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The Dubai Exit Plan for UK Centimillionaires
Ready to Exit the UK Cleanly and Legally?
UK centimillionaires are quietly executing high-control exits to Dubai — leveraging clean residency breaks, global trust structures, and Big 4-backed setups for 0% tax and family asset protection. Here’s how to do it right.
Quick Snapshot: Is This You?
- Net worth of £100M+
- Multiple operating companies, real estate, or legacy holdings
- Family offices or trusted advisors coordinating your capital
- You’ve considered the UAE — but need more than headlines
- You’re not just looking to move. You’re looking to exit cleanly, quietly, and permanently
If that’s you — this isn’t about immigration.
It’s about engineering jurisdictional advantage for decades to come.
Why Dubai Has Become the Sovereign Base for Quiet Giants
The UAE isn’t a “tax haven.”
It’s a sovereign wealth magnet with:
- 0% income and capital gains tax
- Full foreign asset ownership
- Stable banking + gold-standard privacy
- No estate or inheritance tax
- Deep regional ties to Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Residency structures built for scale — not gimmicks
When structured correctly, Dubai offers not just freedom — but resilience.
It becomes your family’s launchpad, outside the reach of HMRC, EU estate claims, and Western overreach.
What Most HNW Advisors Get Wrong
A 9-figure exit isn’t about:
- Moving your LinkedIn location to “Dubai”
- Opening a freezone company with a random consultant
- Buying a £400K flat to get a visa
- Hoping your UK accountant knows the UAE landscape
You need:
- Clean SRT compliance (not “close-enough” guessing)
- Firewalled trust or HoldCo setups that anchor control offshore
- Precision between personal and corporate flows
- Strategic cross-border timing (for sales, dividends, inheritance)
- UAE banking and residency that matches your institutional profile
- Full-fat audit traceability, if required
This is sovereign-level structuring.
It doesn’t come in a PDF. It comes from real coordination between advisors who’ve done this at scale.
What This Information Is Worth to You (And Why We’re Giving It Away)
You could pay £50K–£250K to top-tier tax counsel, banks, or audit firms for a fragmented version of what’s outlined here — and still walk away with questions.
The cost of poor advice for someone at your level?
- A £30M business sale with tax leakage
- £10M inheritance tied up in UK probate
- HMRC clawbacks after a failed SRT claim
- Dubai assets frozen due to poor nominee setup
We’ve rebuilt enough broken strategies to know:
Most advisors don’t see the full map.
So why share it?
Because serious clients don’t hire us for information.
They hire us for execution with precision, privacy, and permanence.
We work with a limited circle of centimillionaires who want:
- A clean, compliant shift from UK exposure
- End-to-end architecture — from tax exit to trust structuring
- A UAE base that won’t need to be unwound or redone in 5 years
If that’s you?
We’re ready when you are.
[Book a Private Strategy Call] — We’ll map your UAE exit in a way your family office, investors, and future heirs can all stand behind.
What This Information Is Worth to You (And Why We’re Giving It Away)
You could pay £50K–£250K to top-tier tax counsel, banks, or audit firms for a fragmented version of what’s outlined here — and still walk away with questions.
The cost of poor advice for someone at your level?
- A £30M business sale with tax leakage
- £10M inheritance tied up in UK probate
- HMRC clawbacks after a failed SRT claim
- Dubai assets frozen due to poor nominee setup
We’ve rebuilt enough broken strategies to know:
Most advisors don’t see the full map.
So why share it?
Because serious clients don’t hire us for information.
They hire us for execution with precision, privacy, and permanence.
We work with a limited circle of centimillionaires who want:
- A clean, compliant shift from UK exposure
- End-to-end architecture — from tax exit to trust structuring
- A UAE base that won’t need to be unwound or redone in 5 years
If that’s you?
We’re ready when you are.
Book a Private Strategy Call — We’ll map your UAE exit in a way your family office, investors, and future heirs can all stand behind.
The Clean Exit Plan — Step by Step
Here’s what it takes:
1. SRT Forensic Audit
We run a full Statutory Residence Test analysis with timeline mapping.
No vague “split year” loopholes
Bulletproof break points, coordinated with your UK legal and tax team
2. Asset Segregation & Control Flow
- Personal wealth vs. corporate control vs. family trust interests
- Timing of sales, transfers, and appointments
- Clear jurisdictional flow between ownership, benefit, and management
3. UAE Entity & Trust Infrastructure
- DIFC HoldCo or ADGM SPC with proper substance
- UAE-based private trust structures
- Optional dual jurisdiction trusts (e.g., Guernsey–UAE bridge)
4. Residency, Banking, and Physical Base
- 10-year Golden Visa
- Private and corporate banking through credible Tier 1 UAE institutions
- Real address, private client lifestyle, zero performative paperwork
5. Big 4 or Tier 1 Audit Overlay
For select clients, we coordinate annual UAE audits via Big 4 teams to:
- Enhance banking + investment optics
- Prepare for future liquidity events
- Prevent grey zones in case of death or inquiry
Real-World Snapshot: “I Was Done With the UK — Quietly”
A UK national with:
• £120M+ in global assets
• A £30M UK business nearing exit
• Children in multiple countries
• Exposure to UK IHT, CGT, and global reporting
His situation:
- UK accountant had no UAE strategy
- Golden Visa done via basic consultant
- UAE company was in place — but not aligned with family trusts
He asked us to step in — pre-sale — frustrated by conflicting advice and gaps in execution.
And here’s the truth: We couldn’t reverse past missteps. The UK property portfolio would still trigger CGT on disposal — even post-SRT.
But we could still shield the upcoming business exit, rebase future income, and preserve multi-generational capital — if we moved fast and clean.
What We Did
- Ran a forensic SRT audit + sale timeline
- Structured dual-entity setup across DIFC and ADGM
- Rebased personal control and tax residency to the UAE
- Transitioned international assets into multi-jurisdictional trusts
- Created a legacy pathway across his heirs
Today
- Sale completed — with no UK CGT on the business
- UAE 0% tax position secured
- Legacy trust architecture in place
- Family now operating from a private UAE base — with clean cross-border optics, Big 4-audited infrastructure, and a 3-generation legacy plan in motion
Final Word — Haseena. from Dubai
If you’re reading this, you already know the risks of getting it wrong.
At your level, a wrong move doesn’t cost thousands. It costs millions.
You don’t need a consultant.
You need a coordinated, compliant jurisdictional divorce — without noise, exposure, or rework.
That’s what we do.
Let’s map your shift — and make it irreversible.
What’s Next?
Book a Private Strategy Call — We’ll map your Dubai structuring strategy
Read: How to Leave the UK Tax System Legally
Explore: Golden Visa UAE – The Power Move for UK HNWIs
Frequently Asked Questions
Because control, not just registration, is what regulators and banks increasingly care about. UAE structures like ADGM and DIFC now offer globally credible, onshore-substance frameworks — with real auditability, Big 4 overlays, and treaty-aligned governance. This futureproofs your position — and gives you institutional-grade optionality with less reputational risk than traditional secrecy havens.
Yes — but only with engineered control flow. We design phased exits that protect family continuity while severing tax residency, timing income, and anchoring substance abroad. Our clients remain strategically visible in the UK — without triggering tax presence.
With clarity and credibility. We map legal control, residency, and audit trails to align with private bank onboarding, FATCA/CRS, and trust deed integrity. Our Big 4 audit coordination makes the entire ecosystem defensible — even under inquiry, death, or succession events.
No — even after passing the Statutory Residence Test (SRT), UK property remains UK situs. HMRC taxes non-residents on UK property gains. You must file a CGT return within 60 days of completion. This applies to direct ownership — and often to indirect holdings (like shares in UK property-rich companies).
Shares in a UK Ltd or other non-property UK assets — when sold post-SRT. No UK CGT applies if: You’ve cleanly passed the SRT You don’t return to the UK within 5 years The asset isn’t caught by anti-avoidance or PE rules This is how we eliminate CGT on business exits and portfolio holdings — legally and permanently.
Only in specific, pre-structured cases. Moving UK situs assets (property, UK Ltd shares) often triggers CGT unless: You’ve exited UK tax residency You rebase control through a non-UK HoldCo Transfers are timed post-SRT We use clean nominee routes, forensic exit planning, and cross-border coordination to reduce exposure.
No — once you’re non-resident, HMRC no longer taxes UK dividends. You receive income in Dubai — with 0% tax, if structured correctly. We structure UAE companies and banking to ensure compliance under UAE laws — while protecting upstream capital flows.
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