The most expensive tax issue is the one no one tested before it became a return — and the second is the one no one defended properly when the FTA called.
We hold a substantial litigation portfolio on FTA-related matters — including a comprehensive litigation-support engagement and active cassation appeals (Emirates NBD, Hypermarket-related appeals, Little World, and a referred cassation matter through Dr. Mohamed Lari). Tax-dispute work in the UAE moves quickly through three court tiers, and we treat first-instance preparation as cassation preparation in advance.
On the advisory side, our work covers corporate-tax registration (including FTA penalty remediation for late or incorrect registrations), entity classification questions for free-zone qualifying-income analysis, VAT registration and treatment for healthcare, real estate, and financial-services activities, and the documentation that the FTA actually accepts in support.
“First-instance preparation is cassation preparation in advance.”
We coordinate closely with the client's tax-accounting team and external auditors where technical computation sits with them, and we own the legal-documentation, regulatory engagement, and litigation strands so that the client receives one coherent tax position.