The UAE Capital Gains Tax Calculator confirms the most important fact about investing in the UAE: individuals pay 0% capital gains tax. Whether you sell shares, crypto or property held in a personal capacity, the gain is yours to keep in full. The tool makes that explicit, while also modelling the one situation where tax can arise — assets held inside a UAE company that falls under the 9% Corporate Tax.
How it works
The gain itself is straightforward:
Gain = sale proceeds − purchase cost − allowable costs (fees, improvements)For an individual, the tax on that gain is always AED 0, so the headline result is the net gain you keep. There is no holding-period discount and no annual exemption to track, because there is no tax to apply in the first place.
For an asset held inside a UAE company, the tool applies the post-June-2023 UAE Corporate Tax: 0% on profit up to AED 375,000 and 9% on profit above that. Because the threshold applies once across all profit, you can enter other business profit so the 9% is calculated on the correct portion of the gain. A participation exemption may make qualifying shareholdings exempt entirely, and free-zone qualifying income can be 0% — the tool notes these but cannot confirm eligibility.
Example
An individual selling shares for AED 500,000 that cost AED 350,000, with AED 5,000 of fees, has a gain of AED 145,000 and pays AED 0 in UAE tax. The same gain realised inside a company with no other profit falls below the AED 375,000 threshold, so it is also untaxed; only profit above that line attracts the 9% rate.
Notes
- The 0% UAE rate does not remove tax obligations in another country where you may be resident — check your home-country rules on worldwide gains.
- Selling property still incurs the Land Department transfer fee, which is a transaction cost, not a tax on the gain. All figures are computed in your browser and never uploaded.