2026 Medan Dormant Company Cancels: These Prerequisites to Be Satisfied First

In Dubai's Medan Free Zone, many enterprises have entered a dormant state due to business suspension and strategic shelving. Long-term laissez-faire will not only accumulate high overdue fines year by year, but also cause shareholders' UAE entry records and subsequent new company registration applications to be marked abnormally. In 2026, the US-Denmark Free Zone introduced a simplified write-off channel for dormant companies, but a series of pre-verification conditions must be met before the write-off process can be successfully entered, avoiding rejection or even additional compliance costs.

1. basis Statutory premise: the enterprise has solvency, no debt disputes

This is the core entry threshold for dormant companies to write off:

1. During the whole dormancy period, the company has no external accounts payable, bank loans, partner arrears, performance guarantee and other liabilities, and the total assets are greater than all expenses payable.

2. There are no records of outstanding commercial arbitration, legal proceedings and administrative penalties, and there are no rectification notices and fine tickets issued by the park supervision department to be processed.

3, the equity clear no dispute, no equity pledge, share freezing, holding disputes, all shareholders unanimously agreed to terminate the dormancy state and apply for dissolution and cancellation, a single shareholder objection can not submit the application.

2. dormancy duration of all compliance fees, fines fully settled

after the enterprise enters dormancy, although the annual audit maintenance cost is greatly reduced, the basic administrative annual fee and overdue fine will continue to be recorded, and must be paid in one lump sum before cancellation:

1, to pay the previous years dormancy survival management fee, virtual address custody fee, legal secretary annual fee.

2. make up all late fees arising from late declaration: including the annual UBO final beneficiary declaration late penalty, dormant annual report late penalty.

3. Terminate the lease agreement of the park address, obtain the NOC certificate issued by the Meidan Administration for settlement of no arrears, and formally terminate the office custody contract.

3. tax full set of settlement and tax number cancellation (hard and necessary link)

dormant enterprises are still under the jurisdiction of the UAE Federal Tax Administration FTA, zero flow is also required to report on schedule, cancellation must complete all tax closure:

1, complete from registration to dormancy termination of all annual corporate income tax zero declaration, fill in the final liquidation period tax statements;

2. If VAT VAT number has been registered, the last VAT declaration form must be submitted to apply for VAT cancellation. Failure to cancel within the time limit will result in a single fine of up to 10000 dirhams;

3, for the enterprise's overall tax cancellation, apply for the official tax clearance certificate without objection;

4, dormant shell has never opened any tax number, need to submit a dormant period of zero revenue statement, by the accountant issued tax-free survival supporting materials for archiving.

4. all residence visas cleared, the labor department to complete the employment settlement

as long as the company's name has been bound with investor visas and employee work visas, visa quotas cannot be retained in a dormant state:

1. Cancel all UAE residence visas affiliated to the enterprise, complete medical examination and filing, and untie the immigration system;

2. Even if there are no full-time employees, they should issue a declaration of useless workers to the Ministry of Labor and apply for a labor settlement certificate. Those who have been employed need to settle their severance compensation and annual leave salary to prevent labor disputes;

3. Clear the filing information of all personnel in the enterprise Establishment Card filing card to ensure that there are no records of affiliated personnel under the name of the enterprise.

5. assets and bank accounts standardized disposal completed

1, the public offshore bank account funds inventory liquidation: the remaining capital in the account, idle funds unified collection, the preparation of funds to return to shareholders distribution plan.

2, formally submit the bank account cancellation application, obtain the bank account cancellation receipt, fund settlement confirmation letter.

3, no fixed assets, inventory, vehicles, real estate and other physical assets.

6. document preparation and main resolution pre-requirements

1. All shareholders sign a written dissolution resolution stating: terminate dormancy, appoint an official licensed liquidator, agree to initiate voluntary liquidation and cancellation, asset distribution plan.

2, the appointment of a certified liquidator in the list of Meidan Park, issued a liquidation appointment acceptance letter, individual shareholders are not allowed to carry out liquidation work on their own.

3, the collection of a full set of survival information: the original business license, articles of association, dormant approval receipt, dormant annual report receipt, equity certificate, all submitted to the liquidator for filing and verification.

7. Other Additional Pending Matters

1. Trade dormant companies that have handled the UAE customs code need to cancel the customs record code in advance and get the customs settlement document;

2, settle the telecommunications, network, all kinds of third-party service providers small arrears, no external bills left;

3, the domestic parent company holding the establishment of the United States Dan dormant company, need to sort out ODI Overseas Investment Filing related information in advance, after the completion of the overseas cancellation of domestic ODI termination write-off.

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