Terms of use

Who publishes this site

This site is published by TaxAdvisors. The owner is Omer Muneer, and editorial review is by Asad Shaheen, whose name and the date of review appear at the foot of every page.

TaxAdvisors is at Aspin Commercial Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. No trade licence number is published here and none should be inferred from the name. There is no track record, client list, headcount or founding date behind the content, and none is asserted. The about page says the same thing in more detail.

This is information, not advice

Everything on this site is general information about published UAE tax, audit and accounting law. It is written against the law as published by the authority that made it, and it is written without any knowledge of your circumstances.

Reading it does not create an adviser–client relationship, and nothing here is a legal, tax, audit or accounting opinion on your facts. Tax outcomes turn on details a web page cannot see: how an entity is structured, what its contracts actually say, which free zone it sits in, what it has already filed, and what it has already been told by the Federal Tax Authority. Where your question turns on any of those, that is the point at which to take advice rather than rely on a page.

If you act on something here and it turns out not to apply to you, that is the risk this section exists to describe. The obligation to file correctly stays with the taxable person.

Who reviewed this

Every content page carries the name of the person who reviewed it and the date they did, at the foot of the page. Review is by Asad Shaheen.

A review means a person read the page against the instruments it cites. It does not make the page advice, and it does not transfer responsibility for a filing position. The mechanism is described on the editorial standards page.

Regulatory status

Several activities in the UAE may only be performed by someone on a public register. Licence and registration papers are available to view at our office — visit us at Aspin Commercial Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, or call +971 58 541 4616, WhatsApp +971 58 541 4616 or email info@taxadvisors.ae.

• Tax agents. Only a person listed on the Federal Tax Authority's Tax Agent register may act before the FTA on a taxable person's behalf. Nothing on this site is itself an offer to act for you before the FTA. What the register is and how it works is explained on tax agents.
• Statutory audit. Statutory audit in the UAE is a licensed activity, regulated under Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2023 on the organisation of the auditing profession. This site explains audit requirements.
• Not approved, endorsed or accredited by any authority. This site links to the Federal Tax Authority, the Ministry of Finance and other bodies because they publish the law it describes. Linking to a regulator is not a relationship with it, and no page claims one.
• No professional body membership is claimed. No designation, qualification, chartered status or institute membership is asserted anywhere on this site for anyone.

If any page appears to say otherwise, that page is wrong and the statement here governs. Report it on the contact page.

Accuracy, currency, and what wins

UAE tax law moves — decree-laws are amended, cabinet decisions are issued, and the FTA publishes guides and public clarifications that change how a rule is applied in practice. A page here reflects what was published when it was written.

Where this site and the source disagree, the source is right. Every rate, threshold, deadline and penalty on this site names the instrument or authority it comes from precisely so you can check it, and you should check it before you act. The legislation as published by the UAE government, and the FTA's own guidance, prevail over anything written here.

The calculators

The calculators on this site are illustrations of how a published rule arithmetically works. They take the few inputs the rule turns on, and they ignore everything else — because they cannot see it.

A figure produced by one is not a computation of your tax liability, not a return, and not a substitute for one. It does not account for reliefs you may or may not qualify for, adjustments, group positions, prior-year losses, transfer pricing, or anything already filed. Do not file on the strength of a number a web page gave you.

Acceptable use

Read and use the site as a reference: that is what it is for. What is not permitted is using it to harm the service or other people — sending spam or abuse through the published contact channels, attempting to interfere with the site's operation or security, scraping or copying it in ways that ignore robots.txt, or relying on the calculators to file a position the calculator cannot see.

Automated access for indexing and answering — ordinary search crawlers, research tools and AI answer engines — is welcome within the limits robots.txt sets. Mass copying to resell the corpus is not; the writing, tables and worked examples are this site's own work, and the rules for quoting them are in "Using the content" above.

Severability and these terms as a whole

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stands — one bad clause does not sink the page. These terms, together with the privacy notice where it applies, are the entire basis on which the site is offered. They are written in plain language and have not been drafted by a lawyer; they should be read by a UAE-qualified lawyer before this site trades on them, and they do not override the reader's statutory rights where those cannot be waived.

Getting in touch

Telephone, WhatsApp and email are published on the contact page. Using them, and receiving an answer, is still general information: it does not engage anyone to act for you, does not create an adviser–client relationship, and creates no duty to you beyond answering the question that was asked.

There is no enquiry form on this site. An earlier one collected questions and discarded them; it stays down until a handler exists. Do not send Emirates ID, passport, bank details or a copy of a return unless we have asked for that specific document. Nothing sent through WhatsApp or email should be treated as privileged or confidential. What those channels do with what you send is in the privacy notice.

Links to other sites

This site links out to primary sources — tax.gov.ae, mof.gov.ae, u.ae and the like — because a tax statement without its source is worth very little. Those sites are not under this site's control, and their content, availability and privacy practices are their own. A link is a citation, not an endorsement.

Using the content

The writing, tables, diagrams and calculators on this site are its own work. You are welcome to read them, print them, and quote a passage with a link back. Republishing pages wholesale, or feeding the corpus into a product that resells it, is not permitted.

The underlying legal texts are not this site's property — decree-laws, cabinet decisions, ministerial decisions and FTA guides belong to the bodies that publish them, and the official version is always the one on their site.

Automated crawlers, including AI answer engines, are welcome within robots.txt. That file is the authoritative statement of what may be crawled.

Liability

This site is provided as general information, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, as to accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the publisher accepts no liability for any loss, penalty, interest, cost or damage arising from reliance on anything published here, including any calculator output. Nothing in these terms excludes a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

What can be said plainly in the meantime is the position this site already takes everywhere else: the content is general information, it is published without any knowledge of your circumstances, it has been read by a named person, and the responsibility for a filing position stays with the person filing.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the federal law of the United Arab Emirates, and any dispute arising from them is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Dubai. This site is not established in the DIFC or in ADGM, and neither of those jurisdictions' regimes applies to it.

Changes to these terms

These terms are the ones in force when you read them. Material changes are made in the text rather than announced by a date stamp; this site does not display an auto-generated "last updated" date anywhere, because a build date is not a review date. The reasoning is on the editorial standards page.