Tax & Structuring
If you're hunting for tax free countries where you can legally pay no income tax, the real list is shorter than most blogs admit. Only a handful of jurisdictions levy 0% personal income tax on residents, and the benefit hinges on one rule almost everyone misses: you have
Tax & Structuring
A family investment company (FIC) is a private limited company a family uses to hold and grow investments, with the family owning the shares and often lending in the capital. Parents keep a voting class and a director seat for control, while value passes to the children's share
Tax & Structuring
The UAE charges 9% corporate tax on profits above AED 375,000 and nothing below it, plus 0% personal income tax, against the UK's 25% main corporate rate and personal income tax up to 45%. The gap is real for any business below EUR 750 million in group
Tax & Structuring
An asset-protection trust is a legal structure that places your wealth beyond the easy reach of a future creditor, by handing legal ownership to a trustee or foundation council in a jurisdiction with creditor-friendly statutes. It is a litigation firewall, not a magic wand. Used honestly, it deters
Tax & Structuring
An offshore trust is a trust whose trustees and assets sit outside the UK, long used by non-domiciled individuals to keep foreign income, gains and non-UK assets outside the UK tax net. From 6 April 2025 the rules that made these trusts work changed sharply. The old "
Tax & Structuring
From 6 April 2025 the UK stopped using domicile to decide who pays inheritance tax on worldwide assets. It now uses residence: if you have been UK resident in at least 10 of the previous 20 tax years, your entire estate sits in the UK IHT net, and leaving the
Tax & Structuring
On 6 April 2025 the UK abolished the remittance-basis non-dom regime and removed domicile as the connecting factor for tax (GOV.UK, 2026). Your tax now follows residence, not domicile. So the live question for UK high-net-worth individuals and former non-doms is no longer "
Tax & Structuring
Moving abroad does not end your UK tax residency. Whether you count as UK resident for any tax year is decided by the Statutory Residence Test (SRT), and the SRT turns on counting days and cutting ties, not on which country holds your passport or your post. Getting this wrong
Tax & Structuring
Moving to Dubai for tax residency can drop your personal income tax rate to zero, and that part is genuinely true. The UAE charges no personal income tax at all. But the saving only becomes real once you do the legal work behind it: leaving your old tax system cleanly,
Tax & Structuring
Corporate tax registration deadline by licence-issuance month For resident juridical persons incorporated before 1 March 2024, the registration deadline runs from 31 May 2024 for January and February licences through to 31 December 2024 for December licences. Registration deadline by licence-issuance month Resident juridical persons incorporated before 1
Tax & Structuring
UAE Small Business Relief eligibility decision flow A five-step flow: resident, revenue 3 million dirhams or less now and in all prior periods, not in a multinational group above 3.15 billion dirhams, not a Qualifying Free Zone Person, and period ending on or before 31 December 2026. Passing
Tax & Structuring
Qualifying Free Zone Person conditions: all must be true A checklist of the conditions a Free Zone company must meet at the same time to keep its 0 percent Qualifying Free Zone Person status; failing any one drops the whole entity to 9 percent. Qualifying Free Zone Person: every box