R&D Tax Credits

Prepare the evidence needed to assess your eligibility for UAE R&D tax credits worth up to AED 2 million. Purpose-built technology for R&D analysis and evidence – not a generic AI layer, built specifically for how UAE R&D claims work.

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Daribatech AI Evidence Engine turning engineering and project systems, financial records and time and cost data into an R&D Council pre-approval file for R&D tax credits.

Our solution

Innovation Now Pays

The UAE’s R&D Tax Credit is live for tax periods from 1 January 2026 – with pre-approval required before spend is incurred. Daribatech turns the technical work your teams are already doing into documented, pre-approved, claim-ready credits – up to 50% back on qualifying spend, with the evidence to defend every dirham.

  • Daribatech connected to Jira, Azure and GitHub for R&D tax credit evidence.

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    Connect Your Systems

    Daribatech plugs into the engineering, project, and finance systems you already run. No new workflows, no parallel record-keeping – your development activity, cost data, and project records become the raw material of the claim.

  • List of engineering activities tagged as Eligible, Qualifies or OECD Match for the R&D tax credit.

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    Identify Qualifying Activity

    Our AI reads your technical records and maps activity against the OECD Frascati criteria – novel, creative, uncertain, systematic, transferable. Qualifying R&D is identified from the work itself, not from what someone remembers at year-end. Nothing gets missed, and nothing gets claimed that shouldn’t be.

  • AI Model Training project with eligible cost categories: Salaries, Contractors and Cloud Costs.

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    Capture Eligible Costs

    Eligible expenditure is tracked across projects, departments, 
and entities as it’s incurred – staff time, contractor costs, consumables, and supporting overheads – allocated against qualifying activity with the link between cost and work preserved.

  • Three R&D claim documents: a generated Technical Narrative, a time-stamped Cost Schedule and a verified Project Timeline.

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    Build the Evidence Trail

    Technical narratives, project timelines, and expenditure schedules are generated automatically from the actual work – contemporaneous, time-stamped, and traceable to source. The seven-year documentation requirement is covered by design, not reconstructed under pressure.

  • Folder labelled Claim Package containing the compiled R&D tax credit documents.

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    A Claim-Ready File

    A complete, structured claim pack – ready for Emirates Research and Development Council pre-approval submission and FTA filing, with every figure backed by evidence your advisors can take forward directly.

Business value

A Credit You Can Defend

The value of an R&D claim isn’t what you submit – it’s what survives scrutiny. Daribatech is built for both.

  • High Returns

    Direct Credit Value

    Tiered credits of 15%, 35%, and 50% on qualifying expenditure, up to AED 2M per entity per year. For businesses genuinely investing in R&D, this is material, recurring value – not a rounding error.

  • Right First Time

    Done Properly

    Emirates R&D Council pre-approval is required before qualifying spend is incurred. Daribatech structures your project scoping and technical descriptions so the pre-approval application is right the first time – because timing you can’t recover is value you can’t claim.

  • Low Effort

    Zero Added Workload

    Your engineers keep engineering. The evidence base is generated from the work they’re already doing – no interview marathons, no retrospective questionnaires, no spreadsheet archaeology.

  • Audit Ready

    Audit-Ready By Default

    Every activity, cost, and classification decision is time-stamped and source-linked, retained for the full seven-year requirement. If the FTA asks, the answer already exists.

  • R&D credit tiers of 15%, 35% and 50% by qualifying expenditure and R&D staff count, up to a maximum annual credit of AED 2.0M.
    R&D credit tiers of 15%, 35% and 50% by qualifying expenditure and R&D staff count, up to a maximum annual credit of AED 2.0M.
  • Pre-Approval Package with four parts, Project Scope, Technical Objectives, Innovation Statement and Supporting Evidence, marked Ready to serve.
    Pre-Approval Package with four parts, Project Scope, Technical Objectives, Innovation Statement and Supporting Evidence, marked Ready to serve.
  • Evidence generated automatically from GitHub commits, Jira tasks, ERP costs and project document files.
    Evidence generated automatically from GitHub commits, Jira tasks, ERP costs and project document files.
  • Evidence Registry record linking a GitHub source to a cost of AED 42,000 for the AI Platform project, marked Verified.
    Evidence Registry record linking a GitHub source to a cost of AED 42,000 for the AI Platform project, marked Verified.

Find Out Where You Stand

  • R&D tax credit calculator example: AED 4M annual R&D spend and 15 full-time R&D staff give an estimated credit of AED 1,500,000 per year against the Corporate Tax bill.

    R&D Credit Calculator

    An immediate estimate of your credit position across the 15%, 35%, and 50% tiers. Two minutes, no commitment.

    Estimate My Credit
  • Chat with the UAE R&D tax credit assistant: outsourced software development is eligible if it meets the qualifying R&D criteria under UAE rules with supporting documentation, and cloud costs may qualify when directly linked to eligible R&D activities.

    UAE R&D Tax Credit Assistant

    Trained on the UAE regime. Ask anything – eligibility, qualifying activities, documentation requirements, the Tawwer process – and get a straight answer.

    Ask the Assistant

Why Daribatech

Regulator-trusted. AI-native. Built for
the full tax picture.

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  • A Partner the Regulator already Vets

    Daribatech is a UAE-founded tax technology company and an FTA-accredited service provider fo re-invoicing, trusted with mission-critical, real-time compliance infrastructure for some of the region’s most data-sensitive enterprises. That’s the standard of governance and security behind your R&D claim.

  • AI Built For Tax, Not Bolted On

    AI is not a feature we added – it’s how we work across our platform. For R&D, our AI reads your actual technical and financial records, classifies qualifying activity against the Frascati criteria, and generates the documentation from source. More complete than interviews and questionnaires, and defensible because every line traces back to real work.

  • One Partner Across Your Tax Stack

    E-invoicing, VAT, Pillar Two, R&D – Daribatech covers the full GCC tax technology landscape, and works alongside your tax advisors rather than around them. The R&D tax credit isn’t a standalone product from a single-issue vendor; it’s part of one relationship that understands your whole tax position.

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