Tax Consultant in Dubai, UAE
Registered Tax Agent Regulated by the FTA (Federal Tax Authority)
Tax Consultancy Services in the UAE
Get tax positions right the first time, across VAT, Corporate Tax, Excise, and cross-border obligations.
The UAE’s tax framework, spanning VAT, Corporate Tax, Excise Tax, and Economic Substance Regulations, creates compliance obligations that require accurate interpretation, timely action, and ongoing management. Farahat & Co. provides tax consultancy services for businesses, investors, and individuals across the UAE, structured around each client’s specific obligations and industry.
- Full tax coverage: VAT, Corporate Tax, Excise Tax, transfer pricing, and ESR advisory under one roof.
- Registration and filing: accurate, on-time FTA registration and return preparation across all tax types.
- Audit and dispute support: pre-audit reviews, FTA representation, and reconsideration application preparation.
- Industry-specific advisory: tailored guidance across real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and more.
Whether you need ongoing compliance support or advisory for a specific transaction or restructuring, our tax consultants build guidance around your actual obligations rather than a generic checklist.
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What Does a Tax Consultant Do?
A tax consultant provides expert advisory and compliance services on Corporate Tax, VAT, Excise Tax, and other obligations under UAE law, helping businesses navigate registration, filing, reporting, audit preparation, and dispute proceedings while identifying opportunities to manage tax exposure efficiently. Tax consultants are particularly valuable for businesses that are launching, expanding, restructuring, or facing specific compliance challenges, where getting the underlying tax position wrong early tends to compound into larger problems later.
Compliance and Filing
Cross-Border and Structural Advisory
Audit and Dispute Representation
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Types of Taxes Tax Consultancy Services Cover in the UAE
The UAE operates a relatively low-tax environment, but several distinct tax regimes apply to businesses and individuals, and a tax consultant’s value lies partly in knowing how these interact for a specific business.
Corporate Tax, introduced in June 2023 under Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022, applies at a standard rate of 9% on taxable income exceeding AED 375,000, with Qualifying Free Zone Persons potentially benefiting from a 0% rate on qualifying income, and all taxable persons must register regardless of whether tax is ultimately payable. VAT is a 5% consumption tax on most goods and services, with certain supplies zero-rated, including exports and international transport, and others exempt, such as residential property.
Excise Tax applies to products considered harmful to health or the environment, including tobacco, energy drinks, and sweetened beverages, while Customs Duty applies at 5% on the CIF value of most imported goods, with higher rates on specific categories such as alcohol and tobacco.
Tax Consultant vs. Tax Accountant: What Is the Difference?
The two roles are complementary but distinct, and understanding which one a business needs at a given moment matters. A tax consultant focuses on strategic advice, planning, and compliance guidance, covering VAT, Corporate Tax, Excise Tax, FTA audits, and cross-border planning, with the objective of minimising liabilities and optimising the business’s overall tax position through advisory and risk mitigation work.
A tax accountant, by contrast, focuses on the preparation of taxes and financial record management, covering calculation, filing, bookkeeping, and financial reporting, with the objective of ensuring accuracy and deadline compliance in day-to-day operational tax management. In practice, many businesses need both functions working together, since a strong tax strategy still depends on accurate underlying financial records, and accurate records are more valuable when informed by proper tax planning.
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Industry-Specific Tax Consultancy Services
Tax obligations vary significantly across sectors, and generic advice tends to miss the specific rules that actually apply to a given industry. Our consultants provide tailored advisory across real estate and construction, covering VAT treatment of commercial and residential supplies and Corporate Tax on property income; manufacturing, covering Corporate Tax optimisation and excise planning; and healthcare and education, covering VAT compliance for medical supplies and the treatment of tuition and education exports.
Coverage also extends to retail and wholesale, hospitality and tourism, oil and gas, and marine and logistics, each of which carries its own combination of VAT, Excise, and Corporate Tax considerations. Getting industry-specific treatment right from the outset avoids the more disruptive process of correcting a misapplied tax position after several filing periods have already passed.
Economic Substance Regulations and Tax Consultancy Services
Economic Substance Regulations require certain UAE companies to demonstrate genuine economic substance in the UAE in relation to their core income-generating activities, aligning the UAE with international tax transparency standards.
Whether a business is subject to ESR depends on its specific activities and legal structure, which makes entity classification the essential first step before any reporting obligation can be properly assessed. Our ESR support covers entity classification to determine whether a company falls within scope, data collection and documentation gathering contracts and activity evidence, and ESR report preparation and submission to the relevant regulatory authority.
Where gaps are identified between a company’s actual operations and what the substance test requires, we also provide remediation advisory on the operational changes needed to close that gap before the next reporting cycle.
Work With Farahat & Co.’s Tax Consultancy Team
Farahat & Co. is a registered FTA tax agent with decades of experience providing tax advisory and compliance services across the UAE, and our team combines deep knowledge of UAE tax law with practical, industry-specific expertise that shapes advice around your actual business rather than generic guidance.
As a registered tax agent, we are formally authorised to represent businesses before the FTA, and our coverage spans VAT, Corporate Tax, Excise, ESR, transfer pricing, and dispute resolution under one roof, so clients aren’t coordinating between multiple advisors for related tax matters.
We work with startups, SMEs, and established businesses across sectors including real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, and retail, with clear timelines, a defined scope of work, and straightforward communication throughout every engagement.