We are Aurifer. We are a boutique tax and technology services firm established in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Riyadh.

In a recent Corporate Tax audit of an owner-managed UAE company, the Federal Tax Authority ('FTA') proposed to add back every element of the pay of its shareholder-director (the 'person') that went beyond the person's written employment terms. The amounts themselves were not the issue. The paperwork was.

By way of a Federal Cabinet Decision (Cabinet Decision No. 149 of 2026, issued on 1 September 2026), the UAE has amended the VAT Executive Regulations. Some of the amended provisions govern how partly exempt businesses calculate recoverable input tax. These same provisions apply from the first Tax Year commencing after 1 October 2027.

Qatar has amended more of its tax framework in the past twelve months than in the several years before it. A capital gains relief for corporate restructurings, a new mechanism allowing treaty relief to be applied directl...

On 14 July 2026, the UAE Federal Tax Authority issued Directive on Tax Transactions No. 3 of 2026 for Value Added Tax on the Method of Converting the Value of Digital Currencies into UAE Dirham. The Directive provides th...