Accountants for businesses in Meydan Free Zone
Meydan Free Zone has become a common choice for e-commerce businesses, digital ventures, consultancies and small trading companies looking for a Dubai licence without a physical office commitment.
Meydan Free Zone has become a common choice for e-commerce businesses, digital ventures, consultancies and small trading companies looking for a Dubai licence without a physical office commitment.
The Meydan member base skews digital, which brings a distinctive accounting profile: revenue arriving through payment gateways and marketplaces rather than invoices, overseas software and advertising spend triggering the reverse charge, and cross-border customers raising questions about place of supply and export evidence.
The reverse charge is the item most often missed. A business paying for overseas advertising, hosting, software subscriptions and freelance services receives no VAT invoice from any of them — and concludes there is nothing to do. In fact the recipient accounts for the VAT itself, declaring output tax and recovering it in the same return where entitled. The cash effect is usually nil; the omission is still a finding.
For e-commerce operators, the gross-versus-net question on marketplace revenue is the other recurring issue — see e-commerce accounting.
What we do
- Monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliation, closed on a fixed date.
- VAT registration and returns reconciled to your ledger.
- Corporate Tax registration, computation and filing, with the elections modelled.
- Payroll and WPS, including end-of-service provisioning.
- Financial statements and audit support, with an independent registered auditor appointed where one is required.
- Management accounts — the monthly pack that tells you what is actually happening.
Reviewed 18 August 2026 by Ahmed Nabil Selim. UAE tax rates, thresholds and deadlines change — confirm the position for your period before relying on it.
Meydan Free Zone — frequently asked questions
Yes, through the reverse charge. Where a UAE business receives services from a supplier outside the UAE, it accounts for the VAT itself — declaring output tax on the value and, where entitled to full recovery, claiming the same amount as input tax in the same return. For a fully taxable business the net cash effect is usually nil, which is exactly why it gets omitted: nobody charged you anything, so nothing appears to have happened. The entries are nonetheless mandatory and their absence is a common review finding.
Possibly. The mandatory threshold is measured on taxable supplies, and zero-rated supplies are taxable supplies — so a business making qualifying exports can cross the AED 375,000 threshold and be required to register even though it charges no VAT to anyone. Registration also allows recovery of input tax on UAE costs, which for a business with meaningful local spend is a genuine cash benefit rather than a burden. The analysis depends on where your supplies are treated as made, which needs establishing rather than assuming.
Yes. We act for clients across all seven emirates and in every major free zone; the location pages cover the areas we are asked about most, not the limits of where we work. Cloud accounting makes physical proximity largely irrelevant — what matters is knowledge of the UAE regime and of your sector.
Based in Meydan Free Zone?
Tell us the licence type, roughly how many transactions a month and where things stand. We will scope the work and quote a fixed monthly fee.
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