Not a regulatory update for your firm

By Consaya Editorial — 2026-09-14

The Ministry of Justice announced a meeting of the Supreme Committee for the Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. That's a policy event, not a compliance deadline.

I'm flagging this because the source was tagged as a UAE regulatory update. It isn't one. It's a government news item about criminal justice cooperation at a national level, and unless your firm is directly involved in law enforcement, international crime prevention, or judicial policy, it won't affect your books, your VAT return, or your corporate tax filing.

This matters because we get asked constantly whether Consaya tracks regulatory changes. It doesn't. We can't. Regulatory updates arrive constantly—policy shifts, new guidelines, ministerial announcements—and trying to flag every one of them would mean swamping you with noise. Government news from the Ministry of Justice lands in your email anyway if you care about it.

What Consaya does do is simple: it keeps your books filing-ready, it generates your VAT 201 and corporate-tax filing packs when they're due, and it flags what's coming up next. Those three things. Not regulatory interpretation, not eligibility checks, not integration with FTA systems. If a regulatory change actually changes what goes on your quarterly VAT return or your corporate tax filing, that's a conversation for your accountant, not your software.

The only crime here is time wasted on noise.

Source: https://www.moj.gov.ae/en/media-center/news/2/9/2026/meeting-of-the-supreme-committee-for-the-congress-on-crime-prevention-and-criminal-justice.aspx