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Muhammad Zohair Tahir

Joint Head of Tax and Audit Department

Office Lead, UAE

Advises businesses in Pakistan and the UAE on corporate and income tax, audit and compliance, drawing on Big Four experience at KPMG and Deloitte.

Muhammad Zohair Tahir is Joint Head of ALIPA's Tax and Audit department and leads the firm's office in the UAE. He advises on corporate tax, income tax, sales tax and audit, helping organisations meet their regulatory obligations and run their finances efficiently.

He is a partner at Kingsley Maybrook in Dubai and at Farooqi & Co. in Sialkot, and was previously a director at Premier UAE Accountants. Earlier he spent more than three years in audit and tax with KPMG in Pakistan, worked on business tax for Deloitte in the UAE, and trained at A. F. Ferguson & Co., a member of the PwC network.

He is ACCA-qualified, holds a master's in Accounting and Finance from the University of Strathclyde and a first-class BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, and has a Diploma in UAE Corporate Tax. He is a Fellow Member of the Emirates Association for Accountants and Auditors.

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Education

  • Diploma in UAE Corporate Tax, PwC Academy UAE, 2025
  • Master's in Accounting and Finance, University of Strathclyde, 2016
  • BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University, 2014, First-class honours

Languages

  • English
  • Urdu
  • Punjabi
  • Hindi

Memberships

  • ACCA
  • Emirates Association for Accountants and Auditors (Fellow)

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