Small business relief and your growth plan
Three positions a business can take on the AED 3 million threshold, and what each one costs over the window to 2029. It treats the relief as a planning question rather than a filing one.
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Eight of the thirteen pages. Turn them the way you would a printed guide.
What the guide covers
Thirteen pages, laid out the same way as every other guide in the series.
Three positions a business can take
Stay under, cross deliberately, or grow through it, with the cost of each set out.
Eight actions
Numbered and in order, from checking your own eligibility to deciding what the window is for.
A worked example
A Dubai mainland fit-out contractor, nine staff, revenue of AED 2.6 million, electing the relief since 2023.
A one-page three-year window plan
What the window is being used to build, and the point at which the position changes.
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Where to go next.
Set up in Dubai: free zone or mainland
Five questions that settle the choice, and why the licence is rarely the point.
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Set a marketing budget
Three ways to reach the number, and the rule that decides when the money moves.
Read the guideWhere this fits. The threshold shapes how a business plans its first years here, which is part of UAE market entry. Growing through it deliberately is growth and performance work.
The article behind this guide. UAE small business relief now runs to 2029.
Sources. Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026, extending small business relief to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029, with the AED 3 million threshold unchanged. The threshold, the election mechanics and the exclusions come from the published text of Ministerial Decision No. 73 of 2023, made under Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022. This is a marketing and planning guide, not tax advice. Listed in full on page 10 of the guide.
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