To connect the law with the numbers, the numbers with the business, and the business with practical implementation, helping organisations achieve compliance, reduce risk and build sustainable solutions.
About ACME Group
A tax practice organised around dates.
We started in Dubai in 2014, before corporate tax existed here. What has not changed since is the thing the whole firm is built to prevent: a client finding out about an obligation after the window has closed.
Dubai office
From the lead tax partner
Most penalties we see were never a disagreement about tax. They were a date nobody owned.
When VAT arrived in 2018 we watched capable, well-run businesses get caught out, not by complexity, but by a calendar nobody was keeping. Corporate tax repeated it in 2023 at a larger scale. So we built the practice around the calendar first and the technical work second, which is an unusual way round for an accounting firm.
Mohamed Ghazala
CEO & Lead Tax Partner
2014 to today
Our history is the rulebook's history.
A tax practice in this market has no story separate from the legislation it answers to. Every desk we opened was a response to something that arrived on the statute book, usually with a deadline attached.
What the rules did
What we did about it
2014
ACME
Licensed in Dubai
Four people, one room in Al Barsha, doing bookkeeping for SMEs. There was no tax to advise on yet.
2018
Legislation
VAT introduced at 5%
The UAE's first broad-based tax. Registration thresholds, quarterly returns and a filing calendar arrived at once for businesses that had never filed anything.
2018
ACME
VAT desk opened
Ninety registrations in the first quarter, most of them businesses that had left it late. That year taught us the thing the firm is now built around.
2019
Legislation
Economic Substance Regulations
An annual obligation with no invoice attached: the kind of filing that gets missed precisely because nobody bills for it.
2020
ACME
Compliance desk formed
A separate team for ESR, UBO and AML, on the view that obligations nobody sends you a bill for need someone whose job is to watch for them.
2021
ACME
Dispute practice formed
A dedicated team for FTA audits, reconsideration requests and objections: the work that begins where advisory ends.
2023
Legislation
Corporate tax takes effect
9% above AED 375,000, for financial years starting on or after 1 June 2023. The largest single change to how business is done here since the free zones.
2023
ACME
Registered as an FTA tax agency
Which means a named agent signs for our clients before the authority, and represents them in an audit.
2024
Legislation
First returns fall due
Nine months after each financial year end: a rolling deadline rather than a national date, which is why so many businesses got it wrong.
2026
ACME
2,400th return filed
AED 300M+ in tax exposures and disputes resolved, from first audit contact through to litigation.
The record so far
Verified against internal records, August 20260+
Clients served across the UAE, GCC and Egypt
Active client records
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Tax exposures and disputes resolved
Dispute resolution record, to date
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Years of combined partner experience
Across tax, audit and advisory
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Professionals across the practice
20+ languages spoken
Purpose, mission, vision
Connecting the law with the numbers, and the numbers with the business.
To support businesses through integrated advisory services combining regulatory insight, tax expertise, accounting knowledge and operational understanding, transforming technical knowledge into practical, defensible and sustainable solutions.
To be the trusted regional advisory partner for businesses seeking practical, strategic and sustainable solutions in tax, accounting, governance and business advisory across the UAE, GCC and Egypt.
What we hold to
Six values, each of them checkable
Big 4 discipline, regulatory insight and practical implementation: the positioning the firm is measured against.
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Integrity
Defensible, ethical, evidence-based advice.
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Expertise
Regulatory insight plus business understanding.
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Implementation
From advice to action، end to end.
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Partnership
Senior professionals engaged throughout.
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Precision
Technical depth meets operational reality.
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Trust
AED 300M+ in disputes resolved.
The team
Who signs your file
Senior professionals stay engaged throughout the work, that is one of the six commitments, and it is the one clients notice first.
- Focus
- Corporate tax, group structuring
- Credential
- FTA-registered tax agent
- Focus
- Practice management, client delivery
- Credential
- 12 years in the UAE market
- Focus
- Transfer pricing, documentation
- Credential
- OECD guidelines specialist
- Focus
- Corporate tax, e-invoicing
- Credential
- Leads the e-invoicing readiness desk
- Focus
- VAT, excise, reclaims
- Credential
- Arabic, English, French
- Focus
- Audit, IFRS conversions
- Credential
- UAE-approved auditor
Names and roles are indicative pending client sign-off; photography is ACME's own.
Where we are
One office. Three markets.
Dubai head office
- Address
- Office 602/603, Barsha Business Square, Al Barsha 1, Dubai
P.O. Box 118651, UAE - Hours
- Sunday–Thursday, 9:00–18:00 GST
- Telephone
- +971 52 740 1169 · +971 4 55 8724
Coverage
- Markets served
- UAE · GCC · Egypt
- Languages
- 20+ languages across the team
- Industries
- 50+ industries served
Legal entity
- Registered name
- Aspire Consultance ME for Bookkeeping and Taxation Co. LLC
- Trading as
- ACME Group
- Standing
- FTA-registered tax agency
FTA-registered tax agency
ACCA-qualified partners
IFRS reporting
goAML registered
UAE-approved auditors
Work with us
Start with the deadline that worries you most.
Thirty minutes with a partner, no charge. You leave with a written list of what applies to your licence and what it costs to stay compliant.
Or read what we publish
One email a month covering what the FTA published and what is due next. Nothing else.
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