{
  "id": "company-closure",
  "type": "guide",
  "title": "Company closure checklist",
  "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/company-closure",
  "updatedOn": "2026-10-09",
  "links": {
    "html": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/company-closure",
    "markdown": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/md/guides/company-closure",
    "json": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/data/guides/company-closure.json"
  },
  "data": {
    "slug": "company-closure",
    "title": "Company closure checklist",
    "category": "Running your company",
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-09",
    "summary": "Plan licence closure, immigration cancellation and tax deregistration as separate processes.",
    "sections": [
      {
        "title": "Requirements and scope",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Treat licence closure, immigration cancellation and tax deregistration as separate workstreams. For DMCC, identify whether the case is a company winding-up or branch removal, prepare the relevant resolutions and documents, and resolve active visas, permits and access cards. Its guidance includes a 14-calendar-day publication stage and a liquidation report for company winding-up; 14 days is not the whole closure timeline.",
          "DMCC's employee-residence cancellation guidance requires sponsored dependants to be cancelled first and publishes two working days for its employee service. Keep this sequence and duration scoped to that service.",
          "For corporate-tax deregistration following closure/liquidation, prepare licence-cancellation evidence and financial statements through cancellation. FTA's 20 minutes estimates application submission, while complete applications have a 40-working-day processing period; an information request can extend the process. VAT deregistration is a separate application where relevant."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Confirm for your case",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Match these requirements to your entity, activity and authority. This guide does not establish an applicant-specific approval, complete cost or end-to-end timeline."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "DMCC winding-up guidance, internally version 4 dated 5 May 2026 despite V3 filename",
        "url": "https://dmcc.ae/hubfs/o2-Website%202023%20Assets/o2-Website%202023-PDF%20Updates%20%28Nov%2023%29/Support/how%20to%20guide/managing%20a%20company/LICENSING%20SERVICES/Guidance_Notes_Enhanced_Company_Winding_Up_V3.pdf?hsLang=ar"
      },
      {
        "label": "DMCC employee cancellation guide",
        "url": "https://dmcc.ae/members/support/knowledge-bank/employee-residence-visa-cancellation-guidelines"
      },
      {
        "label": "FTA corporate-tax deregistration",
        "url": "https://www.tax.gov.ae/en/services/corporate.tax.deregistration.aspx"
      },
      {
        "label": "FTA VAT deregistration",
        "url": "https://www.tax.gov.ae/en/services/vat.deregistration.aspx"
      }
    ]
  },
  "attribution": {
    "required": true,
    "publisher": "Dubai Setup Index",
    "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/company-closure",
    "license": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/docs/citation",
    "citation": "Dubai Setup Index. “Company closure checklist.” Updated 2026-10-09. https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/company-closure",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Dubai Setup Index](https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/company-closure). “Company closure checklist.” Updated 2026-10-09.",
    "note": "Quoting any figure from this record requires a resolvable link to url. Keep the figure's unit, what it covers (licence only, package, government fee) and the updated date with it. A starting price is not a total setup cost, and an unknown amount stays unknown."
  }
}