Alo Tax is a partner-led advisory firm for groups with real Corporate Tax, Pillar Two and VAT exposure. Big-Four rigour, delivered by the people who do the thinking, without the layers.
Most UAE businesses end up with two kinds of adviser: accountants who know the numbers but treat tax as a year-end form, and tax specialists who know the law but have never closed a set of books, sat through an audit or looked at a deal from the inside.
We founded Alo Tax in Dubai in 2023 to close that gap. Our partners came to tax from the finance side, so we read your financials the way an auditor would and your contracts the way the FTA will.
Read our storyWhile we have packages for startups and SMEs, we focus on the more complex set-ups, as we believe we add high value there.
We don’t treat filing as a data-entry job. We build defensible positions for our clients and we advise them accordingly.
We offer our services through a mix of one-time services and retainers.
The UAE moved from no corporate tax to a full regime with a global minimum top-up in under three years. Most groups are still carrying positions that were never properly designed. We fix that.
The day-to-day VAT work every business needs, done by the same partners who advise on complex and non-standard transactions.
Advisory and structuring across groups, free-zone entities and connected persons, with the documentation to back every judgement.
Connected-person and related-party analysis under the arm’s length standard, with documentation that holds when the FTA asks for it.
The UAE’s Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax applies from financial years starting 1 January 2025. Move the slider to see whether a group is in scope.
Three practice areas, one standard: advice you can stand behind when the FTA asks.
The same sequence on every mandate, whether it is a one-off restructure or a standing retainer.
Business context, commercial drivers and where the money actually moves.
Tax and regulatory risk, and where exposure genuinely sits.
Defensible positions built to withstand scrutiny, not just to file.
Clear, audit-ready documentation and the people to defend it.
Every engagement is led by a partner, not handed to a junior team. One of us brings the technical depth, the other the commercial and operational discipline, and both answer for the outcome.
Over 17 years across tax advisory, financial reporting, audit and transaction support.
Reem advises multinational groups and regional businesses on UAE Corporate Tax, VAT, transfer pricing and Pillar Two readiness, with a strong focus on governance, risk and regulatory compliance.
Before founding Alo Tax she was Head of Group Financial Reporting at ALEC Engineering & Contracting, part of the ICD Group, leading IFRS implementation, M&A and board-level reporting, and spent a year seconded as Investor Relations Manager at a UAE-listed company. She began her career in audit and financial due diligence with PwC and Deloitte.
She also teaches tax. An instructor who advises in practice, and a practitioner who can explain the rule in plain language.
A 16-year track record building and running businesses across corporate management, industrial manufacturing, research consultancy and real estate.
Luai is the partner clients call when the question is commercial rather than technical, and the reason an engagement runs on time and on scope.
His background is on the operating side of business: launching companies, scaling their operations and taking complex projects from first plan to delivery, with a degree in Business Administration behind it.
At Alo Tax he leads the firm's strategy and operations and owns how each engagement runs, from scope and timelines to the client relationship, so the technical work lands in a form the business can act on.
Every release read by a partner within the week and reduced to one line you can act on. The full source is always linked.
Explains the VAT Law amendments in force from 1 January 2026, including the end of self-invoicing for reverse-charge supplies, a five-year limit on refunds of excess recoverable VAT, and new grounds to deny input VAT linked to tax evasion.
The FTA's first guides on the UAE Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax set out which groups are in scope, which UAE entities must register and by when, and how excluded and investment entities are treated.
Covers taxable persons buying Concerned Goods from outside the UAE: when output VAT must be accounted for, how tax invoices are issued, and the documents needed to recover input VAT.
The FTA confirms the nine-month deadline applies to every taxable person, including those electing Small Business Relief, who must still file a simplified return and keep supporting records.
The AED 3 million revenue threshold for Small Business Relief now applies to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029, up from 31 December 2026. The relief still has to be elected in the return.
New Cabinet and Ministerial Decisions, FTA clarifications, Pillar Two guidance and filing deadlines, each one read by a partner and translated into what you actually need to do.
Strategic tax advisory for businesses that want to know their positions will hold. The first conversation is with a partner, and it is free.