Every business is different. Some are differently difficult.
The rules are the same for everyone. Where the difficulty sits is not. Here is what we see in each sector and how the work is structured.
Hotels & Serviced Apartments
Common tax challengesHotels collect substantial amounts that are never their revenue, and pay substantial amounts to overseas platforms. Both need…
View sector ↗Marketing Agencies
Common tax challengesAgencies have one issue that dominates everything else, and getting it wrong distorts revenue, VAT and Corporate Tax…
View sector ↗Restaurants & Hospitality
Common tax challengesHospitality combines very high transaction counts with very thin margins, which means small recording errors compound quickly and…
View sector ↗Retail Businesses
Common tax challengesRetail combines very high transaction counts with physical stock, so the controls that matter are daily rather than…
View sector ↗Trading Companies
Common tax challengesTrading businesses run on volume and margin, and both are distorted by how imports and inventory are recorded.…
View sector ↗Amazon Sellers
Common tax challengesAmazon sellers face the hardest reconciliation problem in e-commerce, because the money that arrives in your bank bears…
View sector ↗Construction & Contracting
Common tax challengesConstruction is the sector where revenue recognition and cash position diverge most sharply, and where the tax treatment…
View sector ↗Consultants & Professional Services
Common tax challengesProfessional services firms carry little inventory and few fixed assets, so the tax questions concentrate almost entirely on…
View sector ↗E-commerce Businesses
Common tax challengesE-commerce generates more tax questions per dirham of revenue than almost any other sector, because the transactions cross…
View sector ↗Freelancers & Sole Professionals
Common tax challengesFreelancers and sole professionals are treated differently from companies, and most of the confusion comes from applying company…
View sector ↗Healthcare & Medical Practices
Common tax challengesHealthcare is one of the few UAE sectors where a single business routinely makes supplies with different VAT…
View sector ↗Logistics & Freight Companies
Common tax challengesFreight and logistics businesses handle large sums that are not their revenue, and the distinction between what passes…
View sector ↗Real Estate & Property Businesses
Common tax challengesProperty is the sector where VAT classification does the most damage when it is wrong, because the categories…
View sector ↗Shopify Businesses
Common tax challengesRunning your own store removes the marketplace, but it hands you the payment stack, the app subscriptions and…
View sector ↗Technology Companies & Startups
Common tax challengesSoftware businesses invert the usual pattern: cash arrives before the service is delivered, and most of the cost…
View sector ↗Why sector matters in UAE tax
The Corporate Tax and VAT rules are the same for everyone. What differs by sector is where the difficulty sits. A trading company struggles with customs and reverse charge. A restaurant struggles with transaction volume and staff costs. A property business struggles with the line between exempt and zero-rated. Generic bookkeeping misses all three.
The pages below set out the specific problems we see in each sector, the records that matter, and how the work is structured.
Other sectors we work with
Beyond the sectors detailed here, we file for consultants and professional services firms, marketing agencies, technology companies, construction contractors, healthcare providers, logistics operators, and Amazon and Shopify sellers specifically. The approach is the same: understand how the business actually earns before touching the books.
Getting started
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