Dubai DED · ADGMIndependent verification

Know where you stand.

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Your provider says everything is filed. Qanun checks the acknowledgments and shows you which claims actually have proof.

Free · 10 minutes · No documents needed · Every report reviewed by a licensed UAE tax agent

Trade licence 1157xx · DEDAED 130,000 max
VAT registrationVERIFIED
ESR notificationCLAIMED
UBO registerMISSING

Expat founders use Qanun to verify what their providers claim about

  • Corporate taxUP TO AED 10,000 LATE REG.
  • UBO registersUP TO AED 100,000
  • ESR notificationsUP TO AED 20,000
  • VAT filingsPUBLICLY VERIFIABLE
  • Trade licence renewals

Figures are maximum statutory exposure if unremedied. Sources: Federal Decree-Law 47/2022; Cabinet Resolutions 57/2020 and 58/2020. See how a check works.

What a check finds

MISSING

Corporate tax registration

Provider said "done in 2024". No TRN on file, no FTA certificate anyone can produce.

Decree-Law 47/2022, Art. 51 · up to AED 10,000

Specimen profile · DED mainland · 6 staff

CLAIMED

ESR notification

Filed, according to the accountant. No portal acknowledgment. Also: ESR was abolished for years after 2022, and it is still on the invoice.

Cabinet Res. 57/2020; Cabinet Decision 98/2024

Specimen profile · DED mainland · 2 staff

VERIFIED

VAT registration

TRN confirmed on the FTA public register. Evidence attached to the report, dated.

Decree-Law 8/2017 · AED 0

Specimen profile · ADGM · 1 staff

250,000 new companies were registered in the UAE in 2025 alone, most of them founded by expats.

Corporate tax arrived in 2023. The e-invoicing mandate lands in 2026 to 2027. Obligations are compounding faster than founders' ability to verify them.

How a Truth Report gets made

Qanun is not a dashboard you babysit. You enter the flow once, and the watchdog stays on. Here is the whole journey, from first answer to signed report.

Ten minutes. Everything you have, nothing you don't.

Jurisdiction, activity, financial year, and the documents already sitting in your inbox: trade licence, TRN certificate, filing acknowledgments. Upload what exists. Skip what doesn't. A missing document becomes the first line of your report.

Intake · step 2 of 4
Dubai DED (mainland)
ADGM
Somewhere else (waitlist)

Every claim meets its evidence. Or doesn't.

The obligation engine maps what applies to your specific company and grades each item: Verified against an acknowledgment or a permitted public register, Claimed when your provider says so but cannot show the artifact, Missing when nobody has touched it.

ObligationStatusAED max
Corporate tax registrationDecree-Law 47/2022, Art. 51MISSING10,000
ESR notificationCabinet Res. 57/2020CLAIMED20,000
UBO registerCabinet Res. 58/2020CLAIMED100,000
VAT registrationDecree-Law 8/2017VERIFIED0
Maximum exposure if unremedied130,000

A document built to be sent, not filed away.

Leads with the number that matters, then every finding with its statute. Send it to your provider with one sentence: "please produce the acknowledgments." Reviewed by a licensed UAE tax agent, signed, bilingual, with a seal that closes only when everything is proven.

COMPLIANCE TRUTH REPORT · QR-2026-0001 · SPECIMEN
Al Noor Trading FZ-LLC
تقرير الحقيقة · قانون
Reviewed · licensed UAE tax agent14 obligations · 9 verified · 3 claimed · 2 missing

Then it goes quiet. That's the product.

After the report, Qanun keeps a calendar of every obligation and speaks only when it matters: T-30, T-7, T-1 before each deadline, and immediately if a claim stops being provable. Free, after the report.

From: Qanun WatchdogT-28
VAT return due in 28 days. You are currently clear.

Nothing is wrong. This is what being watched feels like: quiet. We alert again at T-7 and T-1, and the moment anything in your file stops being provable.

Not sure what applies to your company? Run the check.

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What the report looks like

Sample PDF available with the first cohort
Compliance Truth Report
Cover
Our understanding
Our understanding
Findings
Findings, statute by statute
Timeline
Next twelve months
What stays with you
What stays with you

When a provider fails

"They always promised me everything was covered. It never was."

The penalty letter arrives first. Then you learn the returns were never filed, the person responsible has left, and nobody can produce an acknowledgment. Qanun's founder consulted on compliance for two of the UAE's largest banks, then paid fines worth two years of revenue this way. Almost every founder in the UAE is an expat, building in a country whose rules are not their own.

لا ادّعاء، بل إثبات

Acknowledgments on file, dated. Every filing your provider claims, with the proof or the gap.

A deadline calendar that is yours. It does not leave when the accountant does.

A report the next provider can read. Or the regulator. One sentence to send: "please produce the acknowledgment."

If we get something wrong, every affected report is re-issued free.

One report. Full truth.

No subscription required to learn where you stand. The watchdog keeps guarding your deadlines after the report lands, free.

Compliance Truth ReportFIRST COHORT · 20 COMPANIES
AED 499one-time
  • Complete obligation audit for Dubai DED and ADGM companies
  • Every item graded Verified, Claimed or Missing
  • Exposure in dirhams for each statute, stated as the maximum if unremedied
  • Human review by a licensed UAE tax agent
  • A signed, bilingual PDF built to be sent to your provider
  • Deadline watchdog at T-30, T-7 and T-1, free

Not included

So nobody is surprised later.

  • Remediation or filing on your behalf
  • Legal or tax advice on what to do about a gap
  • Company formation, visas or banking (we can introduce a licensed partner; see FAQ)
  • Jurisdictions outside Dubai DED and ADGM (waitlisted, any payment refunded)

The free check takes ten minutes and shows what might be missing, from your own answers. The Truth Report proves what actually is, against evidence. Every report is verified by hand, so the first cohort is capped at 20 companies. An AED 99 deposit holds your place: refundable until delivery, and it counts toward the AED 499.

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[Reviewing tax agent]

Built by someone who paid the fine

Qanun exists because its founder lived the failure it fixes. He consulted on compliance for two of the UAE's largest banks, then watched his own provider silently skip filings while assuring him all was well. The fines arrived years later.

Every report is reviewed by a licensed UAE tax agent before it is signed. Qanun launched for Dubai DED and ADGM, the two jurisdictions where that story happened. More follow when the first hundred companies are proven.

Why Qanun

Independent of your provider

We do not file, so we have no reason to say it was filed.

Evidence or nothing

An item is Verified only against an acknowledgment or a permitted public register. Never against a promise. Self-reported answers are never marked Verified.

The ceiling, with the remedy next to it

Exposure is stated as the statutory maximum if unremedied, and every figure sits beside the path that closes it.

Your documents, handled like evidence

Encrypted in transit and at rest, seen only by your reviewer, retained twelve months, deleted on request.

The data commitments, stated plainly

A company selling documentary truth dies on its first data failure. So these ship in version one, in the product and in every report.

ENCRYPTIONAll documents encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). Access limited to your reviewer.
RETENTIONTwelve months, then deleted. Deletion on request honoured within 7 days, confirmed in writing.
PDPLHandled under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021): consent-based, minimised, documented.
HUMAN REVIEWEvery report is reviewed by a licensed UAE tax agent before delivery. Errors trigger a free re-issue of every affected report.
WHAT WE ARE NOTQanun is a technology platform, not a licensed tax or legal advisory. Exposure figures are maximum statutory amounts if unremedied, per the cited statutes.

Fair questions

01Is this legal or tax advice?

No. Qanun is a technology platform that grades your compliance state against evidence and cites the governing statute for every figure. What to do about a gap is between you, your provider, and, where needed, a licensed advisor. Our report just ends the guessing.

02How long does the check take?

About ten minutes, from memory, with no documents. "Not sure" is a fine answer; unsure is exactly what we measure. Your obligation map is emailed to you the moment you finish.

03Is the free check actually free, or is there a catch?

Free, no card, no signup beyond an email to send the map to. The catch, if you want one: the check grades your own answers, so it can never mark anything Verified. Verification against evidence is the paid report, and we say so on every screen.

04How can you verify what government portals don't expose?

Honestly: not everything is publicly checkable, and we refuse to pretend otherwise. Some items verify against public registers (like your TRN at the FTA). Most verify against acknowledgment artifacts your provider should hold. What cannot be evidenced is marked Claimed, and that marking is the product: it is the difference between "trust me" and "show me".

05What if my provider has actually done everything?

Then you get the best possible outcome: a signed report saying so, a seal that closes, and a watchdog on every future deadline. Around a third of specimen profiles we modelled had at least one unproven claim. The others walked away with signed proof that their setup is clean.

06Which companies can use this today?

Mainland Dubai (DED) and ADGM companies now. Other free zones join as demand proves out. If your jurisdiction is not covered yet, you are waitlisted and any payment is refunded in full, immediately.

07Why a deposit instead of just paying the AED 499?

Because every report is verified by hand and reviewed by a licensed tax agent, we only take 20 companies in the first cohort. The AED 99 deposit holds your place in that queue. It counts toward the AED 499, and it refunds in full any time before your report is delivered, no questions asked.

08I don't have a UAE company yet. Can you help me set one up?

Not directly. Qanun does not provide formation, immigration or banking services. If you are setting up, we introduce you to a licensed corporate service provider and we are paid a referral fee by them; your fees are the same either way. Qanun then stays on as the independent check after you launch. We never refer the remediation of a gap our own report found to a partner that pays us. Start the setup intake.

09What happens to my documents?

Encrypted in transit and at rest, seen only by your reviewer, retained twelve months, deleted on request within 7 days with written confirmation. The full commitment is printed in every report.