Guides
What we wish someone had told us before starting. Including the parts that cost us sales.
Tax
- Why a Dubai company does not make you tax-freeThe single most expensive misunderstanding in this industry, explained properly: place of effective management, CFC rules, and what actually has to change.
- UAE corporate tax and free zones: who actually pays 0%Qualifying income, substance requirements and the registration obligation that applies even at a zero rate.
Setting up
- How to choose a free zone without overpayingThe four questions that decide it, and why the answer for most solo founders is cheaper than they are told.
- Free zone or mainland: the decision in plain termsWhere each one wins, and the local-market restriction that catches people out.
- Seven mistakes that cost UAE company owners real moneyDrawn from files that went wrong: wrong zone, wrong vehicle, missed deadlines, and the renewal surprise.
Compliance
- Economic substance: the obligation most owners discover too lateWhat substance actually means in practice, which activities it bites on, and the penalties for ignoring it.
- Exchange control: the real obstacle for African and Maghreb foundersTax is rarely the binding constraint. Moving the money legally is. A country-by-country reality check.
Let's talk about your actual case
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