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Chapter: 5 Who Is a Non-Resident Taxable Person under UAE Corporate Tax? — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Welcome back to chapter 5. In chapter
  2. 0:03four, we discussed about uh resident uh
  3. 0:07jurorical person and resident natural
  4. 0:09person. Now in chapter 5, we are going
  5. 0:12to discuss about non-residents.
  6. 0:15When a non-resident will be subject to
  7. 0:18corporate tax in UAE and uh on what
  8. 0:21basis they will pay taxes and when is
  9. 0:23their registration deadline and what is
  10. 0:26their obligation in corporate tax. This
  11. 0:27is what we are going to discuss.
  12. 0:30Now non-resident similar same like
  13. 0:34resident I'm bifocating into
  14. 0:38two which is jurorical person
  15. 0:42and uh natural person.
  16. 0:47When it comes to jurorical person when a
  17. 0:50jurorical person will be subject to
  18. 0:53corporate tax if that person is a
  19. 0:54non-resident. Non-resident is like you
  20. 0:57know someone who is uh a foreign company
  21. 0:59you can make it very simple it's a
  22. 1:02foreign company when a foreign company
  23. 1:04will be subject to UAE corporate tax
  24. 1:07this is what we are going to discuss
  25. 1:10there are three situation a jurorical
  26. 1:12person will be subject to corporate tax
  27. 1:14in UAE first one if the foreign company
  28. 1:20has a permanent
  29. 1:23establishment in 2A
  30. 1:30in short form we can call it PE.
  31. 1:33Second one if a foreign company has a
  32. 1:37nexus
  33. 1:38in UAE.
  34. 1:41Third scenario if a foreign uh company
  35. 1:46has any source income
  36. 1:50from UAE.
  37. 1:54These are the three situation when a
  38. 1:57non-resident a foreign company will be
  39. 2:00subject to corporate tax in UAE where it
  40. 2:02is explained in corporate tax law. It is
  41. 2:05explained in corporate tax law again
  42. 2:06article 11.
  43. 2:11Now we are going to discuss what is
  44. 2:14permanent establishment, what is nexus,
  45. 2:16what is source income.
  46. 2:19Before that for resident any resident
  47. 2:23person like they are going to pay taxes
  48. 2:26in UAE on their worldwide income.
  49. 2:31We discussed this in the previous
  50. 2:33chapter where it is explained they are
  51. 2:36going to pay taxes on worldwide income.
  52. 2:38Article 12 of UA corporate tax law. In
  53. 2:41the same article, article 12, it is
  54. 2:44explained that if a person is a
  55. 2:46non-resident, if a person is a
  56. 2:48non-resident, they are not going to tax
  57. 2:51on the worldwide income. Instead, that
  58. 2:54foreign company will be paying taxes on
  59. 2:57the income
  60. 3:00generated from UAE.
  61. 3:06If a foreign company is generating any
  62. 3:08income from UAE, UAE will tax only in so
  63. 3:12far that income is attributable to UAE,
  64. 3:16not only worldwide income.
  65. 3:19When
  66. 3:21an income which is attributable to UAE
  67. 3:24will be sub.
  68. 3:31So means
  69. 3:34the foreign company if they have PE or
  70. 3:37nexus or source income whatever income
  71. 3:39they're generating from those PE or
  72. 3:42nexus or the income from source that
  73. 3:44will be subject to UA corporate tax.
  74. 3:50Now what is permanent establishment?
  75. 3:52Permanent establishment means
  76. 3:55in simple form you can you can say it's
  77. 3:58a presence
  78. 4:00in the country.
  79. 4:03How a foreign company can have presence
  80. 4:06in in in UAE? Either they can have a
  81. 4:09fixed place in UAE
  82. 4:13or they can have
  83. 4:15people in UAE.
  84. 4:19In technical term it's it's called fixed
  85. 4:21place PE and agency PE. We will discuss
  86. 4:23this. If a foreign company a UK company
  87. 4:27has a fixed place in UAE when how they
  88. 4:29can have a fixed place in UAE, they can
  89. 4:31have a branch.
  90. 4:34They can have a office, they can have
  91. 4:37some u some mine,
  92. 4:42oil rig,
  93. 4:44it can be anything. If a foreign
  94. 4:47company, a UK company is has a presence
  95. 4:50in UAE through a fixed place, then it is
  96. 4:54called permanent establishment.
  97. 4:57Now that UK company required to pay
  98. 5:00taxes in UAE only the income which is
  99. 5:03generated from the PE
  100. 5:06or it can be through people also depend
  101. 5:09uh agency PE also. Let's say UK company
  102. 5:12has 10 employees in UAE and these 10
  103. 5:14employees are working for UK company
  104. 5:17sitting in UAE and they are generating
  105. 5:19income that means the people in UAE is
  106. 5:24considered as a permanent establishment.
  107. 5:27Now in entire this when it this is
  108. 5:30actually comes to a crossber transaction
  109. 5:32issue that transaction between country
  110. 5:34to country. When it comes to crossber
  111. 5:37transaction there are always always two
  112. 5:40topics which we can fight from morning
  113. 5:42to evening and nobody is going to win.
  114. 5:45First one is PE.
  115. 5:48whether UAE company has uh sorry foreign
  116. 5:51company has PE in UAE or not or whether
  117. 5:55UAE company has a PE outside UAE or not.
  118. 5:58Second thing transfer pricing. What is
  119. 6:01transfer pricing? We discussed I
  120. 6:03remember it was in third chapter.
  121. 6:05Transfer pricing means any transaction
  122. 6:08which is happening between related
  123. 6:10parties uh or connected person it is at
  124. 6:13market value. So people can fight yes it
  125. 6:16is at market value. the authority can
  126. 6:17tell no it's not at market value. So
  127. 6:19these two topics also PE um like
  128. 6:23companies can tell yes my company has a
  129. 6:26PE in UAE my company has no PE in UAE
  130. 6:29and authority can give a different
  131. 6:30argument. So these two things are very
  132. 6:34subjective and uh
  133. 6:37we cannot like as I told like if a UK
  134. 6:39company has three four people in UAE the
  135. 6:42UK company can tell it's not a PE UA tax
  136. 6:45authority can tell it's a PE and in the
  137. 6:47entire world there is a lot of cases
  138. 6:49happening in in uh in and around about
  139. 6:53permanent establishment and if you see
  140. 6:56the country which has the most
  141. 6:58interesting and most number of PE cases
  142. 7:01is India India.
  143. 7:03You can check in internet. There are a
  144. 7:05lot of permanent establishment related
  145. 7:08cases uh which happened in India. There
  146. 7:11was a case of Formula 1.
  147. 7:16Formula 1 put a track a racing track in
  148. 7:20India and Indian income tax authority
  149. 7:23told it's a PE. That track is a PE. Uh
  150. 7:26second, recently there was a case of a
  151. 7:30UAE based hotel.
  152. 7:34This was happened I believe in 2025.
  153. 7:37The the UA I forgot the name. I think it
  154. 7:40was Hayat or some some group they uh
  155. 7:43like Indian income tax authority told
  156. 7:45like they have a PE in India because
  157. 7:47they are consulting other uh hotel
  158. 7:50groups etc etc. So permanent
  159. 7:53establishment is a very subjective
  160. 7:56concept which like you know countries
  161. 8:00and tax authority versus companies are
  162. 8:02keep fighting. It will never end.
  163. 8:06Now coming back to our topic if a
  164. 8:09foreign company has a permanent
  165. 8:11establishment in UAE then in that case
  166. 8:14that foreign company need to pay taxes
  167. 8:17in UAE. In so far the income the foreign
  168. 8:21company generated through this permanent
  169. 8:23establishment.
  170. 8:26If they have a permanent establishment
  171. 8:29then the next question is like when they
  172. 8:31need to register
  173. 8:34when they need to register.
  174. 8:37Once they registered
  175. 8:39then the next question is when they need
  176. 8:41to
  177. 8:43file tax return. the same flow which we
  178. 8:46discussed about resident
  179. 8:49then when they need to dregister.
  180. 8:55Now before getting into this let me give
  181. 8:57a little more uh idea about these
  182. 8:58things.
  183. 9:00Let's take an example of branch.
  184. 9:03If a UK company is opening a branch they
  185. 9:07may be having a trade license.
  186. 9:09Just because they have a trade license
  187. 9:12does that mean they have a PE in UAE?
  188. 9:14No,
  189. 9:16just because they don't have a trade
  190. 9:18license, that doesn't mean they don't
  191. 9:20have a PE. So PE is a concept. We need
  192. 9:24to realize or analyze that whether a
  193. 9:27foreign company has a PE in UAE or not.
  194. 9:30[snorts] As I told if a UK company take
  195. 9:34a branch license in UAE, they have not
  196. 9:36taken any office. They don't have any
  197. 9:38employee. They just have a trade
  198. 9:39license. That trade license itself
  199. 9:41cannot become a PE in UAE.
  200. 9:45UK company has a trade license and bank
  201. 9:47account. Bank account cannot be
  202. 9:49considered as a PE.
  203. 9:52Now on the flip side, UK company does
  204. 9:54not have a trade license but most of
  205. 9:56their employees are sitting in UAE and
  206. 9:58working. That means even though they
  207. 10:00don't have a trade license in UAE, it
  208. 10:03can be considered as a PE. When it comes
  209. 10:06to PE, the safe word we you need to
  210. 10:10always use is may because we cannot tell
  211. 10:13will, should, can. It will be always may
  212. 10:17because nobody can give guarantee
  213. 10:19whether it's a PE or not.
  214. 10:25I've seen like many many companies they
  215. 10:27have they have opened representative
  216. 10:30offices branches in UAE and when the
  217. 10:33corporate tax deadline was kicking like
  218. 10:35then uh many companies like you know
  219. 10:38misunderstood the law or they misread
  220. 10:40the interpretation and uh they got got
  221. 10:44into the registration. Now when they
  222. 10:46registered when they are filing they
  223. 10:49need to pay taxes on the income which is
  224. 10:51attributable to this PE
  225. 10:55they don't have any operation they don't
  226. 10:56have any employees then they don't have
  227. 10:58any income which is attributable to this
  228. 11:00UA branch then obviously the question is
  229. 11:03there in why they registered in first
  230. 11:06place so a foreign entity need to
  231. 11:09register in UAE after doing a proper
  232. 11:13permanent establishment analysis is if
  233. 11:16they identified that we don't have a PE
  234. 11:19in UAE that means they don't require to
  235. 11:22register for register in UAE.
  236. 11:26Now when and one more thing when you
  237. 11:29approach any non-resident thing see
  238. 11:31resident is someone who is registered in
  239. 11:34UAE they are doing business in UAE it
  240. 11:36can be natural resident natural or
  241. 11:38jurorical when it comes to non-resident
  242. 11:42we need to always always refer a
  243. 11:45document called DTA
  244. 11:48some some places it's called DTAWA what
  245. 11:51does that mean double tax avoidance
  246. 11:53agreement or double tax agreement and
  247. 11:55DTA, DTAA. What is DTA? DTA means an
  248. 11:59agreement signed between
  249. 12:04two countries.
  250. 12:09Always refer the DTA. What is written in
  251. 12:13DTA about permanent establishment?
  252. 12:16I think it is generally uh explained in
  253. 12:20article five or six in DTA. Always there
  254. 12:26will be a clause about permanent
  255. 12:27establishment. When a foreign company
  256. 12:30can consider as a permanent
  257. 12:32establishment in another country, this
  258. 12:34is always explained. Now before making a
  259. 12:37judgment that okay they have a like you
  260. 12:41know the foreign company
  261. 12:43is doing some construction in in UAE
  262. 12:47before making a judgment yeah they are
  263. 12:48doing a construction it's a PE or they
  264. 12:51are providing any long-term services in
  265. 12:53UAE it's a PE always go back to the DTA
  266. 12:56and read what is written in the DTA
  267. 12:59about the PE concept and maybe they will
  268. 13:02tell even if a UK company is doing some
  269. 13:06activity through a fixed place but that
  270. 13:10activity is for a short term let's say
  271. 13:12for 3 months then it is not considered
  272. 13:14as a P I'm just giving a hypothetical
  273. 13:16example to you
  274. 13:18whereas if we make an interpretation
  275. 13:21that the foreign company is conducting a
  276. 13:23business activity in UAE through a fixed
  277. 13:25place and uh then they are a PE they
  278. 13:28need to register that will more likely
  279. 13:31go wrong.
  280. 13:34So always refer DTAA to understand
  281. 13:37whether the foreign company has a PE or
  282. 13:40not. If they have a PE, the foreign
  283. 13:44company have a PE then that means they
  284. 13:47need to register for corporate tax. when
  285. 13:50they need to register for corporate tax.
  286. 13:51They need to register for corporate tax
  287. 13:54within
  288. 13:586 months
  289. 14:01of PE
  290. 14:03established.
  291. 14:06Now the authority doesn't know when you
  292. 14:09got established your PE. As I told just
  293. 14:11because you have a trade license, you
  294. 14:13you should not consider 6 months from
  295. 14:15the date of trade license because you
  296. 14:18don't have a trade license you should
  297. 14:20not say like I don't have a trade
  298. 14:21license. Always understand on which day
  299. 14:25you established your PE in UAE and from
  300. 14:28that day within 3 months or within 6
  301. 14:31months you the foreign PE required to
  302. 14:35register for corporate tax and once they
  303. 14:38registered for corporate tax then they
  304. 14:40need to file the annual tax return
  305. 14:44and once the the PE is uh there is no
  306. 14:46more PE they they like you know example
  307. 14:49they had three four employees now Those
  308. 14:51employees moved from UA to outside now
  309. 14:54then there is no PE that means then they
  310. 14:56can dregister then dregistration is also
  311. 15:00within 3 months
  312. 15:03from no PE
  313. 15:07from no PE. So a foreign company
  314. 15:10required to register the first scenario
  315. 15:12the foreign company has a PE in UAE.
  316. 15:15All these things about permanent
  317. 15:17establishment in UAE is explained in
  318. 15:20article 14 of corporate tax law. If you
  319. 15:24remember in the previous chapter we told
  320. 15:26we are going to discuss article 11 to
  321. 15:28article 15. [clears throat] So article
  322. 15:3114 is talking about uh permanent
  323. 15:34establishment. Following to that article
  324. 15:3715
  325. 15:40is explaining about investment
  326. 15:44manager
  327. 15:47exemption.
  328. 15:49Now think of a situation a foreign
  329. 15:52company want to invest
  330. 15:55uh in shares or bonds or or like you
  331. 15:58know something in in UAE and they found
  332. 16:01out a investment manager in UAE to
  333. 16:04handle their investment. It's a third
  334. 16:07party
  335. 16:09and the investment manager or investment
  336. 16:12management company. It is their ordinary
  337. 16:14business
  338. 16:16that they are doing this for others
  339. 16:18also. Investment management
  340. 16:22also investment manager is getting paid
  341. 16:25for the service
  342. 16:29for service because they are managing
  343. 16:30the portfolio
  344. 16:33at market value.
  345. 16:39Now the question is is this investment
  346. 16:41manager can be considered as a PE for
  347. 16:44the foreign company. If the investment
  348. 16:46manager become a PE what is going to
  349. 16:49happen the foreign company required to
  350. 16:51register in UAE. So here article 15
  351. 16:54explained that
  352. 16:56if a foreign company has some investment
  353. 16:58in UAE and it is managed by an
  354. 17:02independent uh investment manager and
  355. 17:05that investment manager is getting paid
  356. 17:07at market value and that the activity
  357. 17:10what the manager is doing is in the
  358. 17:12ordinary course of business of that
  359. 17:14particular person
  360. 17:16then it is not a PE just because someone
  361. 17:19is managing a foreign company's
  362. 17:21investment and this conditions are
  363. 17:23satisfied then it is not a PE. This is
  364. 17:26what explained in article 15 of the UA
  365. 17:30corporate tax law.
  366. 17:32Now moving into the second category of a
  367. 17:36situation where a foreign company need
  368. 17:38to register. First we told PE second we
  369. 17:41told Nexus.
  370. 17:43What is nexus?
  371. 17:46In corporate tax law, it's just told if
  372. 17:48a foreign company has a nexus in UAE,
  373. 17:51then the income generated from that
  374. 17:53nexus will be subject to corporate tax.
  375. 17:56This is what explained in tax law. Now,
  376. 17:59what is nexus? This uh things explained
  377. 18:03in cabinet decision number
  378. 18:1056 of 2023.
  379. 18:13The uh literal meaning of nexus you can
  380. 18:16say like you know connection
  381. 18:21what is the foreign company's connection
  382. 18:22in UAE what is the foreign company's
  383. 18:24nexus in UAE it can be anything it was
  384. 18:27so much of confusing when the tax law
  385. 18:29came what they mean by nexus then later
  386. 18:32a cabinet decision got published 56 of
  387. 18:352023 and it clearly explained that nexus
  388. 18:38means
  389. 18:41nexus means
  390. 18:44Immovable
  391. 18:46properties.
  392. 18:51Immovable properties. Example, if a UK
  393. 18:55company has a real estate in UAE which
  394. 19:00is owned by a UK company, this real
  395. 19:02estate property can be considered as a
  396. 19:05nexus. So if a foreign company has any
  397. 19:07immovable property in UAE, it's not only
  398. 19:10always real estate, it can be any
  399. 19:12immovable property. Then that foreign
  400. 19:15company is considered having a nexus in
  401. 19:19UAE. Foreign company is considered
  402. 19:21having a nexus in UAE. If they have a
  403. 19:24nexus, then
  404. 19:26they need to pay the taxes on the income
  405. 19:28generated from Nexus. Now this cabinet
  406. 19:30decision number 56 of 2023 is gave a
  407. 19:35blanket rule that if a foreign entity
  408. 19:37has a uh immobile property in UAE then
  409. 19:41that immobile property will be subject
  410. 19:43to corporate tax that will means that
  411. 19:45foreign company has a nexus in UAE.
  412. 19:48Further in 2025 there is a new cabinet
  413. 19:51decision issued which is cabinet
  414. 19:53decision number 35 of 2025
  415. 19:57which further explained that if a
  416. 20:00foreign company has some investment in
  417. 20:03UAE and that investment they have made
  418. 20:05through some qualifying investment fund
  419. 20:09or real estate investment trust
  420. 20:13then subject to certain conditions they
  421. 20:15can avoid this nexus. We will discuss
  422. 20:18that in later stage. It is a bit
  423. 20:20complication complicated. There are
  424. 20:22certain percentages. All these things
  425. 20:24are there. For your current
  426. 20:25understanding, it is good enough to
  427. 20:27understand that if a foreign company has
  428. 20:30a uh immobile property in UAE, that
  429. 20:34means that foreign company has a nexus
  430. 20:36in UAE. And if they have a nexus in UAE,
  431. 20:38the income generated from that uh nexus
  432. 20:41will be subject to corporate tax. If
  433. 20:45they have a nexus then the next question
  434. 20:47is when they need to register.
  435. 20:51They need to register within 3 months
  436. 20:55from
  437. 20:57the day
  438. 20:59Nexus is there
  439. 21:02then they need to file. When they need
  440. 21:04to file same within 9 months from the
  441. 21:07end of tax year once the nexus is not
  442. 21:11there then they can they need to
  443. 21:13dregister also
  444. 21:16again when they need to dregister within
  445. 21:183 months.
  446. 21:20So this is about nexus in short a
  447. 21:22foreign company has a real estate uh or
  448. 21:24a mobile property in UAE. If yes it is
  449. 21:27considered as a nexus. From the day they
  450. 21:29have nexus they need to register and
  451. 21:31file the annual tax return and when the
  452. 21:33nexus is not there within 3 months they
  453. 21:35need to dregister also.
  454. 21:39Now the third last category is source
  455. 21:42income.
  456. 21:44If a foreign company has a PE or nexus
  457. 21:49then they need to register.
  458. 21:52What if a foreign company is earning
  459. 21:53some income from UAE
  460. 21:57and they don't have PE or they neither
  461. 22:00have PE nor uh have uh nexus what what
  462. 22:03could be the situation I'll give you
  463. 22:05certain source income example
  464. 22:09service provided
  465. 22:14interest earned and
  466. 22:22IP income.
  467. 22:24Now if a foreign company let's let's say
  468. 22:28a US company this US company is
  469. 22:31providing some services to a UAE company
  470. 22:34one Indian company and this company has
  471. 22:38a fixed deposit in UAE bank and one uh
  472. 22:42Canada company Canadian company they
  473. 22:45have they are getting some royalty from
  474. 22:48their intellectual property they have
  475. 22:50some trademark or patent and that they
  476. 22:53have given to a UA company and they are
  477. 22:55getting uh royalty from these things.
  478. 22:57What will happen in this situation? Is
  479. 22:59it a PE? No.
  480. 23:02US company provided services to UAE
  481. 23:05company. If they have provided this
  482. 23:07service through like you know a PE means
  483. 23:10through a branch or through an office or
  484. 23:13through a agency then that can be a PE.
  485. 23:16If it is a PE then they need to register
  486. 23:19file everything will come in picture.
  487. 23:24If uh Indian company has a fixed deposit
  488. 23:27in UAE from where the income is
  489. 23:29generated the interest income is
  490. 23:31generated from UAE only. But does that
  491. 23:35mean the Indian company uh has a PE in
  492. 23:37UAE? No. Is it an excess? No. Then what
  493. 23:40will happen then it is considered as a
  494. 23:42source income.
  495. 23:45Same way IP income. they give a
  496. 23:48trademark or a patent to a UA company,
  497. 23:50Canada company and UAE company is paying
  498. 23:54uh royalty out of it for the IP which is
  499. 23:57getting used. Now from where Canada
  500. 24:00company is getting this income, this
  501. 24:01income is sourced from UAE. Does the
  502. 24:04Canada company uh require to register
  503. 24:07here? No, there is no if there is no PE
  504. 24:10no excess then no need to register but
  505. 24:13it is still a UAE source income. So if
  506. 24:16there is a UA source income, it is
  507. 24:19explained in article
  508. 24:2213
  509. 24:25that if there is a source income from
  510. 24:28UAE then that means it is subject to
  511. 24:32withholding tax.
  512. 24:36Withholding tax means when a UAE company
  513. 24:39paying for this particular uh services.
  514. 24:44Let's say we told like US company
  515. 24:46provided some services to UAE company.
  516. 24:49When UAE company paying the service
  517. 24:51charges, they are going to deduct
  518. 24:53certain amount. They're going to deduct
  519. 24:56certain amount and balance they are
  520. 24:58going to pay to us.
  521. 25:00Now this is called withholding tax. tax
  522. 25:03deducting at the source and balance will
  523. 25:06be paid. That means then they're telling
  524. 25:08okay we have taken our part of taxes now
  525. 25:12you can take the money you don't need to
  526. 25:13register here because you are a foreign
  527. 25:16company like UAE cannot ask every
  528. 25:18foreign company to come and register
  529. 25:20here but at the same time uh it is very
  530. 25:23important to have a withholding tax
  531. 25:26otherwise what is going to happen there
  532. 25:28is a huge chance that uh the companies
  533. 25:32in UAE they are going to take services
  534. 25:35from outside UAE
  535. 25:37When there is a withholding tax the
  536. 25:39companies will think that okay if we are
  537. 25:42taking this outside UA then we need to
  538. 25:44deduct the withholding tax and pay. If
  539. 25:47it is within the country then there is
  540. 25:48no withholding tax. Withholding tax is
  541. 25:50coming under the cross uh concept of
  542. 25:54crossber transaction.
  543. 25:57Withholding tax is explained in
  544. 25:58corporate tax law article 45. Article 45
  545. 26:02has explained uh about withholding tax.
  546. 26:05Currently withholding tax is at 0%.
  547. 26:09Now the difference is that why they told
  548. 26:110% when there is no withholding tax.
  549. 26:14It's not that there is no withholding
  550. 26:15tax. They told withholding tax is
  551. 26:17applicable in UAE but currently the rate
  552. 26:20is 0%. So there is a higher possibility
  553. 26:23that in future authority will come and
  554. 26:25tell uh this is the withholding tax
  555. 26:28rate. Example let's say 5 percentage or
  556. 26:307 it can be any percentage. So right now
  557. 26:33it is at 0%age.
  558. 26:37In short we are discussing about foreign
  559. 26:41company. Foreign company they are taxed
  560. 26:44in UAE in three situation. Situation
  561. 26:46number one if they have a PE. If they
  562. 26:48have a PE it can be uh branch, it can be
  563. 26:52office, it can be anything like you know
  564. 26:54which is considered as a PE. If yes that
  565. 26:57means they need to register here. always
  566. 27:00refer the DTAA and uh uh based on the
  567. 27:04DTAA we need to make a determination. If
  568. 27:07there is a PE they need to register they
  569. 27:09need to file the tax return and once the
  570. 27:11PE is not there they need to dregister
  571. 27:13also. Nexus. Nexus we discussed that the
  572. 27:16there are two cabinet decision. Cabinet
  573. 27:18decision number uh 56 of 2023 and 35 of
  574. 27:222025. Uh like we discussed that if a
  575. 27:25foreign company has a real estate
  576. 27:27investment or a immobile property
  577. 27:29investment in UAE then that is
  578. 27:31considered as a
  579. 27:33uh nexus in UAE. And uh if they have a
  580. 27:38nexus within 3 months they need to
  581. 27:41register and file the tax return. And
  582. 27:43once they don't have an access they need
  583. 27:45to dregister. Also if a foreign company
  584. 27:48is getting any other income from UA
  585. 27:50source neither through PE nor through uh
  586. 27:55nexus then it is considered as UA source
  587. 27:58income and UA source income currently
  588. 28:01subject to withholding tax and the
  589. 28:03withholding tax rate right now it is 0%.
  590. 28:07This is about the whole thing. Now we
  591. 28:11discussed about resident
  592. 28:14we discussed about non-resident
  593. 28:19certain
  594. 28:21uh certain like you know benefits about
  595. 28:24taxes which is applicable for both
  596. 28:27resident and non-resident
  597. 28:29certain things are exclusively for
  598. 28:32resident now if I'm telling 375,000
  599. 28:36dhams is zero tax
  600. 28:38for a non-resident also it up to 375,000
  601. 28:41dham it is 0%age tax. So this is this
  602. 28:44threshold is available for both resident
  603. 28:46and non-resident.
  604. 28:48We discussed about free zone. We
  605. 28:51discussed about qualifying free zone
  606. 28:52person. That means a freezone company
  607. 28:55subject to uh conditions they will be
  608. 28:58eligible for 0%age corporate tax. This
  609. 29:01benefit is available for resident free
  610. 29:03zone company also.
  611. 29:07A foreign company who has a PE or like
  612. 29:10you know a branch branch of a foreign
  613. 29:13company also can get a qualifying free
  614. 29:15zone benefit.
  615. 29:17So like this certain benefits are
  616. 29:19available for uh resident also
  617. 29:21non-resident also but certain benefits
  618. 29:25which are exclusively available for
  619. 29:27residents only not available for
  620. 29:30non-residents at all. What are all those
  621. 29:32benefits which are available for
  622. 29:34residents? Number one small business
  623. 29:37relief.
  624. 29:39Small business relief is available only
  625. 29:41for residents.
  626. 29:44This resident can be georitical also,
  627. 29:47natural also.
  628. 29:50So if a individual
  629. 29:52natural person who is conducting
  630. 29:54business and getting more than 1 million
  631. 29:57got registered
  632. 30:00if that person is getting revenue in a
  633. 30:02year below 3 million dhams
  634. 30:06and uh like regardless that person is a
  635. 30:08natural person or judical person as long
  636. 30:10as the person is a resident then that
  637. 30:13person can get small business relief.
  638. 30:15Second one tax group
  639. 30:19which we are yet to discuss. Tax group
  640. 30:21means two or more companies can create a
  641. 30:25group and after creating the group they
  642. 30:28are going to have one tax registration
  643. 30:30number and one tax filing. So this tax
  644. 30:33group why people should do is it good to
  645. 30:35do what are all the conditions
  646. 30:38when it is recommended we will discuss
  647. 30:40when the tax group things comes
  648. 30:43but for the time being tax group can be
  649. 30:46made only by residents.
  650. 30:49A foreign company's branch cannot make a
  651. 30:52tax group. Third thing
  652. 30:56qualifying
  653. 30:58group relief.
  654. 31:00Qualifying group relief again this all
  655. 31:03will come in the subsequent chapters.
  656. 31:05Qualifying group relief means two
  657. 31:08companies two companies can transfer the
  658. 31:11assets or liabilities between the
  659. 31:13companies. There are conditions there
  660. 31:15should be 75%age ownership and all.
  661. 31:17There are conditions for that. If the
  662. 31:19conditions are satisfied company A can
  663. 31:22transfer the assets to company B without
  664. 31:26gain or loss. Whatever at the cost they
  665. 31:28can transfer. So that means there will
  666. 31:30be no uh profit generated in this
  667. 31:33transaction and there will be no tax
  668. 31:35applicability on this transactions.
  669. 31:38This qualifying group relief is
  670. 31:40available only for a resident uh person.
  671. 31:46Fourth one is loss transfer.
  672. 31:51In UAE corporate tax law, a company who
  673. 31:54made a loss can transfer their loss to
  674. 31:57another company who made a profit.
  675. 32:00Again, there are conditions for this. We
  676. 32:02will we will discuss like there are
  677. 32:04three articles which is exclusively
  678. 32:06talking about losses and loss transfer
  679. 32:09and loss carry forward. But for the time
  680. 32:11being it is loss can be transferred
  681. 32:13between companies. If company A made 1
  682. 32:16million loss and company B made 2
  683. 32:19million profit, company B can take this
  684. 32:21loss from company A and reduce the
  685. 32:24profit and pay the taxes on the
  686. 32:26difference. This loss transfer is
  687. 32:28available only for uh
  688. 32:32only for uh resident uh persons not for
  689. 32:36the non-resident person. Now it's a
  690. 32:38matter of subjective question. Uh
  691. 32:40example, this is especially for those
  692. 32:42who are into consultancy. your client is
  693. 32:44coming and asking I I'm a foreign
  694. 32:46company and I'm thinking of setting up
  695. 32:49something in UA should I set up a uh
  696. 32:53branch or a subsidiary see there are
  697. 32:56positive side also negative side also
  698. 32:58for everything now I always analyze this
  699. 33:02things that when it comes what is the
  700. 33:04actual requirement whether they should
  701. 33:06go for a standalone company or a
  702. 33:08subsidiary or a branch and one of the
  703. 33:10things what I consider is on the
  704. 33:12corporate tax benefits
  705. 33:14If they become a cor uh like a
  706. 33:17subsidiary they can be getting certain
  707. 33:19benefits like as I told small business
  708. 33:21relief small business relief cannot be
  709. 33:24availed if someone who is setting up a
  710. 33:26company in UAE as a branch. So it is
  711. 33:29highly subjective. Now
  712. 33:33last two chapters what we have discussed
  713. 33:35is on the taxable person. we discussed
  714. 33:38uh about uh resident and uh jurical
  715. 33:42natural person we discussed about the
  716. 33:44same way for the non-resident as well.
  717. 33:48Now we have discussed about taxable
  718. 33:51person. Now then next what we are going
  719. 33:53to discuss
  720. 33:55which I will consider it as a bit of
  721. 33:58boring uh chapters which is exempt
  722. 34:01person. Why it is a bit boring that also
  723. 34:05I will tell to you. Exempt person is not
  724. 34:08something on a day-to-day things which
  725. 34:10we will see once once in a blue moon we
  726. 34:13will get uh to deal with some exempt
  727. 34:15person not to everyone I'm just telling
  728. 34:18my personal opinion uh like you know uh
  729. 34:21there there there are uh qualifying
  730. 34:24investment fund qualifying charitable
  731. 34:26trust all these things on a day-to-day
  732. 34:28basis what we are dealing is taxable
  733. 34:30persons those who are subject to tax uh
  734. 34:33and they are paying taxes on the
  735. 34:35different different rates But yes, we
  736. 34:37will touch upon exempt person also in
  737. 34:39next chapter. And uh see you in next
  738. 34:42chapter.

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