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Digital Assets, Crypto & IP
The UAE’s newest and hardest questions: the VAT and corporate-tax treatment of virtual assets, and the IP and intangibles that drive transfer pricing. We tax digital assets; we do not trade them.
- VAT: transfer and conversion of virtual assets exempt (Cabinet Decision 100/2024, retroactive to 1 Jan 2018) — with the input-tax-recovery consequence modelled
- Corporate tax on virtual-asset businesses (trading, mining, exchange): 0% on the first AED 375,000 of Taxable Income and 9% above, with business-versus-investment characterisation flagged where the FTA has published no bright-line test
- IP & intangibles: DEMPE analysis across transfer pricing and the QFZP qualifying-income test
- CARF and VARA / ADGM / DIFC obligations flagged as watch-items in every virtual-asset assessment