SOURCE:http://www.livingindubai.org/dubai-taxation/

• Dubai is a tax free country but there are some incidents when it is required of you to pay some form of taxes.
• As mentioned, the UAE Federal Government does not levy tax on the wealth of individuals but collect fees from car registration, road toll and Emirates ID cards
• If you a emigrate and is earning an income, you will be subject to tax.

• At 2 October 2017 refunds of R62.1bn were pay to taxpayers at which R49.5 bn is Vat refunds and R12.3 bn is for personal income tax returns
•  Since this date only 2.7 million taxpayers submitted their returns in this tax season which opened in July
• Because of the above mention and the fact that taxpayers are not setting there debt with revenue collections agencies within the stipulated deadline, SARS will worsen criminal proceedings from October
• This ruling is not limited to the current year but also to previously non- compliance years

Source: Fin 24; Economy; SARS coughs up more than R62.1 bn in refunds

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