Corporate · Filing
Annual Return
A statutory filing made each year by a company confirming its registered details — directors, shareholders, registered office. Required in most common-law jurisdictions.
In practice
ADGM, DIFC, Singapore, BVI, Cayman and Panama all require annual returns. UAE free zones do not have a separate annual return filing (the trade-licence renewal covers the same ground). Non-filing leads to fines, strike-off and eventual dissolution.