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Hello Everybody out there,

I would really like to know the legal requirements for setting up a business online in Dubai,UAE. Just a website thats it, no shop! If anybody has any idea, its welcome to be posted below. Because im looking for information for like months now with no progress.!!

I'm making a bit of a guess here but if you sell stuff online, then the legal requirements probably depend on where the items are sold from or shipped from, and where payment is made.

For example if you live in the UAE, but you sell products from overseas and ship to a foreign address directly, and payment is made to a paypal account or similar with transfer to a bank account overseas, then UAE business set up rules probably don't apply. Tax on your income is moot since there's no income tax in the UAE.

But if products come through the UAE and/or payment is made to a UAE address or bank, then I expect you'd need a UAE trade licence. Either set up in a free trade zone (but then you can't sell products in the UAE), or go to a Chamber of Commerce or Economic Department to get information about setting up with a local partner.

Actually, you can start your online business without the necessary documents needed.

As far as I understand you want to target UAE for your business and you do not want any shop or showroom there. In this situation, you can target Dubai without any legal issues.

Thats correct singhabhishek...

what if your website does not sell any products, just online services and payment must be made through your UAE bank? Will it have any legal issues?

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Hi - I wanted to know if there are any legal requirements for setting up an online website that discuss women's issues - like an online lifestyle magazine for women. There wont be any selling done through this website - we're not selling anything. Just articles and discussions. We will have ads by different companies which are UAE based and other countries. Are there any legal requirements for setting up such a website ? Any help would be greatly appreciated !

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if u put free ads, no legal paper is required.

But if you collect a fee for the ads than u are doing business in UAE. collecting money from local or internationally from clients... does not matter

hi ....i want to start an online business (a website ) where i promote products from clickbank/ebay/amazon etc..to overseas is there any legal requirements that i should follow ???also i will be receiving money through paypal ....so to withdraw the money from any uae bank?? again is there any legal requirements that i should follow...

What if the operation of website is not in UAE and the products are coming from a different country. If the products are sold or shipped to UAE, does this website still needs permit to do this?

For example, If i buy from Amazon.com, will Amazon need a permit to ship the product to me in UAE?

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Blue1 , Hi, did you get the exact answer to your question above? I would like to know the answer as well because we are also thinking to put up an online based business. Your reply is highly appreciated. Thank you... All the best, Era Kates

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Please i would like to know the procedure to opening an Online Business in Dubai.

The nature of Business will be an e-commerceI website that will be used to promote the business and services of the UAE business owners as well as individuals.

Those that will use the service will enjoy it and make payments for any of the services they choose.

No goods will be shipped by or sold through the website. It will be purely online services only.

The plan is to cover all the UAE in the business, register the physical address in the free Zone or abroad, whichever one is better and to have an UAE business account for it or operate through a foreign account if that cana help.

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Hi there, We have our online e-commerce store in India. We sell products like t-shirts, laptop Skins and mobile Skins. As a part of our expansion process we want to expand in Dubai. So we will be collecting payments online. The products will be stocked in Dubai only and will be shipped out from there only using local couriers. Can someone please let us know what are the procedures to setup an online store and to collect online payments out there. And any permissions or license required?
Appreciate help. Thanks in advance.