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Tax Planning

Now that Corporate Tax applies across the UAE, the way a business is structured and operated has a direct effect on its tax cost. Decisions about entities, Free Zone status, financing, and profit distribution all influence the final position. Tax planning is about making those decisions deliberately and lawfully, rather than discovering their cost at filing.

Effective planning keeps your tax position efficient while remaining fully within the law and the FTA’s substance and anti-avoidance rules. We review your business, identify legitimate reliefs and structuring options, and align tax with your wider commercial goals.

What Tax Planning Covers

Planning looks across your whole structure rather than a single return — how your entities are arranged, where activities sit, how transactions are priced, and how profits move through the group.

What’s Involved

Key Benefits

  • An efficient, fully compliant tax position.
  • Full use of available reliefs and exemptions.
  • Fewer surprises at filing and payment.
  • Structuring aligned with long-term goals.
  • Confidence that plans meet substance and anti-avoidance rules.

Why Legacy Partners

We combine tax, corporate, and legal expertise, so planning is not just theoretical — it can be implemented properly through the right entities, agreements, and documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Legitimate tax planning means arranging your affairs efficiently within the law. It is different from tax evasion, which is illegal, and from arrangements that breach the FTA’s anti-avoidance rules.

Qualifying Free Zone Persons may apply 0% on Qualifying Income if they meet the conditions, including adequate substance. Planning helps you assess and maintain that status.

Before transactions and structures are put in place. Planning is most effective when it informs decisions rather than reacting to them.

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