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Smart Zone has supported founders, SMEs and growing businesses with UAE company formation and business setup services for more than 16 years.
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To open a corporate bank account for your business, you are required to have an investor visa. For a personal bank account, a residence visa/employment visa is required
Some businesses in the UAE cannot be set up simply with typical business licenses. Due to the nature of their activities, they require special approvals. If your business activity is under the realm of Education, you require special approvals from the Ministry of Education or the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA). If your business is related to engineering or construction, you require approval from the Municipality. If your business has anything to do with telecommunication or networks, Etisalat will be the authority to issue an approval.
You can trade, import, and export anything under a general trading license, also known as a commercial license. Gold and oil, however, need further approvals, which is why the same rules don’t apply to these items.
You are mainly required to have the documents of your parent company, or holding company attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to kickstart your branch setup process. After that, it’s important you reserve a trade name, get approval from the Ministry of Economy and the Department of Economic Development (DED). Once that’s done, you need to lease an office space, and you can start your operations in the country.
While there’s no saying which activity or industry will end up doing well, here are some that have already been established as highly recommended industries to carry out business in;
There are four types of business licenses that can be opted for if you’re looking to set up a business in the UAE. These are:
Your license will take as little as one week to be renewed*, provided all the necessary documents are submitted to us in the given timelines. These documents are:
On paper, it is required for you to have an office address in order to have a business license issued for your business. However, you don’t necessarily require an office space to apply for a business license. Depending on your business activity, if you don’t require an office to carry out your day-to-day activities, you can obtain a virtual office license that will serve as an address you can use on your business license, which can also be the space in which you can have business meetings, if required, and can use it as a mailing address too.
To liquidate your company, you are first required to submit all documents such as the original registration certificates, shareholder’s resolutions, trade license, and obtain clearance certificates, MoA, Power of Attorney, among many other documents to the concerned authorities. After which you are required to put up an announcement in a newspaper and wait for a period of 45 days*. Post this period, your company liquidation process will be complete.
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