Corporate Tax Health Check
Our review can identify registration gaps, missing accounting records, unsupported expenses, related-party issues and filing risks before they become urgent problems.
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Corporate Tax Compliance with Clear Financial Support
UAE Corporate Tax requires businesses to understand their registration, accounting, taxable-income and filing obligations.
Krest Business combines tax-compliance support with reliable accounting records so that calculations and returns are based on organised financial information.
Does my UAE company need to register for Corporate Tax?
UAE Corporate Tax requires a business to determine its registration obligation, maintain accounting records capable of supporting a taxable-income computation, assess its free-zone or relief position where relevant, and file within the deadline applicable to its financial year. Krest Business supports registration, readiness assessment, tax-accounting alignment, computation and return preparation, working from the same accounting records it maintains or reviews.
Last reviewed: September 2026
Our Corporate Tax Services
- Corporate Tax registration support
- Corporate Tax impact and readiness assessment
- Tax-accounting alignment and opening-balance review
- Taxable-income computation support
- Corporate Tax return preparation and filing support
- Deductibility and expense-category review
- Related-party and connected-person transaction support
- Free-zone tax-position assessment support
- Small Business Relief eligibility review, where applicable
- Tax-loss and relief consideration support
- Effective tax-rate review and tax planning within the law
- Multi-country and cross-border coordination with specialist advisers
- FTA enquiry, reconsideration and dispute-document support through appropriately qualified advisers
- Family business, holding-company and investment-structure coordination
What is the difference between VAT and Corporate Tax in the UAE?
The two regimes ask different questions of a business, and a company may be within one, both or neither.
| Dimension | VAT | Corporate Tax |
|---|---|---|
| Applies to | Taxable supplies of goods and services | Taxable income of the business |
| Driven by | Turnover and the nature of supplies | Accounting profit, adjusted for tax rules and reliefs |
| Reporting cycle | Periodic returns for each tax period | Annual return based on the financial year |
| Records required | Invoices, transaction classification, VAT ledgers | Financial statements and supporting computation schedules |
| Krest role | Registration, ledger reconciliation, return preparation | Registration, readiness, computation and return preparation |
General UAE rate framework
Corporate Tax treatment depends on the taxpayer, taxable income and available reliefs. The commonly cited 9% rate applies to taxable income above the applicable threshold for standard taxable persons; individual circumstances must be assessed separately. Positions should be confirmed against current Federal Tax Authority and Ministry of Finance guidance.
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Records First
A Corporate Tax computation is only as reliable as the accounts behind it. Where records are incomplete, we agree a clean-up scope before filing work begins.
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