Industry
Cross-border flows, related-party pricing and free zone treatment.
Trading groups move goods and money across jurisdictions, often between related entities. Transfer pricing documentation and correct free zone treatment are central, not peripheral.
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Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from trading.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
Transfer pricing on related-party trade
Free zone and designated zone VAT treatment
Customs, import and export documentation
Working capital and inventory financing
Market context
Trading groups move goods and money across jurisdictions and frequently between related entities, which puts intra-group pricing at the centre of the tax position rather than at its edge. Free zone and designated zone treatment adds a further layer that has to be applied per transaction, not per entity.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- Transfer pricing on related-party trade
- Pricing set on a documented basis and supported by benchmarking.
- Free zone and designated zone VAT
- Treatment applied correctly by transaction type and movement.
- Working capital and inventory financing
- Financing structured around the actual cash conversion cycle.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Tax
UAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
Corporate Services
Entity set-up and ongoing corporate compliance in the UAE.
Accounting & Finance
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Audit & Assurance
Independent assurance that stakeholders and regulators accept.
Transactions
Diligence, valuation and deal support from signing to integration.
Where we get the call
Situations we are brought into.
These describe work we are engaged to do. Named engagement notes publish only where a client has approved them.
Group entities trade with each other at prices set years ago on a basis nobody wrote down.
Designated zone treatment has been applied at entity level rather than per movement.
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Next step
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