We have helped 2,500+ founders set up their businesses, residency and bank accounts in Dubai. All five pieces, end to end, with your exact cost on screen before anyone asks your name.We have helped 2,500+ founders set up in Dubai, with the exact cost on screen before anyone asks your name.
We handle every step of company formation across the Dubai mainland, the free zones and offshore, so you do not have to work with several different setup companies.Mainland, free zone and offshore, under one roof.
Mainland, free zone and offshore companies, registered end to end.
Learn more →The right licence for your activity, every document prepared.
Learn more →Investor, partner, employee and family visas with Emirates ID.
Learn more →Ten-year residency, with the qualifying route mapped for you.
Learn more →Corporate tax and VAT registered correctly from day one.
Learn more →Your file built the way UAE bank compliance expects it.
Learn more →Renewals, amendments and approvals across every authority.
Learn more →Renew ahead of the fines, with no counters or queues.
Learn more →We are your #1 business setup consultant in the UAE.
Real DBC packages with the real numbers on them, straight from the price book our cost calculator uses. No starting-from games, no fee that appears later.
The whole first step in one package: your trade licence, your residence visa and your Emirates ID, with your bank file prepared while it runs.
Zero visa package
One visa package
Company only package
No visa package
An offshore company holds assets and trades outside the UAE. It does not carry residence visas.
*T&C apply Get Started Today →Mainland, free zone and offshore, every package we run. View All Packages
Simple monthly plans that keep a UAE company organised, compliant and supported, from one team that already knows your file. PRO Services and Business Care cover a company with up to five employees. Accounting plans follow your monthly transactions instead.Monthly plans for accounting, PRO and complete business care. Accounting follows your transactions.
One PRO team, four levels of support. The employee limit stays the same on every plan. Move up when you need broader coverage and higher priority.
Essential PRO Support
Best for: New and small companies that need the core PRO work covered.
PRO Plus WPS and HR
Best for: Companies that need regular PRO, payroll coordination and basic HR documents.
Priority PRO Support
Best for: Active SMEs that need wider government and corporate admin support.
Complete PRO Care
Best for: Businesses that want DBC as their outsourced PRO and admin desk.
The plan level follows your monthly transaction volume and how much reporting, tax and management support you want.
Essential Bookkeeping
Best for: Startups and low-transaction businesses that want clean monthly books.
Bookkeeping Plus Reporting
Best for: Growing businesses that need regular reporting and stronger financial control.
Accounting Plus Tax Support
Best for: Active SMEs that need accounting, reporting and ongoing tax support.
Complete Accounting Care
Best for: Businesses that want DBC to run as their outsourced accounting department.
Accounting, PRO, compliance and payroll from one desk, for less than one salary. Upgrade on how much support and priority your business needs.
Essential Support
Best for: Small businesses that need the essentials handled, consistently.
Growing Business
Best for: Businesses that need accounting plus regular payroll, tax and PRO coordination.
Hands-On Support
Best for: Active SMEs that want DBC closely involved in the day to day.
Complete Business Care
Best for: Clients who want DBC to operate like an outsourced business-support department.
Government fees, fines, deposits and third-party charges are excluded unless stated. Tasheel, Amer and other transaction-centre applications are charged separately. Every service stays subject to the authority's own requirements and approvals.
A real example from our cost calculator: a Meydan free zone company with one partner visa, the applicant inside the UAE. Every government fee is included.
A real example from our cost calculator: a spouse visa sponsored on an employment visa, with the applicant outside the UAE.
A real example from our cost calculator: a mainland General Trading licence with one partner, one manager and a virtual office. One all-in price, every government fee included.
Get a quotation for your company formation, PRO and visa services online, book the service, and track it through to done. No office visits until there is something to sign.Quote online, book online, and track your setup through to done.
Company formation, visas, accounting, banking or PRO. Pick what you need.
The calculator prices it line by line, on screen, before anyone asks your name.
Passport copies and photos, sent from your phone. We check them the same day.
Pay against the itemized quote. Government fees are paid as each application files.
We run the filings and keep you updated at every step, through to done.
Registered with and working across the UAE's authorities and free zones
Everyone who walks in asks the same three things: what it costs, which documents they need, and how long it takes. So we put all three on the site, in public. I have nothing to hide, and you should not have to chase anyone for a number.
Most agencies sell you the license and disappear. The license is one piece of five. Here is the whole machine, with honest timelines.The licence is one piece of five.
Your legal right to operate. Free zone in 2 to 5 working days, mainland in 1 to 2 weeks. We pick the jurisdiction from who your customers are, not from what pays us more.
Investor, partner, employee and family visas with medicals and Emirates ID, typically 1 to 2 weeks after the license. Family can be added right after yours.
UAE banks vet new companies hard, and this is where setups stall for months. We build your file the way compliance wants it and match you to a bank that fits your profile.
Corporate tax is 9% above AED 375,000 profit, VAT is 5% past AED 375,000 turnover. Registrations are handled at setup so nothing bites you in month six.
Renewals, amendments, approvals and document clearing across every UAE authority. The piece that keeps the other four alive every year after.
While your license processes, the bank file and tax registrations are already moving. That is how week one stays week one.While your licence processes, the bank file and tax registrations are already moving.
The same company costs and behaves differently depending on where it is registered, and the right answer comes from who your customers are. Here is the honest split.The right route comes from who your customers are. Here is the honest split.
Sell anywhere in the UAE, including to government. The route for shops, restaurants, local services and anyone whose customers are here.
The fastest, leanest start. Best for consulting, online business, media and anyone serving clients outside the UAE or over the internet.
The 0% corporate tax rate applies only in a designated free zone, and only on qualifying income. Sell into the mainland and VAT still applies past AED 375,000 turnover.
A holding and international trading vehicle. It protects assets and trades globally, but it cannot do business inside the UAE and carries no visas.
Still torn between the two big routes? Read the full mainland vs free zone cost comparison.
Upload your license, get a free eligibility check, and let DBC's PRO team clear the renewal before the fines start. No counters, no standing in line.
Check my renewal →You already tell people to move to Dubai. The DBC partner program pays you for every completed setup you refer, as an individual or as a business.
Become a partner →Every card opens the full playbook for that business: the licence it needs, the authority that approves it, what it costs and the steps in order.Every card opens that business's full playbook: licence, approvals, cost and steps.
The licence behind an online store, and how sellers actually get paid.
Open the playbook →The food licence, municipality approvals and the kitchen inspection.
Open the playbook →RERA exams, DLD approvals and the brokerage licence, mapped.
Open the playbook →A professional licence with 100% ownership and a lean setup.
Open the playbook →Customs registration and trading through Jebel Ali's routes.
Open the playbook →The freight licence, customs codes and warehousing, in order.
Open the playbook →Licence, visas and what a lean agency actually costs to run.
Open the playbook →DHA licensing for clinics, and who is allowed to own one.
Open the playbook →These are 8 of 29 industry playbooks in the knowledge base.
Dubai Business Corporation sets up companies in the UAE and runs everything around it: company formation, residence visas, PRO, accounting and corporate banking. One team, from your first question to your open bank account.One team, from first question to open bank account.
On Sheikh Zayed Road, not a virtual desk.
Mainland, free zone and offshore, from one real price book.
By the founders we have set up.
A person who does this every day, never a call centre.
“They processed my Golden Visa, which it took them 4 working days to complete the process with VIP service centres for health check up and Emirates ID Issuance. Their team was updating me on each step they were taking.”
“I’ve been dealing with this team for over 15 years. Very professional in every sense. Company set up, visas and other PRO work. They are the best in the business.”
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with DBC for several years, and they continue to exceed expectations in every way. Their team is not only knowledgeable and professional but also genuinely dedicated to understanding each client’s goals.”
“Many years of positive relationships. Acceptable prices. Trustable Company. 10 from 10.”Norpa Trading LLC, on Google
Every answer is grounded in DBC's own price book and process, not generic internet advice. Ask it what a license costs, which free zone fits, or what happens if your visa lapses. Free, instant, 24/7.Grounded in DBC's own price book and process. Free, instant, 24/7.
Ask about corporate tax, VAT, registration, returns and penalties. It answers from DBC's own guidance, the published UAE tax law and the FTA's guides, shows you the source, and ends with a free consultation.Corporate tax and VAT, answered from the law with the source shown. Free, in three languages.
Total setup typically runs AED 5,500 to AED 37,500 all in. A free zone licence with no visas starts around AED 6,500 in Sharjah and AED 11,920 in Dubai. A free zone package with one or two visas lands between AED 14,500 and AED 30,000. A mainland company licence usually falls between AED 17,772 and AED 28,287. The cost calculator gives you your exact number in under a minute.
A free zone company is typically registered in 2 to 5 working days once documents are complete. Mainland usually takes 1 to 2 weeks. Residence visas and Emirates ID add a further 1 to 2 weeks after the license exists. Activities needing ministry approval (healthcare, finance, education) take longer, and we say so before you start.
Usually not for the license itself. Most free zones and many mainland structures register companies remotely with attested documents. You need to be in the UAE once for the visa medical and Emirates ID biometrics, which happen after the company already exists.
Yes. Free zones have always allowed 100% foreign ownership, and since 2021 more than 1,000 mainland activities do too, with no Emirati sponsor. A short list of strategic activities still requires UAE national participation, and we tell you upfront if yours is one.
It comes down to who your customers are. Selling to people or companies inside the UAE (retail, restaurants, local services, government work) points to mainland. Serving clients internationally or online (consulting, IT, e-commerce, media) points to a free zone, usually faster and cheaper to start. Unsure? We map it to your actual customer base on a free call.
UAE banks run strict compliance and KYC checks, and this is the step that stalls most new companies. We prepare your file in the format banks expect, match you to a bank that actually serves your profile, and walk the application through. That preparation is the difference between days and months.
Every quote is itemized. Each government fee is its own line, our professional fee is shown separately, and VAT of 5% applies to the professional fee only. That total is what you owe us. Nothing is bundled into a single mystery number. A 3% card processing fee is added only if you choose to pay through our secure online payment link.
No. Government fees are paid to the authority when each application is filed, so payments follow the process rather than landing as one lump sum on day one. Your consultant sets out the payment points against the timeline before you commit, and nothing is taken before you have the written quotation.
Your license, office and visas renew annually. Renewal is usually meaningfully cheaper than year one because one-time formation charges do not repeat. We flag every renewal well before its deadline and re-quote it in the same itemized format. Already due? Start a renewal check here.
Yes. Once your own residence visa and Emirates ID are issued, you can sponsor your spouse and children as dependants. Sponsorship needs a minimum salary level and attested marriage or birth certificates, and we handle the full dependant application alongside your own.
Yes. The UAE levies no personal income tax on salaries or wages, whatever your visa type or nationality. Your company does have obligations: corporate tax is 9% on profits above AED 375,000 and VAT is 5% once turnover passes AED 375,000. We register both correctly at setup.
Not always. Many free zones accept a flexi desk that satisfies the office requirement at low cost while still carrying visa allocation. Mainland companies generally need an Ejari-registered office. Offshore companies need no UAE office at all, only a registered agent address.
For most setups: a clear passport copy for every shareholder, a passport-style photo, and a short description of your business activity. Some structures also need proof of address, attested certificates, a No Objection Certificate if you are already on a UAE visa, or an Ejari tenancy for mainland. The exact checklist comes with your free consultation.
Yes. Our PRO team takes over renewals, amendments and government work for existing companies every week. Tell us where you are in the process on WhatsApp and a consultant confirms exactly what is needed, with the same itemized pricing.
Twenty minutes with a consultant who does this every day beats a week of reading. Tell us where you are and we will tell you what it actually takes.
A DBC consultant will come back to you the same working day. If it is urgent, WhatsApp us on +971 54 580 0880 and we will pick it up straight away.
One office, in the tower on Sheikh Zayed Road. Walk in, or start on WhatsApp and come in when the paperwork is ready to sign.
Get your exact setup cost on screen now, or message a real consultant who will tell you the honest path, not the expensive one.Your exact cost on screen now, from a consultant who tells you the honest path.
