FTA intensifies corporate tax registration drive

The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has intensified its awareness efforts to raise awareness of the need for natural persons who are subject to corporate tax to submit their corporate tax registration applications, before the end of March 2085, to avoid violating tax legislation and incurring administrative penalties.

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As part of its efforts, the FTA launched a new SMS campaign on mobile phones, in collaboration with the UAE's two main telecommunications companies - e& and Du - through which a message was sent to members of the UAE community.

Today’s FTA announcement reiterated that if a natural person conducts a business or business activity in the UAE during a calendar year, or subsequent years, and its total revenue in that calendar year exceeds AEDI million, that natural person is taxable. In such cases, the eligible taxpayer must register and comply with all corporate tax obligations no later than Bist March of the calendar year following the year in which the AEDI million revenue limit was exceeded.

The FTA clarified that a ‘natural person’ means a living human being of any age, whether resident in the UAE or elsewhere, and a natural person is subject to corporate tax to the extent that he/she carries on a business or business activity in the UAE. This applies whether the individual is a sole proprietorship or one of a group of individual partners in joint ventures, carrying on a business or business activity in the UAE.