UAE businesses often assume VAT and Corporate Tax cover their full compliance picture, but a number of other obligations apply depending on your activity, structure and industry — from Excise Tax on specific goods, to Economic Substance Regulations for relevant activities, to anti-money-laundering registration for designated non-financial businesses. VAT Accounting UAE brings all of these together under one roof: Excise Tax Registration and Return Compliance, Tax Residency Certificate applications, goAML Registration and Compliance, ESR Advisory, IFRS Advisory, Fixed Assets Services and CFO / Financial Advisory, so nothing falls through the cracks simply because it sits outside VAT and Corporate Tax.
Our Range of Other Tax & Compliance Services
This page is the starting point for every compliance service we offer outside VAT and Corporate Tax. Excise Tax Registration and Excise Tax Return / Compliance cover businesses dealing in tobacco, energy drinks, carbonated drinks and other excisable goods. Tax Residency Certificate (TRC) applications support businesses and individuals claiming treaty benefits or proving UAE tax residency. goAML Registration / Compliance covers the mandatory anti-money-laundering reporting obligation for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs).
ESR Advisory / Compliance addresses Economic Substance Regulations reporting for businesses carrying out relevant activities. IFRS Advisory supports businesses needing to prepare or review financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards. Fixed Assets Services covers asset registers, depreciation schedules and physical verification. CFO / Financial Advisory provides senior financial oversight for businesses that need it without the cost of a full-time hire.
Why These Obligations Are Easy to Miss
Unlike VAT and Corporate Tax, which apply broadly across the UAE economy, several of these obligations only apply to specific activities or business types — a business only registers for Excise Tax if it imports, produces or stockpiles excisable goods, and only certain DNFBP categories need goAML registration. Because they are narrower in scope, they are also easier for a business to overlook entirely, sometimes until a bank, regulator or free zone authority specifically asks for evidence of compliance.
Missing one of these obligations rarely announces itself immediately, but it tends to surface at an inconvenient moment — a licence renewal, a bank account opening, a due diligence request from an investor — by which point resolving it under time pressure is considerably more stressful than addressing it proactively.
We proactively flag, as part of any engagement, whether we spot signs your business may have an obligation you haven’t yet addressed, rather than waiting for you to ask about each one by name.
Who We Work With
We work with UAE businesses across sectors that touch one or more of these specific obligations — importers and distributors of excisable goods, real estate brokers and other DNFBPs needing goAML registration, holding companies and free zone entities carrying out ESR-relevant activities, and growing businesses that need IFRS-compliant reporting or senior financial oversight without a full in-house finance team.
How We Work
We start by understanding your specific business activity to identify which of these obligations actually apply to you, since very few businesses need all of them. From there we scope the relevant service or combination of services, agree a transparent fee, and manage the process end-to-end.
What Makes Our Approach Different
Rather than treating each of these obligations as a separate transaction, we look at your business as a whole and flag where one compliance area touches another — an ESR-relevant holding structure that also needs a TRC to claim treaty benefits, or a DNFBP needing goAML registration alongside its standard VAT compliance. Seeing the full picture avoids the gaps that come from each requirement being handled by a different, disconnected provider.
One Team Across Every Compliance Area
Because the same team that handles your VAT, Corporate Tax and accounting can also take on these other obligations, there’s no handoff of your financial information between providers, and no risk of one party’s work being built on outdated data from another.
Transparent, Fixed-Fee Pricing
Every engagement is quoted as a fixed fee agreed before work begins, based on which service or combination of services you need and your business complexity. There are no hourly surprises partway through, and where the scope needs to expand once we begin, we agree any adjustment with you first.
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Getting Started
A short consultation is enough for us to identify which of these obligations apply to your business and recommend the right service. Explore the specific service pages below for full detail on each, or book a free consultation and we will point you in the right direction.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on your specific activity — a short scoping call is usually enough for us to confirm exactly which obligations apply to your business and which don’t.
Yes — many businesses need a combination, such as ESR Advisory alongside goAML Registration, and we manage them together as one coordinated engagement.
No — only businesses that import, produce, release from a designated zone, or stockpile excisable goods need to register.
Specific business categories named under UAE AML law — including real estate brokers, dealers in precious metals and stones, and certain corporate service providers — that carry mandatory AML compliance obligations, including goAML registration.
Pricing depends on the specific service and your business complexity. We provide a transparent quote after a short scoping call.