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Easy to Start, Hard to Keep Clean: The UAE SME Formation and Compliance Market

Formation venues compete on price and speed; the durable cost of owning a UAE company now sits in the tax-and-filing stack that follows

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15 JUL 202612 MINCLOSED

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The Formation Boom and Its Paperwork

By the measures that formation marketing celebrates, the UAE has never been easier to enter. More than forty free zones compete for registrations, entry-tier licenses start near AED 6,000, and several venues approve a company in under a week. The Ministry of Economy counted roughly 557,000 small and medium enterprises at the end of 2022 — over 94% of all companies operating in the country — and has set a public target of one million SMEs by 2030 (source: Ministry of Economy, via WAM). What the headline price omits is everything that follows the license. Since June 2023, federal corporate tax…

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