ESR Registration, scoped around your position.
Understand your Economic Substance obligations and complete the required registration with expert guidance.
ESR is no longer an ongoing registration or filing regime for financial years ending after 31 December 2022. This service is limited to checking historical portal access, prior-period records and unresolved authority matters.
Reviewed against current official guidanceContent review date: 2026-08-30. The official authority remains the source of truth for eligibility, deadlines, fees and processing.
When this service may be relevant
A business needs access to historical ESR records
A pre-2023 relevant activity was not assessed
An old filing profile or authority request remains open
A buyer or auditor requests evidence of historical compliance
Records to prepare
Historical portal and registration information
Trade licences and relevant-activity analysis
Prior notifications, reports and receipts
Authority correspondence
Expected work products
- 01Historical status review
- 02Prior-period evidence index
- 03Outstanding-action assessment
- 04Current-regime clarification note
Important scope limits
- This page does not represent ESR as a current annual registration requirement
- Prior-period facts may still require specialist review
- Portal availability does not itself create a current filing obligation
Primary sourceUAE Ministry of Finance — Economic Substance amendment
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