Accountants for businesses in Sharjah
Sharjah's economy is weighted towards manufacturing, trading, logistics and a large family-owned SME base, alongside a substantial retail sector serving the emirate and the wider northern catchment.
Sharjah's economy is weighted towards manufacturing, trading, logistics and a large family-owned SME base, alongside a substantial retail sector serving the emirate and the wider northern catchment.
Sharjah businesses are disproportionately owner-managed and long-established, which produces a characteristic set of accounting issues: informal record-keeping that worked for two decades and does not satisfy Corporate Tax record requirements, accumulated balances nobody can explain, and end-of-service liabilities for long-serving staff that were never provided for.
Licensing runs through the Sharjah Economic Development Department for mainland entities, or through zones including SAIF Zone, Hamriyah Free Zone and SHAMS. The federal tax position is identical to the rest of the UAE — the same 5% VAT, the same Corporate Tax rates and deadlines, the same seven-year record retention.
For manufacturing and trading businesses, the accounting work concentrates on landed cost, inventory across locations and import VAT. For retail, it is the same mall discipline as anywhere else in the country.
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.
Sharjah — frequently asked questions
Yes, but a solvable one. UAE Corporate Tax requires records and documents supporting the return, retained for seven years, and a return derived from accounts prepared under an accepted framework. Informal records that satisfied a bank manager for twenty years generally do not meet that standard. The usual route is a catch-up engagement establishing a clean opening position, followed by a normal monthly cycle. It is more work at the start and unremarkable thereafter.
No — both are federal and identical across all seven emirates. The same 5% VAT rate and AED 375,000 registration threshold apply, and the same Corporate Tax rates, thresholds and deadlines. What genuinely differs between emirates is licensing cost, office and warehouse rent, and labour cost, all of which are real considerations — but no emirate offers a federal tax advantage over another.
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 Sharjah?
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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