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Corporate tax: the reports your accountant will ask for
The corporate tax return is only as reliable as the books behind it. Most of the year-end scramble is avoidable, and it comes down to what you tracked during the year.
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Statements that trace back
A profit and loss statement that cannot be drilled into is not much use when a figure is queried. What your accountant wants is a number they can click through to the underlying entries, because that is what makes an adjustment defensible rather than asserted.
Related parties, tracked as you go
Intercompany and related-party transactions need to be identifiable. Tagging them at the point of posting takes a moment; reconstructing them from a full year of entries in March does not. For UAE family groups running several licences from one back office, this is usually the single biggest year-end time sink.
Free-zone income, separated at source
Free-zone entities generally need qualifying and non-qualifying revenue reported distinctly. Configuring that separation at the transaction level is considerably easier than untangling a year of mixed entries, and it is the kind of decision that is cheap to make early and expensive to retrofit.