BridgingBusinessesAcross Borders

FCCAUAE Chartered AccountantFTA-Approved Tax Agent

Cross-Border Tax, Business Setup and Structuring: UAE, Canada, USA

I am a chartered accountant with practices in Dubai and Canada. I help founders set up and run businesses across borders. I also train accountants to do this work.

  • FCCA (UK)
  • · UAE Chartered Accountant
  • · FTA-Approved Tax Agent
  • · Practices in Dubai & Canada
  • · 10+ years
  • · 1,000+ businesses
Downtown financial-district towers rising on either side of an open channel of sky

Most advisers knowone country.Your problem lives in two.

A Dubai consultant who has never dealt with CRA. A Canadian accountant who has never seen a free zone licence. Neither is doing a bad job. The expensive mistakes happen in the space between them: the Dubai company that quietly creates a Canadian tax bill. The incorporation done before anyone checked where you would be resident. The year-end rebuilt from scratch.

Most accountants are never taught that space either. Cross-border work and AI in the finance function are the two skills clients now expect, and almost nobody teaches them together.

I work in that gap, on both sides.For founders, I handle it. For accountants, I teach it.

Helping businesses scale through strategy, systems, and execution.

Most advisors handle one part of the puzzle. I align the structure, the tax position, and the growth systems, so your business can scale across borders without rework later.

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01

Business Setup: UAE, Canada, USA

“Open the company. Move the life. In the right order.”

  • UAE (Dubai): free zone vs mainland, trade licence and registration, visas, bank account opening, office and address requirements
  • Canada: federal and provincial incorporation, structures for people who do not yet live in Canada, and business immigration planned alongside the company. Immigration advice is delivered by a licensed RCIC I work with.
  • USA: LLC and C-Corp formation, EIN, registered agent, holding structures

From $4,000

Send an inquiry (free)
02

Cross-Border Tax & Structuring

“Live in one country, earn in another, and pay tax once. This is the work I am known for.”

  • Working out which country actually taxes you
  • Owning a company abroad while living somewhere else
  • Holding companies and group structure: when they help, and when they just add cost
  • Moving countries: what you owe on the way out and on the way in
  • Restructuring a setup that no longer fits, including ownership and shareholding changes

Structuring Review: $500 · 60 minutes with written summary

Book the Structuring Review · $500
03

Taxes, Bookkeeping & Compliance

“Filed on time, in both countries, without you chasing anyone.”

  • Bookkeeping: monthly books kept properly in both systems, AI-assisted so your numbers are current rather than six weeks old, plus year-end accounts (audit support in the UAE where required)
  • UAE: corporate tax registration and filing, VAT registration and returns
  • Canada: T2 corporate returns, personal tax for owners, GST/HST, and handling CRA when they ask questions

Bookkeeping from $500/month

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AI Training & Firm GrowthTrain Smarter.Grow Bigger.

I train accountants to use AI in daily work, and I help firm owners grow. Everything I teach already runs inside our practices in Dubai and Canada.

Better tools.Stronger firms.A bigger tomorrow.

Branch A: AI Training for Accountants & Finance Teams

  • Use AI for bookkeeping, reconciliations and month-end close
  • Cross-border basics: the questions clients actually ask
  • Read financial statements properly and spot what matters
  • Move from data-entry work to advisory work
  • Top trainees get hands-on experience inside our practices in Dubai and Canada. Real client work, not classroom exercises.

Branch B: Grow your Accounting Firm (for firm owners)

More clients, smaller team, better fees.

  • Use AI so your small team can handle more clients
  • Decide which services to offer, and which ones to stop
  • Set the right prices for your services
  • Turn one-time tax clients into monthly paying clients
  • Fix how work gets done so nothing depends on you alone

Same Expertise. A Different Audience.

Who This Is For(And Who It Is Not)

Different Situations.The Right Support.

This fits you if:

  • You are setting up in the UAE or Canada for the first time and do not yet know which is right
  • You are relocating, and the tax consequences are unclear
  • You already run companies in two countries and want one adviser instead of two who never speak
  • You own something abroad and are not certain your home country reporting is clean
  • You are an accountant who wants to move from processing work into advisory work
  • You run a practice or a finance team and want AI doing the repetitive work properly

It is probably not a fit if:

  • You want the cheapest possible incorporation with no advice attached
  • You have already settled on the structure and just want a sign-off. I will tell you what I actually think first, and sometimes that is "not yet".
  • You need the answer this afternoon. A structure worth having takes a proper look at residency, ownership and banking.
How IWork

My strategic process designed to deliver sustainable growth.

You will always know what we are doing, why it matters, and what happens next.

Step 01

Strategy call

goals, timeline, target country, and the risks flagged early: residency, banking readiness, tax exposure

Alignment Phase
Step 02

Structure design

entity type, ownership, holding setup, registrations, compliance requirements

Structure Phase
Step 03

Implementation

setup, documentation, bank account preparation, tax registrations

Implementation Phase
Step 04

Systems and reporting

books, month-end and reporting set up properly in both jurisdictions, with AI handling the repetitive parts

Systems Phase
Step 05

Review and realign

the structure gets revisited as you grow, before small gaps become expensive ones

Review Phase
Step 06

Long-term partnership

a steady point of contact for the next decision, the next market, the next stage

Partnership Phase
TrustExperience & Cross-Border Practice

Credentialed where it counts, on the ground in both.

Haseeb Hamdani, Director, Accounting & Taxation, seated in his office
UAECanada

FCCA from the UK. UAE Chartered Accountant. FTA-Approved Tax Agent, approved by the UAE Federal Tax Authority to represent taxpayers before it. Over ten years in practice and more than 1,000 business owners worked with, most of them operating across borders.

Bestax operates in both countries, as Bestax Chartered Accountants in Dubai and Bestax Accountants in Canada: one accounting, tax and advisory firm across two jurisdictions. As Director, Accounting & Taxation, I set the direction. Dedicated teams in each country run day-to-day delivery.

  • FCCAFrom the UK
  • UAECharteredAccountant
  • FTAApprovedTax Agent
Years in practice
10+Years in practice
Business owners worked with
1,000+Business ownersworked with
Jurisdictions (UAE & Canada)
2Jurisdictions(UAE & Canada)
Most advisers only ever see one country.I work in two every week.
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Client SuccessStories

Real partnerships. Real growth. Real impact.

Haseeb Hamdani working at his laptop

Haseeb helped us understand the right structure before moving into a new market. His advice was clear, practical, and focused on the long-term impact of tax, banking, and compliance.

— Samantha Goldwill

FAQ

Questions worth answering before you move.

It depends on where you live, where your customers are, and where you will bank. Dubai is not automatically cheaper. If you live in Canada, a Dubai company can create Canadian reporting that cancels out the saving.

Yes, through a licensed RCIC I work with. Immigration advice in Canada has to come from someone licensed. I handle the business and tax side alongside it, planned together.

Calls are paid, from $300 for 30 minutes. Prefer to write first? The inquiry form is free and I will reply with next steps. Starting prices are listed on each service page. The final figure depends on the countries involved, the number of entities, and whether anything needs fixing first. You get a clear number after the first conversation, never a surprise invoice.

Yes. Many clients keep their local accountant for filings and use me for cross-border decisions.

The UAE Federal Tax Authority has approved me to represent taxpayers before it. Not every accountant offering UAE tax services holds it.

Both. Individual accountants and in-house finance teams take the training. Practice owners also get advisory on how the practice runs.

Yes. The USA regularly, and other jurisdictions where the cross-border question is the real issue.