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Starting and running a business in the UAE: setup, licensing, cost, freelancing and banking, explained plainly.
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Annual leave, sick leave and end-of-service basics for UAE private-sector employees
What the UAE's own government portal says about leave accrual, sick-pay tiers and gratuity calculation, and where it stops short of an individual answer.
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Hiring your first employee in the UAE: contracts, WPS and the basics
What a UAE employer must get right before paying their first salary, from the labour contract to the Wage Protection System.
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Record-keeping and bookkeeping requirements for UAE businesses
How long a UAE business must keep its financial records for VAT and Corporate Tax, and what is actually confirmed about the penalties for not doing so.
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Business licences in the UAE: what the different types mean
Ask three authorities how many licence types exist and you can get three different answers. Here is why, and what the terms actually mean.
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Freelancing and self-employment in the UAE
Freelancer, freelance permit, sole establishment, professional licence: these get used as if they mean the same thing. They don't.
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How to start a business in the UAE
The licence isn't the first step. Here's the order the mainland setup process follows, and where the five other guides pick up the detail.
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Mainland vs free zone in the UAE
Free zone does not mean cut off from the mainland. Here is what the rules actually distinguish, and what they do not.
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How to open a business bank account in the UAE
The Central Bank's own due-diligence guidance sets no minimum balance. That's set bank by bank, not left to chance.
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The real cost of starting a business in the UAE
There is no honest single figure for this either. A framework for separating what's a government fee from what's a sales pitch.