Where you stand
A read on your business before any conversation. Twelve questions, about four minutes. The read is shown in full on screen, without an email, a login or a payment.
What the read contains
Where you stand. Setup, operations, finance and tech, each judged three ways: covered, needs building, yours to do. Every "yours to do" item carries the method: the steps, and what done looks like.
What is due. The obligations that apply to your business, each with its next date, the cost in AED of missing it, the source, and the date we last verified the rule. Where your zone or activity isn't covered yet, the read says so rather than guess.
What to do first. Three items, ordered by the cost of delay: the obligations with penalties first, then visibility, then structure.
One honest line. One of three: you don't need an executive layer yet; one defined piece of work would cover this; or this is what an executive layer takes off your desk. Never a score, a percentage or a grade.
A worked example
A fictional contracting company in the UAE. Three years trading. Fourteen people. Revenue between AED 1 million and 5 million. The owner holds the finance; records live on his phone and in his inbox; clients arrive by referral.
Setup — Covered: mainland licence, current. Yours to do: the licence renewal register, method attached.
Operations — Needs building: written process for site handover and variations. Yours to do: the weekly review format, method attached.
Finance — Needs building: monthly management accounts and a cash-flow view; the corporate-tax position. Yours to do: nothing in this row this quarter.
Tech — Yours to do: move the records off the phone into a shared drive with a structure, method attached. Needs building: nothing yet.
What is due: VAT return, quarterly, next date shown; corporate-tax registration, status shown; WPS, monthly. Each with its penalty, source and verified date.
What to do first: the corporate-tax position; the monthly numbers; the handover process.
The honest line: This is what an executive layer takes off your desk. And beneath it, the three actions: Send me this and the files · Book the thirty-minute call · Not now.
After the read
Send me this and the files. The read, and Bidaya's own method files for your "yours to do" items, the templates we build for clients. Only the files your read called for. And a note when a rule on your list changes. By email or WhatsApp, with your consent, and nothing else.
Book the thirty-minute call. The call already knows what you told the read.
Not now. Nothing is stored.
Questions the read is built to answer
What obligations does a mainland LLC have in its first year?
Corporate-tax registration with the Federal Tax Authority; VAT registration once taxable supplies pass the mandatory threshold of AED 375,000; payroll through the Wage Protection System for employees; licence renewal on its anniversary; and, by activity, the approvals the regulator of that activity requires. The read dates each one for your company.
When does a UAE company have to register for corporate tax?
Every taxable person registers with the FTA, within the deadline set for its licence date; a late registration carries a fixed penalty. The read shows your date and the penalty.
When does VAT registration become mandatory?
When taxable supplies and imports in the last twelve months, or expected in the next thirty days, pass AED 375,000. Voluntary registration is available from AED 187,500.
What does missing a filing cost?
A fixed administrative penalty for late registration, and penalties that grow with delay for late returns and late payment. The read states the current figure for each item that applies to you, with its source.
Does the read cover free zones?
The zones in the register, yes, with the zone's own rules. Where a zone isn't covered yet, the read says so and invents nothing.
Is the read advice?
It is a dated summary from public sources, applied to what you told us. It is not advice on your specific position. If a date matters, confirm it, and we'll help you do that.