United Arab Emirates

Accounting practice management software for firms in the UAE

A practice in Dubai carries a portfolio no single piece of tax software was written for. Mainland companies and free-zone entities, some on a December year end and some not, a few still billing in dollars because that is what the contract said in 2019. The work is VAT returns for one client, a statutory audit for the next, bookkeeping and management accounts for the twenty in between, and somewhere in the middle a trade licence that renews in nine days and nobody has told the client.

MyTask is the system that holds all of it in one place: which engagement is due, who in the firm has it, what it is still waiting on from the client, what it has cost you in hours and what you have actually invoiced. It is not tax software and does not pretend to be — it is the layer above the tax work, which is the layer most firms are running on a spreadsheet and a WhatsApp group.

Nothing in it is hard-coded to India. You set the financial year, you name the taxes, you choose the currency per office, and you build your own service list — so a firm doing VAT returns and corporate tax in Deira configures it as readily as one doing GST in Mumbai.

For accountants and bookkeepers that means one place for job management and workflow automation — recurring engagements raise themselves on the cycle you set — with time tracking on every job, billing that reads the hours, and a client portal where the client sees where their work has reached and sends what you asked for without another email.

What is different for firms in the UAE

Financial year
1 January – 31 December, or whatever year end your clients' licences run to
Taxes
VAT and Corporate Tax — named by you, rates set by you
Currency
AED, held per office, with USD alongside it where clients still bill that way
Services & stages
Built by you, from nothing

Work MyTask manages for firms in the UAE

None of this is shipped pre-configured. You build the service list, the stages inside each service and the documents each one asks the client for — which is why the same software fits a firm here and a firm in another country.

  1. VAT returns

    Monthly or quarterly depending on the client's tax period, each against its own TRN. Set the cycle once per client and the return appears on the board every period, with the same checklist and the same documents asked for.

  2. Corporate tax registration and returns

    A newer obligation and the one most firms are still building a process for — which is exactly the work that benefits from having a defined set of stages rather than living in one manager's head.

  3. Statutory audit and assurance

    Multi-stage engagements that run for weeks, with documents requested, chased and received, time recorded against the job, and a partner review that has to happen before anything is signed.

  4. Bookkeeping and management accounts

    The recurring monthly work that quietly becomes half a firm's revenue and is the first thing to go unbilled when nobody is tracking the hours.

  5. UBO and shareholder register filings

    Low-effort, high-penalty, easy to forget. Recurring obligations like these are the reason a due-date board exists.

  6. AML compliance for DNFBPs

    Auditors and corporate service providers carry their own compliance burden, including goAML registration and periodic reporting — tracked as work with a deadline, like any other engagement.

  7. Trade licence renewals and PRO co-ordination

    Not accounting work at all, which is why it falls through the cracks. If your firm is the one the client expects to remember, it belongs on the same board as everything else.

  8. Liquidation and de-registration

    Long, document-heavy, and stalled for months at a time waiting on one authority or another. Work that waits needs to say what it is waiting on.

What this does not do

MyTask does not file with the Federal Tax Authority, does not compute your VAT or corporate tax, and does not connect to any UAE government portal. There is no such integration and we would rather say so here than on a demo call. What it does is tell you which returns are due and for whom, who in the firm is preparing each one, what is still missing from the client, how long it has taken and whether it was ever invoiced. The filing happens where it always has.

What stays the same in every country

Practice management is not a tax code. It is a way of running a firm, and a partner in the UAE has the same Monday as a partner anywhere else.

  • Knowing what is late
  • Knowing what it is waiting on
  • Knowing who is doing it
  • Knowing what it cost
  • Knowing what was billed
  • Knowing what was never billed
  • Knowing where the client's papers are
  • Knowing what you told the client, and when

Who it is for in the UAE

  • Audit firms and approved auditors registered with the Ministry of Economy
  • Accounting and bookkeeping firms serving mainland and free-zone companies
  • Tax agents and tax agencies registered with the Federal Tax Authority
  • Corporate service providers handling licensing, UBO and compliance filings
  • ACCA, ICAEW and ICAI members running practices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah

Questions firms in the UAE ask

We run a Dubai office and a back office in India. Can both sit in one account?
Yes, and this is the case the branch module was built for. Each office keeps its own financial year, its own currency and its own tax structure — Dubai on January–December in dirhams, the Indian office on April–March in rupees — inside one firm. Reports read office by office or consolidated, and the consolidation is honest about which figures can legitimately be added together.
Our free-zone clients are invoiced in USD. Is that a problem?
No. Currency is held per office rather than per installation, and an invoice can be viewed converted into another currency without altering the invoice itself — the figure the client agreed stays the figure on the document.
Is this an Indian product being sold to us unchanged?
It was built in India, for Chartered Accountants, and that is where most of its users are. But the Indian part is the tax vocabulary, and the tax vocabulary is the part you configure. What is left — the deadlines, the staff, the documents, the time, the billing, the client communication — is the same job in Deira as it is in Mumbai.
Can clients see their own work?
There is a separate client app, part of the Client Login Portal (included in Ultimate Combo up to its limits, an add-on on the other packages). Your clients see the stage a job has reached and what it is waiting on from them; they do not see who is assigned, what the job has cost you, or any note you have written internally.

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