What you actually keep in the UAE
| Gross salary | UK resident | UAE resident |
|---|---|---|
| £60,000 | £45,357 | £60,000+£14,643 |
| £100,000 | £68,557 | £100,000+£31,443 |
| £150,000 | £91,286 | £150,000+£58,714 |
| £250,000 | £144,286 | £250,000+£105,714 |
Every figure above is a separate call to the same engine the calculator uses, run at build time on 2026-08-12. The green column is the best available outcome at that income.
The United Arab Emirates options, priced
- UAE resident. No personal income tax on salary, dividends or gains. Corporate tax applies to businesses, not to a natural person's investment income.
The uae has one regime to model here, which makes the structure and the residency date the only levers that matter.
What actually moves the number
- There is no personal income tax to model, so the entire outcome is decided by whether you have genuinely left the UK.
- The UK company still pays UK corporation tax. Moving yourself does not move the company.
- The UK and the UAE have a double taxation agreement, and the UK does not withhold tax on outbound dividends.
When United Arab Emirates starts taxing you
The UAE side is straightforward. The hard part is the UK side: the Statutory Residence Test, and in particular the ties test and the split-year rules, is what decides whether HMRC agrees you have gone.
The other half is the UK side. Leaving the UK tax net is the Statutory Residence Test, and running a UK company from outside the UK raises Central Management and Control and Permanent Establishment questions that are separate from your own residence. Running a UK limited company while living abroad covers both.
What this calculation assumes
- Social security is the weak point in this calculation. The model charges the destination country's employee contributions and drops UK National Insurance the moment residence moves. In practice UK NI often continues for a period after you leave, and which country you contribute to is set by a social security agreement rather than by where you are tax resident. Treat the take-home figure as the optimistic end of the range, and the gap is largest where the destination charges no social security of its own.
- Employer National Insurance is shown as an employer cost, so it is outside your take-home. It does not disappear when you move, and it is often the reason an employer says no.
- Cross-border scenario detected. Check the applicable double-tax treaty between United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates.
- 0% personal income tax on salary/dividends/gains. Natural persons taxed only on business turnover above AED 1m.
The last items are the engine's own disclosures, reproduced rather than summarised. Where a regime is not modelled it is named as not modelled, because a caveat you have to go looking for is not a caveat.