16/10/2026
Most organizations know their financial records have to be kept. Far fewer can say how long each category must be held and when that period actually starts counting.
Under UAE tax law, corporate tax records are kept for seven years after the end of the tax period, VAT records for five years, and VAT records relating to real estate for fifteen. Sector regulators and company law add obligations of their own on top of these.
A retention schedule turns those periods into rules applied to each document type, so every record is held for as long as the law requires and flagged for review once that period ends.
EDC builds retention rules into the document management system when the archive is set up.
Learn more → https://edc.ae/en/solutions/document-management-solutions/document-management-system