About
Who builds GulfTax, and how
Corporate tax arrived in the UAE in 2023 and left thousands of small businesses with the same three questions. Do I owe anything? How much? What happens if I file late? The official answers exist, spread across a few hundred pages of legislation, ministerial decisions and Federal Tax Authority guidance that were written for tax professionals rather than for the person running a six-person trading company in Sharjah.
GulfTax turns those rules into calculators you can use in about a minute, and into plain-language guides that explain the answer the calculator gave you. Everything on the site is free, there is no signup, and no page sits behind a paywall.
Who runs this site
GulfTax is built and maintained by Hamza Maghrabi, an independent operator based in the UAE. It is not a law firm, an accountancy practice or a tax agency, and it does not employ licensed tax agents. It is a reference tool built by someone who read the legislation carefully so that other business owners do not have to.
That independence is worth stating plainly because it cuts both ways. Nobody pays to be featured here, and no free zone, bank or advisory firm has any say over what the guides say about them. It also means the site carries no professional indemnity, which is exactly why the results are framed as estimates and why anything consequential should be confirmed with a licensed UAE tax agent before you act on it.
Where the numbers come from
Every rate, threshold and deadline on this site traces back to a primary source. The main ones are Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022 on the Taxation of Corporations and Businesses, Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on VAT and its Executive Regulations, Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 on employment relations, the Cabinet and Ministerial Decisions issued under each, and published Federal Tax Authority guidance.
Where a figure comes from a decision rather than the parent law, the guide names the decision. The Small Business Relief pages, for example, cite Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026 for the extension to 2029, because that extension exists nowhere in the original decree.
How the site is kept current
The FTA newsroom and the Ministry of Finance media centre are checked daily. When something is published that changes what a business has to do, meaning a rate, a threshold, a relief, a deadline or a penalty, it goes on the updates page with a link to the official source, and every figure affected is corrected across the site in both languages at the same time. Announcements that do not change anything you have to do, like award ceremonies and inspection statistics, are deliberately left out.
Verification runs on two sources before anything is published. An official press release plus independent confirmation, usually from a major UAE outlet or one of the big four tax alerts. A single source is never enough to move a number on this site.
What GulfTax is not
It is not tax advice, and using it does not create any advisor relationship. Calculator output is an estimate based on what you typed, not a filing, and it cannot see the specifics that usually decide real cases. Free zone qualification, transfer pricing, group elections, penalty reconsideration and anything involving an ongoing FTA audit all need a professional who can look at your actual records.
How it pays for itself
The site is funded by advertising. Ads are labelled, and no advertiser sees your calculator inputs, which never leave your browser in the first place. Read the privacy policy for the full detail.
Corrections
If you spot a figure that is out of date or wrong, email contact@gulftaxuae.com and say which page. Corrections to rates, thresholds and deadlines are treated as urgent and normally ship the same week. See the contact page for what else you can reach us about.