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UAE Federal Tax Authority: Corporate-tax filing and records
The UAE Federal Tax Authority specifies the seven-year corporate-tax record-retention period and examples of evidence needed to support returns, taxable income and exempt status.
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What the source contributes
The UAE Federal Tax Authority specifies the seven-year corporate-tax record-retention period and examples of evidence needed to support returns, taxable income and exempt status.
Corporate-tax record retention: 7 years. Reference period: After the end of the relevant tax period. Status in the Horizon dossier: Observed.
Official nine-month return and payment deadline and seven-year record-retention rule.
Horizon synthesis and use
- The value is retained with its period and status. It is not converted into a synthetic market-attractiveness score or treated as a company-specific forecast.
- Use the notice to design a tax evidence file that survives filing, payment and later review rather than retaining only the submitted return.
Before using the evidence
Four questions that keep the conclusion honest
- 01Which legal activity, applicant type and jurisdiction does “UAE Federal Tax Authority: Corporate-tax filing and records” actually cover?
- 02Which approval, filing, fee, eligibility condition or competent authority is stated directly, and which still requires written confirmation?
- 03Does the rule apply to United Arab Emirates · How to do business, United Arab Emirates country dashboard, United Arab Emirates how-to-do-business dossier, or only to a narrower licence, entity, free zone, product or worker category?
- 04The record was reviewed on 2026-10-29; what has UAE Federal Tax Authority changed or superseded since that date?
Where Horizon integrates this source