The Free Zone Authority has a questionnaire to assess your company's requirements and whether it can be met. After submitting the questionnaire, you will be given a license application, a list of invoice required for planning, consumer request for electricity and Form B for environmental concerns if applicable. Submit the license application.

Provisional approval is given along with a specimen lease agreement; personnel documents for the License requirement are submitted. After the company representative and the Authority have met and finalized details of the project, actual documents are processed.

Dubai itself is not tax free, although this generalization is often made. Rather, Dubai contains a number of economic free zones which have various economic incentives to encourage investment and commercial development. These zones include the Internet and Media Cities, the International Financial Centre, Maritime City, the Airport Free Zone, and the Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Companies and their managers are limited by few restrictions in a liberal business climate. There are no requirements that force companies to enter in to partnerships with local enterprises, no import or export duties are payable within the zone, there is 100% repatriation of both profit and capital within the zone, and there are no restrictions on currency. The advantages offered by the Jebel Ali Free Zone to those considering retirement, and who have assets they would like to invest in a state where their tax liabilities are limited, are quite obvious.