Lesson 9 — Reading the Corporate Tax report
Open Accounting → Reporting → UAE Corporate Tax Report.
The header carries the company, the CT registration number, the financial year, and — usefully — the filing deadline, computed for you. On the demo it reads FY 2026 · Filing due 2027-09-30: nine months after a 31 December 2026 year end, exactly as Article 53(1) requires.
The demo header also reads "No CT Registration Number set for this company". That is the report telling you about a real configuration gap rather than printing a blank and hoping you notice. Record the CT registration number in the identifier registry and it appears here.
Four KPI tiles, for the demo's FY 2026:
| KPI | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Taxable income | AED −99,445.00 | The company is in a loss position for the year to date |
| CT payable | AED 0.00 | No tax is due on a loss |
| Effective rate | 0% | Shown as 0% because no tax is due; a rate on a loss has no meaningful value |
| Threshold headroom | AED 474,445.00 | How much taxable income could still be earned before crossing AED 375,000 |
Threshold headroom is the tile to watch during the year. It answers "how close am I to paying tax at 9%?" without you doing the subtraction. Here it is 375,000 plus the 99,445 loss to be absorbed first.
One caveat from Lesson 2: the AED 375,000 band belongs to the taxable person, not to the company record. If you sit in a tax group or hold several licences under one taxable person, read this tile as an entity-level indicator and confirm the group position separately.
A four-bar chart shows the shape of the bridge — accounting income, add-backs, deductions, taxable income — before you read a single line.
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