RAKEZ Office & Flexi-Desk

The premises ladder

Entry files at RAKEZ live happily on the flexi-desk tier; the upgrade moments are visa quota exhaustion, a bank asking for stronger substance, or a team that actually needs chairs. Buy premises when one of those three arrives — not before.

Our quotations price the desk tier by default and show the office upgrade as a labelled option, so premises never ambush the budget.

What next November costs

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

GoldenKey quotations show year one and year two on the same page — the comparison that actually decides which jurisdiction was cheap.

Demand context

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

Documents: the working checklist

Documentation for RAKEZ is deliberately light at the entry tier — the list below covers the standard file, with the variable items depending on your structure.

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

Getting banked, properly

Founders shortlist zones on price and then lose a month at the bank. Avoid that sequence. Every UAE bank keeps a quiet appetite matrix — zone by activity by nationality. The professional move is matching your profile to a bank currently approving it, then building one strong KYC pack instead of three weak applications.

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

Run this list first

Before any money moves, walk this list:

Tax: the two-minute brief

As a free zone entity, a RAKEZ company can hold the 0% Corporate Tax rate on qualifying income as a QFZP — provided substance, audited accounts and de-minimis conditions hold; otherwise the standard 9% applies above AED 375,000 of profit. Registration with the FTA is mandatory regardless of profit level, and the late-registration penalty is a flat AED 10,000.

We pair every formation with a tax onboarding: registrations done, books structured to IFRS basis, deadlines diarised.

Advisor’s note

“Clients ask what the authority wants from RAKEZ. The better question is what the bank wants — we shape the file for both readers at once.”

— GoldenKey advisory desk, Ajman Free Zone