The UAE compliance calendar: every dated filing for 2026 on one page.
A UAE entity is never “compliant” the way it is “licensed” — once, with a document to show for it. It is compliant the way a plane is airworthy: continuously, against dates that carry penalties when they pass unnoticed. These are those dates.
Three deadlines worth diarising first.
UBO changes — fifteen days
Any change in beneficial ownership must be filed within fifteen days, all entities, no materiality threshold. Penalties start at AED 50,000, and this is the deadline nobody diarises because it has no fixed date.
Small Business Relief now runs to 2029
Ministerial Decision 131 of 2026 extended the relief to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029. The AED 3 million revenue threshold is unchanged, it must have been met in every prior period, and the relief is elected in the return rather than granted automatically.
e-Invoicing is phased, and phase one is close
Businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more must appoint an accredited service provider by 30 October 2026 and be live on structured e-invoicing from 1 January 2027. Smaller businesses follow in 2027. The pilot that opened in July 2026 was voluntary.
Every date, and what each one actually requires.
Maintained as regulations move. Dates that depend on your financial year end are marked — if yours does not end in December, several of these shift with it.
Reviewed October 2026. Sourced from Ministry of Finance and Federal Tax Authority publications. This is general information, not advice on your entity.
Dates are maintained against published regulations and cabinet decisions and reviewed before publication. They are general information, not advice on your entity — the version worth acting on is the one mapped to your own financial year end, which is what the consultation below is for.
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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.
The dated PDF, mapped to the year ahead.
One email, containing the calendar as a PDF you can circulate to your accountant and your board. No sequence follows it, and if your financial year does not end in December, reply to the email and we will tell you which dates move.
Two practices, twelve services — and the same advisor across all of them.
Corporate advisory & formation
- Structure & jurisdiction advisory Mainland, free zone or offshore — decided first
- Company formation Mainland and free zone, executed against the agreed structure
- Bank account opening The file a bank actually approves
- Residency & Golden Visa Investor, employment, family
- Capital, funding & joint ventures Readiness first, introductions second
- Trademark & IP A licence is not a trademark
Accounting & taxation
- Bookkeeping & management accounts Odoo, Zoho Books, QuickBooks
- UAE corporate tax Registration, returns, the qualifying position
- VAT & e-invoicing Returns, and readiness for the phased mandate
- Audit support The file prepared as a review, not a reconstruction
- Payroll & WPS Salary processing that satisfies the Wage Protection System
- Compliance calendar Every dated deadline, one page, one PDF
Get the version that knows your year end.
Forty minutes on your entity, your financial year and your registrations, and you leave with the calendar that actually applies to you — with the accounting behind it if you want it run for you.
Last reviewed September 2026 by the Oznet Corp advisory team.