-pricing file within 30 days, and a file that does not already exist cannot be built in time. A failed audit is taxed at 9% with a 15% penalty on top. The Advance Pricing Agreement programme opened at the end of 2025 lets larger groups fix the methodology in advance.
Read Full AnalysisThe first UAE Corporate Tax return for a 31 December 2025 year end is due by 30 September 2026, but the businesses that treat September as the start date fail. The accounts must close around June to reconcile VAT, document intercompany positions, and make the elections before the penalties bite.
Read Full AnalysisThe first UAE Corporate Tax return for a calendar-year entity is due by 30 September 2026, and the transfer-pricing disclosure sits inside it. A management fee or intercompany loan to a UK holding company that lacks contemporaneous benchmarking is exposed the moment the return is filed.
Read Full AnalysisWholesale CBDC is not a new asset class. It is tokenised central bank reserves, accessible only to banks and eligible institutions, as reserves have been for decades. For a family office across the UK-UAE corridor, access to tokenised markets runs through the custodian and the wrapper, not a central bank account.
Read Full AnalysisUAE Cabinet Decision No. 209 of 2025 took effect on 30 January 2026, replacing the 2012 exchange-of-information framework. It imposes record-keeping and disclosure duties on UAE persons, including free zone entities, that apply whether or not the entity pays corporate tax, backed by fines up to AED 100,000.
Read Full AnalysisThe UAE Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax under Cabinet Decision No. 142 of 2024 applies to financial years starting on or after 1 January 2025. First filings are due within 15 months of fiscal year-end, extended to 18 months for the transitional year. For a calendar-year MNE group, the first return is due 30 June 2027.
Read Full AnalysisOn 10 May 2026 the UAE Ministry of Finance moved the Phase 1 ASP appointment deadline from 31 July 2026 to 30 October 2026 by amending Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025. The 1 January 2027 go-live did not move. For AED 50 million+ entities the runway between ASP appointment and live filing is now nine weeks.
Read Full AnalysisThe UAE Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax under Cabinet Decision No. 142 of 2024 is not a separate tax. It is a recomputation of every other UAE tax outcome against a 15% floor for in-scope MNE groups (consolidated revenue EUR 750m or more in two of the preceding four fiscal years), effective 1 January 2025.
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