Fahem Almusa, Auditor at Crowe Mak, Talks About Business Opportunities in Dubai
Fahem Almusa Auditor at Crowe Mak, Show notes
01:25 – Fahem, of Crowe Mak, shares his experiences about how Dubai opened business and economic opportunities
- Fahem came in Dubai around 1999 when Dubai was still putting infrastructures, roads, and free zones
- Fahem is now auditor at Crowe Maks
- Dubai is a multinational/cultural city because of foreign workers working for Dubai’s development
- Fahem also talks about the security for the people with different culture/religion
- Dubai is like New York as the “city that never sleeps Lockdowns in Dubai during pandemic and opening again on June 2020
6:17 – Where the trend is going for western institutional investors and what sectors should they look at
- Dubai is still booming and there is abundance of opportunities/projects to invest
- You don’t need to spend fortune to buy property whether it’s a residential or commercial
- The way of doing business in Dubai is western being the English is the main language and Arabic
is the second - Most of the large Middle Eastern companies are also located in Dubai
- If you work in Dubai, you don’t pay any tax
13:55 – How the Gulf states also extremely focused on alternative energy and climate initiatives
- Fahem of Crowe Mak says Dubai does not depend on oil. As Dubai is a commercial city, only 10-15% of the annual budget comes from oil. The main source of income is tourism
- Electric cars are increasingly popular in Dubai
- Plastic use has been minimized to lessen the environmental impact
- Dubai has strict guidelines in cars, zero emission as much as possible
18:01 – The shift where money is coming into the region rather than the oil money going out of the region
- There is a shift with money coming in and more big projects coming with other countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia
- Everything is negotiable with the government that’s why investors are flocking says Fahem of Crowe Mak
20:00 – Is economic growth possible despite ongoing conflicts in the Middle East?
- UAE doesn’t want to get involved with other countries’ conflict in the region says Fahem of Crowe Mak
- UAE is Switzerland of the Middle East
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