Category: UAE Life & Economy

18 Jun

  Expo 2020 Dubai is the first Expo event held in the Middle East, Africa, or South Asia. It is being treated locally…

13 Jun

  In 2015 I wrote an article detailing the differences between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. At the time the main differences between the…

15 Apr

Much like Christmas in the West, Ramadan is the Middle East retail industry’s busiest time of year and 2018 will be no…

09 Apr

Ramadan is a holy month in the Islamic calendar…

03 Apr

The United Arab Emirates has a population of less than 10m people with an estimated 88% of that figure attributed to expats/migrants.…

19 Feb

Our role in the UAE is to help British companies gain a foothold in the Middle East market. But there is another…

05 Feb

 Part one of this series can be found here There are a number of legal jurisdictions in the UAE and…

29 Jan

The United Arab Emirates is a country of seven emirates. An emirate could be compared to a county in the UK, operating…

14 Jan

Since the introduction of VAT, we have had may queries from British companies in relation to the effect of VAT on businesses…

10 Jan

It is common in most countries where value-added tax (VAT) has been implemented that the tax paid on the majority of business…