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Monthly Tax insights and updates – November 2022
December 8, 2022
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The November edition of HLB HAMT’s Monthly Tax Insights is jam-packed with updated information about tax-related matters in the UAE and the GCC region.
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Monthly Tax insights and updates – October 2022
November 9, 2022
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Discover HLB HAMT’s monthly insights and updates across tax-related matters that will help you stay current on developments. The information provided will help you see opportunities and make assertive, strong decisions.
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Monthly Tax insights and updates – September 2022
Insights & Updates September 2022
October 4, 2022
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You can read the most latest news developments affecting tax-related issues in the United Arab Emirates and around the Middle East Region in our edition of HLB HAMT’s Monthly Tax Insights.
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Recognizing Your Risk Indemnity for Professional Services
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In recent years, professional risks have significantly evolved with the regulatory environment. Professional indemnity insurance, also known as professional liability insurance or PI insurance, pays for your defence’s legal fees as well as any penalties or charges that may be imposed if it is claimed that you gave your client poor advice, services, or designs that resulted in financial loss.
A legal firm or other service providers may benefit from professional indemnity insurance to protect them from lawsuits and pay the expense of defending themselves against allegations of mistakes, malpractice, or carelessness on their part. Broadly speaking, professional indemnity insurance must be kept in force for the full duration of any limitation term, which in the UAE is 10 years.
What steps may businesses take to Mitigate Risk?
Let’s delve into some of the few steps to reduce your Professional Indemnity risk, including:
- Preventing copyright violations
It’s ideal to produce your own intellectual property rather than copying anything from the web, therefore be cautious not to get into trouble for doing so. - Data encryption is a must
Watch out for employees who bring their personal gadgets to work. When users are able to access to the Wi-Fi, laptops, phones, and tablets might carry malware that infect your network. - Safeguarding against data theft
All antivirus and anti-malware software should be updated. - Employee misconduct
- You run the risk of losing client data and information or misusing intellectual property, endangering both your customers and your own firm.
- Any information or work data on workplace computers and other devices should be treated with extreme caution. Tell your personnel to be cautious about leaving their laptops in public areas.
- Ensure that employees are informed of the risks associated with downloading applications from the internet. Avoid allowing staff to install new software on workplace computers.
Bottom Line
Professional Indemnity presently carries substantial and sophisticated risks, and has been dubbed “the products liability of the service industry.” Businesses that consider their vulnerabilities as being product or industry focused might be amazed to learn that outsourcing, internet sales, and intellectual property difficulties might position them to professional risks.
It takes a lot of professional inspection to detect and estimate your risks. To obtain maximum protection, firms should assess their risk from a number of perspectives and work with lawyers, economists, and actuaries.
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Cloud Native Apps: The New Avatars to Gain Momentum
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The emergence of cloud computing altered business practices by enabling greater access to apps hosted in the cloud at an affordable cost and with quicker usability. The new avatars, cloud-native apps, dramatically change how applications are created, hosted, and accessible while providing flexibility and increasing efficiencies.
Most businesses are making the switch to cloud-native technology as they see its enormous possibilities. A company’s approach to design, development and use must evolve to compete successfully in fast-moving, application-managed marketplaces.
What exactly are cloud-native apps?
Applications built for the cloud are made up of a number of tiny, unrelated, and loosely linked services. They are made to provide well-known commercial benefits, such as the capacity to quickly integrate customer feedback into ongoing development.
The process of generating and upgrading applications fast while enhancing the quality and lowering risk is known as cloud-native development. It is a method for accelerating the creation of new apps, the optimization of current ones, and the integration of all of them. Delivering apps that customers demand at a rate that businesses require is its objective.
Let’s examine some of these applications’ key features:
- Microservices: They divide a program into several separate services or modules. Each of these services makes use of its own data and promotes a specific corporate objective.
- DevOps: A mindset, automated, and infrastructure design strategy called DevOps aims to enhance corporate reputation and efficiency.
- Container-based: A sort of software called a container separates an application conceptually so that it can operate independently of physical resources.
- Application programming interfaces (APIs): Microservices and containers are connected through APIs, which also simplify safety and service.
Applications that are cloud-native have become more popular recently and are expected to dominate software development in the coming years. If your organization is in the finance, medical, or telecommunications industries, such apps can be the core of your business model. So, the evolving business necessitates the creation and delivery of new apps more quickly for consumers who have grown to demand a better standard.
Businesses use cloud technology to improve the flexibility and accessibility of their apps. In order to offer a uniform development and automated management experience across private, public, and hybrid clouds, an app must be “cloud-native.”
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Monthly Tax insights and updates – August 2022
September 9, 2022
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You can read the most latest news developments affecting tax-related issues in the United Arab Emirates and around the Middle East Region in our August 2022 edition of HLB HAMT’s Monthly Tax Insights.
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Monthly Tax insights and updates – July 2022
August 9, 2022
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You can read the most latest news developments affecting tax-related issues in the United Arab Emirates and around the Middle East Region in our July 2022 edition of HLB HAMT’s Monthly Tax Insights.
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The UAE job market is projected to keep improving in 2022
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Despite the difficulties we had owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UAE experienced a substantial resurgence thanks to a strong reaction from the government and the medical missionaries. The UAE is a rapidly developing economy, with a wide range of business segments and customer preferences that influence the economy and employment market.
Pay scales in Dubai and other emirates are anticipated to rise
As business morale and recruiting volume resume at normal levels in 2022, the employment market in the UAE is expected to continue improving. Salary increases between 3% and 5% were anticipated at the start of the year. Also, this depends on the industry, and bonuses were expected to return.
According to the Hays 2022 Salary Guide, approximately 73% of UAE employers anticipated salary increases of up to 5% compared to 37% in 2021.
Hiring for in-demand job skills will assist future business growth if given top priority by employers. The skilled workforce is still growing, though, sparking a little talent competition.
Perks provided to job hunters in 2022
To entice the best personnel, businesses must provide a competitive benefits package. Employers in the UAE frequently provide family permits, flexibility and remote working arrangements, plane tickets, and educational allowances to job candidates. Since the pandemic, jobseekers’ expectations have altered, and they now have higher expectations than just salary and incentives.
Sustainable industries in 2022
Technology, human resources, and medical services will be the most stable industries this year, while the need for talented individuals in project management, digital, and data will increase. However, with a general revival in all UAE markets, there is still a high need for people in some of the other industries, such as consulting, advice and recruiting, digital, technology, and artificial intelligence.
The increase in business and tourist counts demonstrates the UAE’s appeal as a travel destination and hub. However, at present, job seekers or employees must contrast and consider the salary and career advancement opportunities that a new job or sector gives them with those of their current organization.
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UAE Residents can soon trade Crypto-currencies in Dirhams
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The UAE is quickly evolving and becoming a significant crypto-currency center. The trading of crypto-currencies using Emirati currency may soon be possible for residents in the United Arab Emirates. Kraken (One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world), has partnered with the National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah to allow investors in the UAE to transact in virtual assets using their local bank accounts.
By having a local Emirati bank account and dirhams, residents of the UAE will be able to trade virtual assets. Residents in the Gulf state can use this step to avoid depending on overseas bank accounts and the associated foreign exchange fees.
As the nation has worked to expand the virtual asset industry through laws and reforms, the UAE has drawn some of the greatest digital asset businesses globally, including Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.
Dubai Virtual Asset Regulation
Dubai enacted the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulation Law in March, which aspires to establish an efficient legal framework to safeguard investors, provide a high standard for managing the virtual asset market and promote sustainable business expansion in the emirate.
Dubai established the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority as a stand-alone organization to control the industry across the emirate, excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre but including special development zones and free zones.
The UAE sees a dramatic transformation as the country’s priorities move from oil to blockchain breakthroughs like crypto-currency. The UAE is now ranked as the third-largest country in the world for cryptocurrency adoption, and it appears that position will climb in the foreseeable future.
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Savings Scheme for Expats in Dubai Public Sector
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Dubai has decided to implement end-of-service savings scheme for expatriates working in government departments. Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) will be in charge of supervising the scheme and even though the plan targets expats in government sector in the initial stage, it is expected to expand gradually.
The major objective of the scheme is to attract and retain employees by offering an integrated system that provides several options for savings. Expats working in Dubai’s public sector will be added to the novel scheme by default. The employers are supposed to contribute the total end-of-service gratuity to the savings plan from the date of joining of the employee, excluding the financial dues for previous years of service.
The savings scheme contribution percentage will be equal to the end-of-service benefits due to the foreign employee in the Dubai public sector. The rate of return will depend on various factors that include the investment made by the staff, the method via it is distributed across available investment portfolios and the risks related with it.
Employees are also provided with the option to make their own contributions to the savings scheme, with the authority to withdraw it at any time. The employee participation in the savings scheme will cease following the end of their service.
The UAE is a country that provides a promising platform for employees from across the world and the country comes up with various schemes frequently to attract ex-pats and give them a sense of security. The scheme will help in boosting the city’s position as a international financial hub, which is seen as an incubator for expertise and competencies.
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