RAKEZ Documents & Requirements

What the file actually contains

The file for RAKEZ is assembled once and reused everywhere — licence, immigration, then bank.

Corporate shareholders add attested certificates of incorporation, memoranda and board resolutions — the attestation chain is the schedule-setter, so we start it first.

Advisor’s note

“Treat RAKEZ as a sequence, not a purchase: decision, documents, licence, bank, calendar. Skip a step and the sequence collects anyway.”

— GoldenKey advisory desk, Ajman Free Zone

The economics around this choice

Specialisation in industrial, trading, services pays off operationally: the authority's reviewers know these activities, the neighbouring tenants are your ecosystem, and banks have an existing book of similar files

Getting banked, properly

The licence is step one; the account is the milestone. Here is the banking read. Compliance teams underwrite three things: the credibility of your activity wording, the substance behind the address, and the story your expected flows tell. RAKEZ's licences clear onboarding routinely when those three are prepared in advance.

GoldenKey pre-screens bank appetite before licensing, which is why our account success rate sits at 98% across the client base.

Year two, priced honestly

With entry licensing from AED 6,010, renewal is re-quoted fresh each year — WhatsApp GoldenKey for the current written renewal figure. The trap is not the amount but the attention: renewals cluster (licence, card, visas, insurance, tenancy) and each has its own counter. Our clients hand us the calendar once and never meet a fine.

Prepaying 2–3 years earns 10–20% discounts at several authorities — usually correct for stable holding structures.

Before you commit

Before any money moves, walk this list:

Corporate Tax & VAT here

As a free zone entity, a RAKEZ company can hold the 0% Corporate Tax rate on qualifying income as a QFZP. Plan three dates from day one: Corporate Tax registration (keyed to licence issue), the VAT threshold check (monthly, not annually), and the first return nine months after year-end. Every penalty in this system is administrative, automatic — and avoidable with a calendar.

Ask for the QFZP evidence checklist if you intend to defend the 0% — assumption is not a filing position.

What goes wrong (and how not to)

The expensive mistakes here are boringly predictable. The ones we repair most: