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UAE in 60 words

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on. Most of the expats who ask us about UAE still have a filing footprint at home, and residence — not the address on the envelope — decides whether it stays open.

Who we act for here

Canadian, American and NRI professionals on Gulf packages, and founders using UAE entities as a regional hub.

Regional filing pattern

The absence of a local income tax return simplifies the calendar and complicates the analysis: relief by credit has nothing to work on, so residence decides the outcome.

The question that decides it

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file.

Working remotely from UAE

This page takes the UAE corridor and narrows it to one situation. The general position is on the UAE country guide; what follows is what changes for this specific case.

Working from UAE does not make your employer's income foreign, and it does not make your own income exempt. Tax follows where the work is performed, which means the country the laptop is in has a claim regardless of where the logo is.

The team reviewing a file together at a desk

Transparent, fixed pricing for working remotely from UAE

Working remotely from UAE is quoted on two things: whether your employer kept running home payroll withholding after you left, and how many years have gone by without the residence position being settled. One clean year with the payroll stopped is a short file; several years with tax still deducted at home is not. Fixed fee, agreed in writing first.

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

A personal filing built from your own documents — employment, investment and rental income across borders, with the treaty position set out.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.
See the fee schedule

Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Arrival and departure years priced as one engagement, with the part-year residence position and the assets deemed disposed of on exit.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Disclosure of assets and interests held abroad, built once from a single asset list and filed on every side that asks for it.
See the fee schedule

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Bringing an unfiled history current: which years are still open, which programme applies, and what the exposure is before you commit.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Corporate returns with foreign income, related-party reporting and cross-border structures, for companies of any size.
See the fee schedule

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Documentation for transactions between related companies: the method, the comparables and the file an authority asks to see.
See the fee schedule

Estate & trust filing

From $799

fixed, quoted before work starts

Cross-border estates and trusts, from the reporting on the assets to the returns the beneficiaries then have to file.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — one page, every published fee, nothing quoted as a vague bracket.

Do you still file at home?

The honest answer is that moving to UAE changes nothing automatically. Canada stops taxing worldwide income only when the ties actually end; the United States never stops while the citizenship or the card is held; India tests days rather than intentions. Each of those is established on evidence rather than assertion.

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file.

Residency and the tie-breaker

Where both countries claim you as a resident for the same period, a treaty — if one is in force between UAE and your home country — resolves it with an ordered set of tests: permanent home first, then centre of vital interests, then habitual abode, then nationality, with agreement between the two authorities as the final step. The case is built around whichever test decides it, which is why the evidence is assembled before the return rather than after a query.

Because treaty text moves, we establish the operative version for your year first. That includes protocols and any change made through the multilateral instrument, both of which can alter an article that older summaries still quote in its original form.

Income by type: who taxes what

Income typeGeneral treatment
Royalties on software or know-howDepends on how the payment is characterised; treaty definitions of royalty differ, and some exclude particular categories entirely.
Social security and state pensionsTreated differently from private pensions in most treaties, and sometimes reserved entirely to one state.
Gain on selling your former home at homeThe relief that exempted it while you lived there is usually time-limited once you leave, and the clock is not always the one people expect.
Employment equity (options, units)Sourced across the period between grant and vest, so two countries can tax slices of one gain.
Interest on local depositsGenerally taxed where it arises by withholding, with the home country taxing the same interest and allowing credit for what was withheld.
Business profits from a local branchTaxable locally only to the extent attributable to a permanent establishment, computed as if the branch dealt at arm's length with the head office.
Directors' feesFrequently covered by their own treaty article and taxed where the company is resident, which can differ from where the meetings were held.

The local nuance

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file. General guides stop before this, which is exactly why it is worth establishing early rather than discovering at filing.

If your position runs mostly in one direction, the Canada ↔ UAE cross-border tax page carries both filing calendars side by side, the treaty article by article, and the withholding table.

We also publish regional pages for UAE — states, provinces and major centres — at our UAE regional index, which is the better starting point if your question is about a specific state or province rather than the country as a whole.

What this looks like with numbers

It is easier to see with numbers attached.

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$79,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 23% on it and the home country would charge 42% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$79,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 23%)C$18,170
Home tax on the same income (assumed 42%)C$33,180
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$18,170
Home tax still payableC$15,010

The credit absorbs C$18,170 and leaves C$15,010 payable at home, because the home rate on this income is the higher of the two. The balance is real cash and it is due on the home timetable, which is why instalments get raised in the first meeting. The interesting question is where your own figures fall relative to that, which is a computation rather than an opinion.

Illustrative figures, not a client engagement: the amounts are chosen to make the mechanism legible, and the rates and thresholds are assumptions stated for the example only. We confirm every one of them against the issuing authority for your own tax year before anything is filed.

Where these files go wrong

  1. Treating a residence permit or a visa category as a tax answer. Immigration status and tax residence are decided by different tests.
  2. Filing the two returns in the wrong order, so the credit is computed before the foreign liability it is meant to relieve is known.
  3. Applying for a certificate after the payment or the closing instead of before it, which turns a rate reduction into a refund claim.
  • Documents move through an access-controlled portal rather than email.
  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file; we take the cross-border piece, with the boundary in writing.
  • A named reviewer signs off every statutory filing.

Bring last year's returns and we will tell you what is missing.

Reviewed for accuracy for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. Written as general guidance, not as a recommendation for your situation. Talk it through with us before acting on it.

UAE tax year, in practice

The search that brings most people to this page is UAE tax year. It is answered here for working remotely from UAE: what creates the obligation, which filings discharge it, and the fee agreed before the work starts.

People also search for: form 2555 · how to claim foreign tax credit · us tax treaties · foreign tax credit carryover · tax treaty benefits.

Canadian, American and NRI professionals on Gulf packages, and founders using UAE entities as a regional hub.

The four phases of the work

  1. Share your documents

    A secure upload link arrives after the first call — send files in any state.

  2. A written fixed fee

    The quote is fixed from what you send; it does not move once accepted.

  3. Preparation, both sides at once

    The returns are drafted together, reconciled line against line.

  4. Approve, then file

    Nothing is filed until you have seen it and approved it.

What you are actually buying with working remotely from UAE

Factor Legal Quotient Hourly billing model
Pricing A fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts Hourly, billed as incurred
Experience 15+ years of cross-border work, 18,000+ clients Varies by file
Both sides of the border Prepared together by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once One country at a time, reconciled later
Who reviews it A named practitioner, published on the page Whoever the queue reaches
Where the work happens Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE Whichever single office you can travel to

The vocabulary this page leans on

Non-resident
A person outside a country's residence rules, taxable there only on income arising in that country — usually collected by withholding rather than by assessment.
Section 247 penalty
Canada's transfer-pricing penalty, which contemporaneous documentation is designed to prevent. It sits on top of the adjustment, not instead of it.
FCNR account
A foreign-currency deposit for non-residents, which removes rupee exchange risk and has its own tax and repatriation treatment.
Secure portal
An access-controlled channel for tax documents, used because tax records are the most sensitive papers most people own.

The published fees closest to working remotely from UAE

These published fees cover the individual side. Where the work from UAE is done through your own company rather than an employer, the file grows: the entity's own position, the question of where it is managed from, and the payroll trail behind any salary drawn all have to be looked at before either return is prepared.

Payroll & mobility setup

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.

See this fee page

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: A personal filing built from your own documents — employment, investment and rental income across borders, with the treaty position set out.

See this fee page

Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Arrival and departure years priced as one engagement, with the part-year residence position and the assets deemed disposed of on exit.

See this fee page

Why clients bring working remotely from UAE to us

We say early if it is not our work

If a file needs something this practice does not do, you hear that at the start rather than after a bill.

Every figure on a page is traceable

Where a rate or a threshold appears in our writing it names the tax year it belongs to. Where it could not be confirmed, the page describes the mechanism and quotes no number.

4 global offices

Meet us in person in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE, or send everything through the secure portal — the same process either way.

The quote comes from your documents

Nothing is priced from a phone call. We read what you have first, then the fee is set — so the scope and the number are agreed on the same evidence.

The team at work in the open-plan office

From first call to filed return

Step 1

The opening call

We establish what happened and when, because every position here is anchored to a date

Step 2

Scope in writing

A written scope and a fixed price, so you know the cost before committing

Step 3

Prepared and checked

The filings are prepared, cross-checked against each other, and reviewed by name

Step 4

Filed, then supported

You see the result, approve it, and we file it

Two of the firm’s advisers and the team in the open-plan office

The engagement, start to finish

  • Step 1: Send the documents as they are – No tidying required — forward what you have and we tell you what is missing.
  • Step 2: Get a fixed quote in writing – Priced from your actual documents before any work begins, not estimated after.
  • Step 3: Both countries prepared together – One team builds the filings against each other so the relief lands exactly once.
  • Step 4: Review, then file – You approve the finished work before we file it.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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More of the same work, from other angles

Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.

Services these clients use most

Form T1255 — principal residence (deceased) The full guide to t1255 principal residence deceased, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Treaty-based structuring reviews Its own page: treaty-based structuring reviews — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
NRI Indian return — do you need to declare foreign assets? Everything on do NRI need to declare foreign assets in India, at the same depth as this page.
Advance pricing agreements in India Advance pricing agreements in India — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Canada–US estate tax treaty relief The full guide to Canada–US estate tax treaty relief, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Employment income — the treaty article Its own page: employment income treaty article — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Corresponding adjustment via MAP Everything on corresponding adjustment via map, at the same depth as this page.
GIFT City & IFSC structures Gift city & IFSC structures — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form NR5 — reduced Part XIII withholding The full guide to nr5 reduced part xiii withholding, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

Clients who arrive with this exact page

Oil & gas rotational workers — relief you're probably missing The full guide to oil & gas rotational workers relief you're probably missing, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for short-term rental hosts Its own page: short-term rental hosts tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Amazon FBA sellers — what we charge Everything on amazon fba sellers what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Touring musicians — what you owe in each country Touring musicians what you owe in each country — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Management consultants — what we charge The full guide to management consultants what we charge, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for civil & structural engineers Its own page: civil & structural engineers tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for day traders Everything on day traders tax, at the same depth as this page.
Management consultants — relief you're probably missing Management consultants relief you're probably missing — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax for architects The full guide to architects tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

The corridors we work every week

Retiring in Italy — pensions & withholding The full guide to retiring in Italy, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Canada–Singapore tax corridor Its own page: Canada Singapore tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Buying or selling property in Italy Everything on buying or selling property in Italy, at the same depth as this page.
Working remotely from United States Working remotely from United States — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Moving to Spain — the tax year you leave The full guide to moving to Spain, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Canada–Germany tax corridor Its own page: Canada Germany tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Retiring in India — pensions & withholding Everything on retiring in India, at the same depth as this page.
Moving back from Australia — re-establishing residency Moving back from Australia — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Moving to UAE — the tax year you leave The full guide to moving to UAE, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

The people on your file

Five named practitioners, each with the part of a cross-border file they carry. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

Udit Gupta

Udit Gupta

Cross-Border Tax Expert

CA (ICAI), In-Depth Tax Trained

Reviews and signs off the practice's cross-border positions, and carries final responsibility for the treaty analysis on every file that leaves the office.

Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta

Canada Tax / International Tax

Canada Tax, International Tax, Cross-Border Tax, Transfer Pricing

Canadian returns with foreign income, non-resident filings, and the transfer-pricing documentation that runs alongside intercompany work.

Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta

International Tax

International Tax, Transfer Pricing Specialist

Benchmarking, method selection and the local-file and master-file sets that support a group's pricing policy under examination.

Anmol Mittal

Anmol Mittal

Canada and US tax

CPA Canada, CPA USA, CA (ICAI)

Files that have to be right on both sides of the border at once — dual filings, streamlined catch-ups, and the foreign tax credit reconciliation between them.

Vinayak Indolia

Vinayak Indolia

CFO advisory

CPA, CA. Fractional CFO and Senior Advisory Specialist

Groups that need the tax position and the finance function to agree: structure reviews, intercompany policy, and the reporting a board can act on.

Meet the whole team

Cross-border situations we are engaged for

Case study 1

US Estate Tax on Assets a Canadian Did Not Know Were Exposed

US shares and US real estate sit inside the US estate tax net regardless of where the owner lives. The treaty provides relief that is proportionate rather than automatic, and the calculation depends on the worldwide estate.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Withheld at the Statutory Rate When a Treaty Rate Applied

Where withholding has already gone out at the full domestic rate, the treaty rate is recovered rather than applied. The file establishes entitlement for each payment, then puts the documentation in place so the following year runs at the correct rate from the start.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Paying a Dividend Up to a Foreign Parent

The withholding rate depends on the treaty, on the size of the holding, and on whether the parent is the beneficial owner rather than a conduit. Establishing all three before the payment is what secures the lower rate at source.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

One Salary, Two Countries Claiming It

A US citizen resident in Canada, taxed in full on both sides because each return was prepared without the other in view. Deciding which country has the first right to the income, then claiming relief on the second return in the right order, is what stops the same dollar being taxed twice.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Withholding Reduced by the Right Article

Dividends, interest and royalties each have their own article and their own rate, and the payer applies whichever it is satisfied of. Establishing entitlement before payment is what secures the lower rate at source.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

Which Country Taxes the Salary

The employment article turns on where the work is done, who pays, and who bears the cost — three tests that can point in different directions. The file establishes all three before either return is drafted.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

Social Security Contributions Owed in Two Countries at Once

A totalization agreement assigns contributions to one system and exempts the other, but only against a certificate obtained in advance. Without it both sets come out of the same salary and neither is straightforward to recover.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

A Foreign Subsidiary That Nobody Had Been Reporting

Owning a company abroad triggers an information return separate from the corporate return, with its own penalty. The work is the surplus and income computations behind it, which also determine how a future dividend is taxed on the way home.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

How and where the work is delivered

Every link below is a full page of its own — the same depth as this one, for its own subject.

Where the work is delivered

More coverage detail

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.

Treaty residency & tie-breaker
FATCA reporting (Form 8938)
Foreign tax credit (Form 1116)
Multi-country filing calendar
Real estate holding structures
International tax planning
Pre-immigration tax planning
Family office structures
One coordinating team: filings on every side of the border are sequenced so treaty relief and foreign tax credits are claimed once — and in the right country.

U.S. & Cross-Border Tax Returns

Form 1040 from abroad
US state non-resident returns
FBAR (FinCEN 114) filing
Form 5472 — foreign-owned US corp
FIRPTA withholding (Form 8288)
US estate tax exposure
IRS streamlined foreign offshore
PFIC reporting (Form 8621)
Dual filers: U.S. citizens in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income run two parallel systems — we prepare both, in the right order, every year.

Expat & Emigration Tax

Departure tax leaving Canada
T1161 properties on emigration
Residency planning
Step-up in cost base on arrival
Split-year residency
Employment income under a treaty
Social security totalization
Returning to Canada after years abroad
The move year is its own project: the elections and valuations filed that year decide the next decade of both countries’ returns.

Non-Resident Canadian Tax

Section 216 rental return
NR4 & NR6 withholding
Section 217 pension return
Section 116 clearance certificate
Regulation 105 waiver
Non-resident employment income
Taxable Canadian property
Part XIII withholding review
Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

s.247 contemporaneous documentation
Functional & risk analysis
Benchmarking study
Intercompany agreements
Country-by-country report
BEPS & Pillar Two
Permanent establishment risk
TP audit defence file
Documentation prepared with the return is the cheapest insurance in international tax; reconstructing it during an audit is the most expensive.

Cross-Border Estates & Trusts

Cross-border wills
US estate tax for non-resident aliens
Terminal return & clearance certificate
Non-resident trusts (s.94)
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting
Inheriting property abroad
Graduated rate estates
Post-mortem planning & pipeline
Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

Entity selection across borders
Business profits & PE
Intercompany loans & thin cap
Paying dividends to a foreign parent
Global mobility & day tracking
Debt vs equity funding
Branch or subsidiary
Cross-border M&A due diligence
Expansion raises the same four questions every time — entity, PE, repatriation, payroll. We answer them before the tax authorities do.

India Tax for NRIs & Returning Residents

NRI residency day tests
NRE, NRO & FCNR accounts
TDS on property (s.195)
Lower or nil TDS certificate
Repatriating sale proceeds
Capital gains on Indian shares
India–Canada DTAA
ITR-2 for NRIs
The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.

Canadian Tax with a Foreign Element

T1135 foreign property
T1134 foreign affiliates
Departure tax
Newcomer's first return
Returning to Canada
Split-year residency
US citizens in Canada
Canada–US corridor
Residency is decided on facts, not on a form — and the year you arrive or leave is the one where the largest amounts turn on the smallest details.

UAE Tax for Expats & Their Home Country

Expat tax in the UAE
Moving to the UAE
Moving back from the UAE
UAE property purchases
Retiring in the UAE
Canada–UAE corridor
India–UAE DTAA
US–UAE corridor
A zero-tax country is only half the answer — the question that decides the bill is whether the country you came from still treats you as resident.

Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
Professional Services Firms
Cross-Border Real Estate
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
Investment Funds & Holding Companies

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces

Technology & SaaS

Software revenue crosses borders by default — sourcing rules, withholding on licence-like payments and IP location decide the effective rate.

Software revenue is rarely taxed where the team sits. Licence, subscription and service income are characterised differently by each side, and the answer decides withholding at source, treaty relief and whether a foreign customer creates a taxable presence at all — questions that are cheap to settle before the contract and expensive afterwards.

  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS

Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing

Athletes, Artists & Entertainers

  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers

Remote Workers & Digital Nomads

  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers

Investment Funds & Holding Companies

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

UAE — questions we are asked

Do I have to file at home while living in UAE?

Residence decides it, and residence is a question of facts rather than of where your post arrives. The one exception is US citizenship, which carries the filing obligation with the person wherever they go. So the first thing we establish is which system still claims you.

Is there a treaty between my country and UAE?

Treaty networks change with each protocol and each multilateral-instrument position, so we confirm the treaty in force for your specific year with the issuing authority rather than relying on a published summary. Where there is none, unilateral relief and domestic law do the work instead.

I own property in UAE. Where is the rent taxed?

In UAE, because that is where the property sits. The complication is the base: gross-rent withholding takes no account of mortgage interest, tax or repairs, so a leveraged property can face tax on turnover. An election onto net profit, where it exists, is what fixes that — and it has its own timing.

Can I contribute to an IRA on income I excluded?

No, and this is a real cost of the exclusion. A contribution needs taxable compensation, and income excluded under Form 2555 is not taxable compensation — so an American abroad who excludes their whole salary can have no contribution room at all, traditional or Roth. Someone who instead claims the foreign tax credit keeps the income in the base and keeps the room. It is one of several reasons to model both routes rather than default to the exclusion. See exclusion against credit.

Who qualifies for US tax treaty benefits?

A resident of the other treaty country, under that treaty's residence article, who is the beneficial owner of the income and who satisfies any limitation-on-benefits test the treaty contains. Nationality is not the test and neither is where the bank is. Note the trap in the other direction: a US citizen living in the treaty country generally cannot use the treaty to reduce US tax, because the saving clause preserves the US claim over its own citizens. See our treaty work.

How does a foreign tax credit carryover work?

Credit you could not use because of the limitation does not disappear. It carries back one year and then forward, within its own category and tracked year by year, and is applied after the current year's credit — oldest first. Two things kill it in practice: no Form 1116 in the year the excess arose, so nothing was ever computed; and no foreign income in that category later, so there is no limitation to absorb it. See Form 1116.

Tax terms explained

Business purpose testVirtual digital assetForm 5471Saving clauseZero-rated supplyThin capitalisationGST/HSTReverse charge183-day ruleTNMMTransfer pricingSecond opinionTax homeGrossing up Browse the full A–Z glossary

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Fixed fees

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