Business setup in Dubai, advised end to end.
Company formation in mainland, free zone or offshore. Bank account opening. Residence and Golden Visas. Corporate tax, VAT and bookkeeping. Structured first, executed after — and kept compliant for years by the same named advisor.
Advisory first. The paperwork follows.
Two practices, one group. Most clients arrive for the first and stay for the second — the structure we recommend is the structure we then keep compliant.
Corporate advisory & formation
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Structure & jurisdiction advisory
Which entity, which jurisdiction, which ownership — decided against your actual commercial plan rather than a licence catalogue.
- Mainland, free zone and offshore comparison
- Ownership and shareholding design
- Substance and tax position review
Company formation
The registration itself, executed once the structural decision is made and documented.
- Licence application and issuance
- Establishment card and visa quota
- Lease, address and premises requirements
Banking introduction
Positioning the entity so a bank will onboard it — decided before the licence, not after it is issued.
- Bank suitability against your structure
- Source-of-funds file preparation
- Application support to account opening
Residency & Golden Visa
Residence routes assessed against the structure, not sold as a separate product.
- Investor and employment routes
- Golden Visa eligibility assessment
- Dependant and family sponsorship
Corporate governance
Keeping the entity defensible when an investor, a bank or a regulator eventually looks at it.
- Shareholder and constitutional documents
- Board, register and record maintenance
- Restructuring and share transfers
Lusophone & LatAm desk
Advisory delivered in Portuguese for clients from Portugal, Brazil and Angola entering the UAE.
- Portuguese-language advisory
- Cross-border structuring considerations
- Home-jurisdiction coordination
Accounting & taxation
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Bookkeeping & management accounts
The record that every other obligation depends on — maintained to a standard that survives an audit.
- Monthly and quarterly bookkeeping
- Management reporting
- Accounting system setup
Corporate tax
Registration, returns and the ongoing work of holding a qualifying position rather than assuming one.
- Registration and return filing
- QFZP status assessment and maintenance
- Transfer pricing documentation
VAT & e-invoicing
Registration, filing, and readiness for the phased e-invoicing mandate now approaching.
- VAT registration and returns
- E-invoicing readiness assessment
- Input recovery and error correction
Audit support
Preparing the file so the audit is a review rather than a reconstruction.
- Audit file preparation
- Auditor liaison
- Prior-year clean-up
Payroll & WPS
Salary processing that satisfies the Wage Protection System and the end-of-service position.
- Monthly payroll processing
- WPS compliance
- Gratuity and end-of-service accrual
Compliance calendar management
Someone whose job it is to know your deadlines before you do.
- Deadline tracking per entity
- Filing and renewal management
- Penalty exposure review
A few questions. A reasoned recommendation — not a price.
Cost calculators tell you what a licence costs, not whether it is the right licence. This gives you the reasoning we would apply in a first meeting — mainland, free zone or offshore — including the trade-offs against the option we recommend.
Let’s start with what you’ll actually do
Step 1 of 4
Where will your customers be?
This single answer eliminates one of the three jurisdictions immediately.
What kind of activity?
Activity determines licence type, approvals and, for free zones, which zones can even host you.
How many residence visas do you need?
Including yourself. Visa quota drives both cost and zone choice.
What do you need beyond the licence?
Select any that apply. These are the items most often left out of an opening quote.
Your indicated structure
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Based on where your customers are, who owns the entity, and what you’ll actually do.
Why this route:
Want this written up properly?
Indicative only. Activity approvals, ownership and substance requirements vary case by case, and the right answer sometimes changes once we see the detail. A written assessment follows a short conversation.
A short, deliberate process — and a named advisor throughout.
You will not be passed between a sales team, an onboarding team and a processing team. One advisor holds the file from the first conversation to the final licence, and stays with it afterwards.
Understand the business
What you sell, to whom, from where, and who will own it. Forty minutes, no cost, and no licence quoted.
Model the structure
We set out the realistic options with the trade-offs written down — including the ones that argue against our recommendation.
Form and bank
Registration executed against the agreed structure, with banking positioned in parallel rather than as an afterthought.
Keep it compliant
Accounts, corporate tax, VAT and renewals handled continuously, so the position you were advised into is the position you keep.
Named advisors, real photographs.
The person you meet first is the person who holds the file afterwards. These are three of the six people who do the work; the rest are on the About page, with their actual titles.
Not sure where to start? Forty minutes, no cost, no licence quoted.
Your activity, your customers, your visas — and a written view of the structure that fits, with the case against it. The person you speak to is the person who keeps your file.
What is coming, and who it applies to.
The UAE compliance environment has changed faster in three years than in the previous twenty. These are the dates that currently matter — maintained here rather than buried in a newsletter.
E-invoicing — Phase 1 service provider appointed
Businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more must have appointed an accredited service provider by this date, ahead of the January 2027 mandate.
E-invoicing — Phase 1 becomes mandatory
Businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more must issue and receive electronic invoices through the accredited network.
E-invoicing — Phase 2 becomes mandatory
All remaining businesses below the AED 50 million threshold are brought into scope.
E-invoicing — Phase 3, government entities
Government entities come into scope. A fourth phase covering everyone else in scope follows, on dates to be set.
Corporate tax return and payment
The return is due within nine months of the end of the relevant tax period, with payment due on the same date.
What clients say once the company is running.
Live from our Google Business Profile — unedited, and updated as new reviews arrive.
Three areas where the right structure pays for itself.
Most engagements begin with a structure set up elsewhere that now needs to work harder. These are the three we are asked for most. Named outcomes are added here as clients approve them, not before.
A free zone chosen with the bank already in mind
The zone is selected against the onboarding appetite of the bank you actually want, and the source-of-funds file is written for the compliance officer who will read it — so the licence and the account arrive together.
A 0% position that holds up year after year
Qualifying Free Zone Person status follows from substance, qualifying income and audited accounts, tested every year. We assess the tests, put the documentation in order and place the maintenance obligations on a calendar you can work to.
A structure that can invoice the market you have won
When the first mainland contract is signed, the entity needs to be able to bill against it. We put the mainland entity or branch in place and migrate the contracts without pausing trading.
We are probably not the right firm for you if…
We have served more than 1,500 companies since 2018, and the engagements that go badly are almost always the ones that should not have started. It is cheaper for both of us to say so at the beginning.
- You want the lowest possible licence fee and nothing else — several firms will beat us on that number, and should.
- You need the company registered this week and would rather not discuss why it is being registered at all.
- You have already decided the jurisdiction and want execution only, with no review of whether it holds.
- You are looking for a structure whose purpose is to obscure ownership rather than to organise it.
Reinvesting in the UAE rather than repatriating?
Clients who have built a profitable UAE business frequently ask the same follow-up question: what to do with the proceeds locally. Oznet Properties advises on Dubai real estate acquisition and investment, with the corporate and tax position already understood.
Written by the people who do the work.
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A conversation before a quotation.
Forty minutes with an advisor who will tell you what we would do and, where relevant, why you may not need us at all. No licence quoted on the first call.
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