Corporate Tax Registration Services in Dubai
Your EmaraTax registration and Tax Registration Number, filed inside the FTA's deadline.
Registering for Corporate Tax on EmaraTax
Registration is the first step on a company’s Corporate Tax file: an application on the FTA’s EmaraTax portal that ends in a Tax Registration Number and a registration certificate. We prepare the application from your licence and ownership documents, file it, answer the FTA’s questions and hand you the certificate.
New companies have a clock running from the day they are set up. For a juridical person incorporated on or after 1 March 2024, the FTA’s rule is to apply “within three months from the date of incorporation, establishment, or recognition” (FTA clarification on FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024, 11 June 2024). The dates for older licences are set out in our guide Corporate Tax registration: who must register and deadlines.
What we handle for you
- The application on EmaraTax, prepared from your licence, MOA and ownership details
- The registration certificate and Tax Registration Number, downloaded and sent to you
- Amendments after a licence renewal, a new MOA, a new signatory or a change of owners
- EmaraTax access: adding the right user to your account, or recovering an account nobody can open
- A late-registration penalty review and the correspondence with the FTA that follows
- Free zone companies too: registration is the same step; what follows is on Free Zone Corporate Tax
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Itemised in writing, government charges shown separately, before anything is filed.
Which one do you need?
Who has to register, and by when
- A company formed recently, inside its three-month window
- An older company that has not registered yet, and wants to know where it stands
- A sole establishment owner whose business turnover may cross the natural-person line
- A registered company whose licence, MOA or signatory has changed
- Anyone locked out of EmaraTax, whose registration is stuck behind a login
What the FTA asks for
What the FTA lists (Corporate Tax registration service, updated 26 October 2026):
- "Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum of Association, or Partnership Agreement (if available)."
- "Commercial Registration Certificate, or any official document issued by the licensing authority."
- "Valid Trade License, including branch licenses (if applicable)."
- "Emirates ID and passport of any owner holding more than 25% ownership, and of authorized signatories."
- "Proof of authorization for the signatory."
What we ask you for as well: the company email and contact number that will be used on the account, details of the shareholders and of the authorised signatory, and UAE Pass or EmaraTax access. For an amendment, the renewed licence and any revised MOA, authorisation letter or power of attorney. We confirm the final list with you at quotation.
How a registration runs
- We read your licence and MOA, and work out which registration rule applies to your dates.
- A written quote, before anything is filed.
- Access: you add us to your EmaraTax account, or we help you set one up under your own UAE Pass.
- The application is completed and checked against the documents.
- Submission and FTA questions: we file and answer any request for information.
- Your certificate: we send the TRN and the registration certificate, and note your first return date.
What the FTA publishes about the service
From the FTA's service page (Corporate Tax registration, updated 26 October 2026):
- Processing: "20 business days from the date the completed application was received"
- Service fee: "Free of charge"
The deadline and the penalty (FTA clarification, 11 June 2024): new juridical persons apply within three months of incorporation, and "Non-compliance will result in an administrative penalty of AED 10,000."
Fees: Quote on request. Our service fee is quoted in writing after a short review of your file, and any authority charge is listed separately in your quote.
The application
The registration is filed on EmaraTax in the company's own account. The FTA's list is short; most of our time goes into making sure the names, licence numbers and ownership percentages match across the licence, the MOA and the IDs, because a mismatch is what sends an application back.
Amendments
A registration is a record of the company as it was on the day it was filed. After a licence renewal, a new activity, a new shareholder or a new signatory, the record is updated with the renewed licence and the revised MOA, authorisation letter or power of attorney.
EmaraTax access
Many companies registered through a former employee or consultant and no longer control the login. We add the right user under the company's authority, or prepare the recovery request: the licence and MOA, the signatory's passport and Emirates ID, and a letter on company letterhead signed by two authorised persons and stamped.
Not published officially
- A penalty amount on the registration service page. The AED 10,000 is in the FTA's June 2024 clarification quoted above.
- Any total. We do not add charges together; your quote lists each one.
Corporate Tax registration questions
Who has to register for Corporate Tax?
Resident companies, and natural persons in business once their UAE business turnover "exceeds AED 1 million within a Gregorian calendar year" (FTA, 11 June 2024). Whether you are inside the rules is confirmed with you at quotation.
How long does a new company have?
"within three months from the date of incorporation, establishment, or recognition", for juridical persons incorporated on or after 1 March 2024 (FTA).
What if the deadline has passed?
The FTA states that "Non-compliance will result in an administrative penalty of AED 10,000" (FTA). We register you and review the penalty position with you.
What documents does the FTA ask for?
The incorporation document or MOA, the licensing authority's document, a valid trade licence, the "Emirates ID and passport of any owner holding more than 25% ownership, and of authorized signatories" and proof of the signatory's authority (FTA, updated 26 October 2026).
How long does the FTA take?
Its service page says "20 business days from the date the completed application was received" (FTA).
Does the FTA charge for registration?
Its service page lists the fee as "Free of charge" (FTA). Our own fee is quoted in writing.
Do free zone companies register?
Yes, registration is the same application. Whether the company is then a Qualifying Free Zone Person is a separate question: Free Zone Corporate Tax.
My licence was renewed. Do I need to tell the FTA?
The registration should match the current licence and ownership. We file the amendment with the renewed licence and any revised MOA or authorisation.
Nobody can log in to our EmaraTax account. Can you help?
Yes. Recovery is requested in the company's name with its licence, MOA and the signatory's ID, and a request letter on letterhead; we prepare the set and file it.
Is registering the same as filing a return?
No. Registration gives you a TRN; the return is filed each year after your tax period ends. That is on Corporate Tax Return Filing.
Every rule, deadline and threshold above names the authority that published it and the date shown on its page when we read it on 14 November 2026: the Federal Tax Authority (tax.gov.ae), the Ministry of Finance (mof.gov.ae) and the federal portal u.ae. Tax rules, fees and processing times are set by the authorities and can change without notice; confirm with the FTA before you rely on them. AL HUDHUD prepares and files on your instructions; your position is confirmed with you at quotation, and every decision rests with the Federal Tax Authority.
Last updated: November 2026.
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