UK personal exit
Manage your tax residence, split year treatment, capital gains and dividend timing before you leave.
Publications / Dubai: Tax Less Taxing
The bookA practical guide for UK business owners relocating or expanding to the UAE, written by a chartered tax adviser. The exit, the entity, and the anti-avoidance traps most people miss.
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Manage your tax residence, split year treatment, capital gains and dividend timing before you leave.
Plan your company's exit properly, control corporate residence and permanent establishment risk, and avoid anti-avoidance traps, exit charges and ongoing UK exposure.
Understand UAE corporate tax, Free Zone qualifying income, VAT and transfer pricing rules before you restructure.
A UK business owner making £300,000 in profit keeps roughly £140,000 once corporation tax and dividend tax are paid. Under the UAE's regime, the same profit could leave around £273,000, a difference of about £135,000 a year. The opportunity is real. So is the risk of getting it wrong.
Illustrative example. Actual outcomes depend on structure, residence and compliance in both jurisdictions.
Plenty of people will tell you Dubai means low tax. Far fewer will tell you what happens when HMRC starts asking questions three years later. Tax Less Taxing covers both sides of the equation. It walks you through leaving the UK cleanly, choosing the right UAE structure, and building a position that survives scrutiny, so the saving you plan for is the saving you keep.
Written for UK business owners, directors and decision-makers, across consultancy, technology, finance, professional services and e-commerce, who are weighing up the UAE. And for the accountants and advisers who support them.
Dubai: Tax – Less Taxing is a clear, practical tax guide for UK business owners who want to understand what really happens when you move, or expand, to the UAE.