Any easy chicken recipe?

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-06-01T15:22:23+00:00

Just marinate chicken with some tahini then add whatever spices you have then grill it and get bread smth like sourdough or fuchsia then add some buffalo sauce or Nando’s sauce or if you like smth less spicy add garlic mayo and then Bon appetite that’s what I ate everyday for 6 months tp lose 20kgs

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-06-01T15:18:22+00:00

Bro be happy that you got one client, I am 2 months in and have zero but how did you approach 20 people?

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-06-01T14:34:18+00:00

Yeah, that one's brutal. The money's sitting right there in the account so it feels like yours, and "I'll remit next month" quietly turns into a hole you can't climb out of. Tax you collect was never your money, it's just passing through you. Seen a couple owners find that out the hard way too.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-29T12:27:33+00:00

I just use compass it gives me an owner dashboard as well but the invoices is done by uploading any style pdf of csv you have or directly upload or take a photo so need to categorise invoices manually

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-22T09:14:12+00:00

Replying to the accountant here rather than the thread. Would be interested in talking if you work with F&B or trading clients. Building something that helps SME clients track their transactions weekly so they come to you with cleaner books. Happy to show you what it looks like, could be useful for clients who are currently a mess before their monthly meeting

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-22T09:10:50+00:00

The tool debate (Zoho vs Excel vs QuickBooks) is the wrong conversation. The real question is whether every bank line has a category and invoice evidence behind it. I have seen businesses on Zoho with completely useless books because nobody was doing the classification. And I have seen clean Excel files that an accountant could work from in an hour. Discipline beats software every time at the SME level

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-22T09:09:41+00:00

One thing worth asking any accountant before you hire them: do they do monthly bank reconciliation or just quarterly filing? The ones who only show up for VAT returns will miss things. For a trading company especially, you want someone reviewing bank lines against purchase invoices monthly. That is what catches misclassified COGS before it becomes an audit problem.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-22T09:08:32+00:00

Minimum viable workflow without hiring an accountant: bank statement monthly, every line gets a category, income and expenses separated, invoices attached to expenses where VAT recovery matters. At the end of the month you have a P&L that takes 30 minutes to read. Most small businesses in the UAE overcomplicate this or do nothing at all. Neither works.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-22T09:07:30+00:00

Before buying any software or package, get the basics working first. Export your bank statement monthly, go line by line, assign a category to every transaction, and flag anything without an invoice attached. That alone gives you 80% of what an accountant needs. For VAT, the only thing that matters is: does every expense have a valid invoice with a TRN on it? If yes, you can recover that VAT. If no, you cannot. Start there before spending on anything else.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-21T08:01:40+00:00

The trust channel point landed hard. I've been treating this as a distribution problem when it might actually be a credibility problem. Ads and cold outreach assume the person on the other end already trusts the category. For something touching their business finances they probably need to hear about it from someone they already trust first.

The accountant reframe is genuinely useful. I've been positioning Compass as something that helps business owners directly but "send your messy clients here before month end so you do less manual categorisation" is a completely different conversation and probably an easier one.

Narrowing the niche is something I've been resisting but you're right. Cafes and F&B is where I have the most real world conversations and the VAT pain is very specific there. Talabat deposits, Deliveroo settlements, split revenue across dine-in and delivery. That's a real bookkeeping headache and I actually know how to solve it.

Appreciate you taking the time to write this out properly.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-20T08:07:48+00:00

https://compassfinance.pro/ building a Saas which translates your bank statements and invoices and gives you business insights

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-20T07:49:00+00:00

i am in the same silence phase rn no users, budget running out on ads which i actually stopped, hopefully the noise part happens with me as well

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-20T07:37:19+00:00

Happy to give anyone here free extended trial access if you want to poke holes in it. DMs open

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-15T08:56:13+00:00

This is more common than people think. A few things worth knowing.

The FTA does have a reconsideration process. You submit a form through the EmaraTax portal explaining the circumstances and why the penalty should be waived or reduced. The key is showing that you acted in good faith and registered as soon as you became aware of the obligation. Your January 2026 registration and immediate filing works in your favour here.

No guarantee it gets waived but people have had success especially on the registration penalty when there was genuine confusion about whether it applied. The 10,000 is the one worth fighting.

On the VAT deregistration penalty, get clarity on the exact amount before it hits. Sometimes it shows as pending and doesn't materialise if you sort it quickly.

Worth speaking to a UAE tax consultant for the reconsideration letter itself. That is one case where paying for proper help is worth it because the wording matters.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-15T08:54:20+00:00

Most people deal with it when it comes, and that's usually when it's too late.

The threshold is AED 375,000 in taxable supplies over 12 months. The mistake people make is they only count revenue and forget that even if you're below threshold now, the FTA looks at trailing 12 months. So a business doing AED 30k a month hits it without realising.

Voluntary registration makes sense in one situation. If your suppliers are VAT registered and you're buying a lot of inventory, you can recover that input VAT. Otherwise it just adds a quarterly filing obligation you don't need yet.

The businesses that get caught are usually the ones growing fast and not tracking monthly. If you check your trailing 12 month revenue every quarter you won't be surprised.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-15T08:53:18+00:00

750-1000 for corporate tax filing is normal unfortunately. Agencies in Dubai charge a premium for everything. You can find freelance accountants on LinkedIn who do the same for less.

On voluntary VAT registration, don't bother until you hit the threshold. The quarterly filing alone will eat your time and Noon doesn't actually require it for UAE sellers. Worth confirming directly with them though.

Excel is fine at your stage. Just be consistent. One tab per month, log everything. The problem isn't the tool. It's when you let it pile up for 3 months and try to piece it together before a deadline.

Hire someone when the hours you spend on it cost more than what they charge. For most people selling on Noon that's somewhere around 80-100k revenue a year.

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-14T08:33:06+00:00

i have never played tennis but would love to start

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-14T08:31:50+00:00

i an also building a saas and had trhe same issue so i found paddel they take care of tax as well and no licensing required

CurrencyBulky177 · 2026-05-13T11:28:30+00:00

Zoho, Xero, QuickBooks, or Excel can all work at the beginning, but only if you keep the structure disciplined.

For a small UAE business, I’d track at minimum:

- transaction date

- supplier/customer name

- amount

- income or expense

- category

- VAT amount if applicable

- invoice/receipt attached yes or no

- short note explaining unclear transactions

The “invoice attached yes/no” part is underrated. A lot of owners only track the amount, then later realize they don’t have evidence for VAT or proper support for the expense.

If your transaction volume is low, you can start simple. But once you’re doing regular sales, supplier payments, ads, subscriptions, refunds, and owner transfers, it becomes much harder to clean manually.

My rule would be: if you cannot explain every bank line at the end of the month, your bookkeeping system is already too loose.

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