The FTA's Small Business Relief Webinar Is Coming

By Consaya Editorial — 2026-08-07

The FTA just announced another webinar on small business relief. You might already know it exists, or you might have glossed over the email.

The session is about corporate tax relief for small businesses — specifically, what it means if you qualify. The relief itself has been around since corporate tax started in the UAE, but the filing requirements have teeth. If you're eligible, you have to submit a simplified return within the legal deadline. Not optional. Not when you get around to it.

Here's the actual tension: the relief reduces your compliance burden, but only if you file it correctly and on time. The FTA keeps reminding eligible businesses that "simplified" doesn't mean blank. You still need to show your numbers, prove you meet the threshold, and lodge the form before the deadline passes. Miss it and you're back to standard corporate tax filing — or worse, you face penalties for late submission.

The webinar walks through eligibility first. Are you a UAE-registered company with turnover or income below the relief threshold? Do you have no permanent establishment outside the UAE? Do you meet the substance rules? If yes to all three, you're probably in. But "probably" isn't good enough when the FTA audits your filing a year later.

What actually gets filed is simpler than a full return, but it's not a postcard. You declare your income, show your exemptions if you qualify for any, and sign off. The FTA wants clarity on why you're using the relief, not a guessing game about your financials. Virtual events like this one are meant to stop the guessing. They walk through the VAT angle too — corporate tax and VAT filing both have deadlines and they don't always align, which trips up plenty of owners who think they can batch everything together.

If Consaya is handling your numbers, the simplified return is just another form the software flags and pre-fills when you're eligible. Your books stay filing-ready all year, so when the deadline hits, you're not scraping together receipts and bank statements in a panic.

Register through UAEPass — that's non-negotiable now. The FTA doesn't accept registrations any other way.

Source: https://tax.gov.ae/en/media.centre/events/ct.small.business.relief.virtual.aspx