Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain (FSCM) is Microsoft’s flagship and most capable ERP solution. With advanced functionality, superior architecture and single source application, D365 FO is the natural choice for larger enterprises who often demand multi-site, multi-country, multi-lingual capabilities.
We have had a rich history of success with large international organisations implementing its predecessor Microsoft Dynamics AX, and D365 FSCM takes the power of AX to a different level!
It provides accessibility – anywhere, anytime via a browser-based user experience that enables users to access the system from any location and on any device.
Functionality includes: Finance (GL, AR, AP, Cash and Bank, FA, Budgets, Costing,) Sales, Purchasing, Planning, Advanced Warehouse Management, Discrete, Process and Lean Manufacturing, Master planning ATP and CATP, Retail, Project Management and Accounting, Asset Management, and Public Sector. modules. This is supported by numerous reports and dashboards and an in built Financial Reporter tool, and in built tools for case management, and workflow management.
As a Microsoft solution there is already integration with Azure technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 office productivity tools, Power apps and Power Bi, SharePoint and much more, all wrapped around with Microsoft security and platform management .
In addition, there are also numerous Apps available which extend the standard functionality and provide additional ISV and vertical solutions for example Synergy offers its own:
GCC localised HR and Payroll further enhanced with BI Dashboards, and automated PRO and employee self service processes.
A comprehensive Real Estate solution.
If you are looking for an enterprise multi county ERP system, or seeking to move upwards and onwards from Dynamics Ax, Dynamics GP or NAV, or other ERP systems the you will appreciate all that FSCM has to offer. However, you might just be a little nervous of how go forward with a multi company system, how long will take, how much will it cost and million other questions.
Synergy Software Systems is the oldest partner in the region and was the first Gold Partner for Dynamics Ax. We have a large mature team of consultants, professionally certified by Microsoft, who have helped guide other enterprises faced with the same challenges. Consultants are based here in Dubai, and we have a manned helpdesk through our working hours – one reason we received the Highest Customer Satisfaction Award from Microsoft.
Put your worries behind you and seize the future and call us on 0097143365589 for impartial, informed advice.
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Microsoft Copilot is a digital companion for a single Copilot user experience across Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, and Windows.
Over the past few years, the pace and volume of work have increased. On a given workday, users typically search for what they need 18 times, receive over 250 Outlook emails, and send or read around 150 Teams chats. Teams users globally are in three times more meetings each week than they were in 2020. In Windows, some people use 11 apps in a single day to get their work done. Microsoft 365 Chat will help everyone lift the weight of work.
Last week’s announcement in New York impacts all the product line-up for commercial customers:
Microsoft Copilot in Windows to create faster and to complete tasks with ease and make once-complicated tasks simple. Find it on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut, to get assistance alongside all your apps. Copilot in Windows will feature the new Copilot icon, the new Copilot user experience, Bing Chat, and will be available to commercial customers for free.
Bing Chat Enterprise builds on Microsoft Copilot and adds commercial data protection. Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and your data is not used to train the large language models (LLM). Bing Chat Enterprise is available as a standalone for $5 per user per month and is included in Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5. Bing Chat Enterprise is now available in the Microsoft Edge mobile app and Microsoft is bringing support for multimodal visual search and Image Creator to Bing Chat Enterprise. Bing Chat Enterprise is already part of Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium, which means more than 160 million people already have access.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant at work. It builds on Bing Chat Enterprise and includes enterprise-grade security, privacy, compliance. This responsible AI ensures that all data processing happens inside your proven Microsoft 365 tenant
. Microsoft 365 Chat is the new experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and goes far beyond simple questions and answers. It combs across your entire universe of data—all your emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more, plus the web—to solve your most complex problems at work. It’s integrated into the Microsoft 365 Apps:Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for enterprise customers for $30 per user per month on 1 November 2023.
Copilot in Outlook helps you stayon top of your inbox and create impactful communication in a fraction of the time.:
Ask Copilot to summarize an email thread to get key information with annotations that help you quickly jump to the source of the summarized content, and suggested action items, replies, and follow-up meetings.
Choose “Sound like me” tomatch your unique writing style and voice when you’re using Copilot to draft an email.
Follow a Teams meeting that you could not attend live, directly from Outlook on your own time. When the meeting starts, Teams notifies participants to record it. When the recording is ready, Copilot notifies you in Outlook.
Copilot in Word transforms every part of the writing process to make you more creative and efficient::
Ask Copilot for a summary of any document to share as a recap or quickly get up to speed, and Copilot will now deliver a more in-depth bulleted summation with all the information you need.
Ask Copilot to “rewrite” a paragraph, then scroll through a series of options to see what fits best. You can then adjust the rewrite tone to make it more neutral, casual, or professional.
Refine a prompt by asking Copilot to do things like “make answer more concise” or “add a column in the table for the project owner.”
Save time on formatting by asking Copilot to generate a table from your copy.
Copilot in Excel enables anyone to analyze and visualize data like a data analyst. :
with Copilot in Excel to help analyze, format, and edit your data to gain deeper understanding and insights.
Quickly add a formula column, highlight key data with a prompt like “make all cells red where the value is under 1000,” filter and sort your data, and ask questions to instantly uncover key insights.
Use Copilot to access advanced analytics; create powerful, professional visualizations, generate forecasts, and save time sorting through data with Python in Excel.
Copilot in Loop unlocks the power of shared thinking,helping teams cocreate, stay up to date, and pick up where others left off. :
Iterate with Copilot collaboratively as a team, cocreating prompts and reviewing earlier interactions to edit and improve on work together.
Ask Copilot to generate a quick table on the page to help organize team projects. You can easily turn the table into a Loop component to share with teammates wherever they’re working—in Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Whiteboard, and Word on the web.
Quickly catch up where your teammates left off by asking Copilot for a summary of a page or asking open-ended questions like “What key assignments were made since I was last on this page?”
Generate a recap for a teammate that you’re handing work off to, so they can get up to speed on any updates or changes.
Save time writing code with Copilot-suggested Code blocks that pop up automatically using the context of your work.
Copilot in OneNote helps you stay organized, prepared, and ready to take action. :
Gain deeper insights on your notes by asking comprehensive questions like: “What are the pros and cons of this process?”
Quickly generate summaries of your OneNote content.
Type just a few sentences and get a Copilot-generated paragraph, bulleted list, or organized section.
Make your writing clearer and more effective with a quick Copilot edit.
Copilot in Stream helps you find the insights and information you need from a video—in the Microsoft Stream web app or anywhere Stream videos work across Microsoft 365 apps—in seconds. :
Get a quick summary of the video with a transcript of the relevant spots you need to review.
Ask Copilot open-ended questions—“What was the discussion outcome?” “How did the site walkthrough go?”—to quickly understand outcomes and key points.
Ask Copilot to identify when people, teams, or topics are discussed, then jump right to that point in the video.
Ask Copilot for suggested follow-ups or actions from a video you missed.
Copilot in OneDrive helps you find all the insights and information you need—without ever opening a file. Now you can:
Ask Copilot open-ended questions related to an individual file or get a summary of the content.
Copilot in Windows
In May, we announced that Copilot was coming to Windows 11. Copilot in Windows—in preview starting September 26—empowers you to create faster, complete tasks with ease, and lessens your cognitive load—making once complicated tasks, simple. We’ve made accessing the power of Copilot seamless as it’s always right there for you on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut providing assistance alongside all your apps, on all screen sizes at work, school, or at home.
MANAGING COPILOT IN WINDOWS
To help bring Copilot to more people across more organizations, Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch will also be available in this update, making it easier than ever to get a full, secure, personalized Windows 365 Cloud PC with Copilot—on any device.
Usernames and passwords of billions of users have been exposed online after the digital risk protection company DarkBeam left an online database unprotected.
Unfortunately over 3.8 billion user records were accessible to anyone during the period in which the database was exposed. The leaked email addresses and passwords contained on the database actually came from previous data breaches. Ionically DarkBeam had collected this information to alert its customers in regards to future data breaches, though it’s highly likely that this leak will affect non-customers as well.
Any such leak contains usernames and passwords from both reported and unreported data breaches, and there is a chance that your login credentials could be compromised, even though you had never heard of DarkBeam. it’s likely that hackers downloaded it to use in future attacks. For instance, they could use exposed email addresses in targeted phishing attacks. It’s more likely that cybercriminals with this data will try and use the usernames and passwords at a number of different sites to see if any of the victims reused the same passwords. Password reuse is a big problem and when you use the same password and username for multiple accounts, hackers use stolen credentials to login to your other accounts. Create strong, complex , unique for all of your accounts.
If that is not bad enough there is also a new open-source Windows malware Exela Stealer uses Discord to send stolen data back to hackers. Besides stealing login credentials, personal data and financial information, the malware can also steal session details from popular apps and online services including social media and gaming platforms. Once downloaded on a computer, Exela’s builder will run when there is a compatible version of Python (version 3.10.0 or 3.11.0) is installed on the machine and the builder can create a.exe file.
When the malware’s builder batch file inside the Exela setup folder is executed, a Discord webhook URL is required, and when a victim doesn’t provide this URL, an error message is displayed until they do. The Exela Stealer uses this Discord webhook URL to act as a remote server for the hackers who deployed the malware. to send all of a victim’s stolen data back to the hackers.
After installation on a victim’s PC, Exela Stealer persists by copying itself into a new directory in the local app data folder. It adds a startup entry in Windows Registry so that the malware continues to run even after the infected PC is rebooted.
Exela Stealer then targets any Chromium-based web browsers like Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi that are installed on a victim’s computer. Besides credentials, the malware can also steal credit card information, cookies and other browser data while logging keypresses and taking screenshots of the system. Exela Stealer can steal l info from social media platforms including Instagram, X, TikTok and Reddit along with data from both Steam and Roblox.Stolen data is sent back to the hackers behind Exela Stealer who can use it to commit fraud or identity theft.
You risk a bad malware infection should you try to download games or software illegally.. The Exela Stealer is distributed through phishing pages and websites offering free software downloads. However, given the malware’s capabilities, cybercriminals could devise new distribution method so be ever more vigilant about phishing emails, strong passwords, multi factor authentication, ant virus updates etc. Whenever there is a big data leak like this one, check whether your own credentials are compromised. T Cybernews has its own personal data leak checker, or use Troy Hunt’s popular HaveIBeenPwned ,or Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor.
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FileHold Document Management Software has all of the essential features organizations need to make their documents secure, organized and compliant right “out of the box”.
FileHold delivers essential, document, records and workflow management.
FileHold scales to support thousands of users and millions of documents.
Ease of use
The FileHold filing structure mirrors the physical office filing environment. Document cabinets contain drawers that contain folder groups and or folders that contain documents. This familiar document filing approach ensures that users can easily browse for documents in a logical and efficient fashion.
Web browser access
FileHold software can be accessed from anywhere in the world via a web browser. Multiple browsers are supported and all functionality is available including system administration and library administration.
Mobile FileHold
Manage your documents while out of the office with the easiest mobile document management software you will ever use.
Search
Search documents from a simple Google-like search or an advanced search using metadata. Save the searches to create reports whenever you need.
Document viewers
A FileHold Level 1 viewer comes with every registered user license and allows users to see an image of a document without the need to have the native software installed on their computer the viewers work with both the web client and the desktop application.
Microsoft Office integration
Tight integration with Microsoft Office is provided that gives direct access from the document software to: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Visio.
Records management software
Manage both short and long term working and archived documents.
Advanced Record retention and disposition policies for both electronic and paper based records are standard in the software. Document, data and usage history is fully captured to stay in compliance.
Electronic forms (e-Forms)
Metadata information can be extracted from electronic forms created using the standard Microsoft Word tools found in Office or PDF forms. Once created the form data can be automatically extracted into FileHold metadata when the form is added to the system.
Courier
FileHold Courier allows you to transmit documents for viewing or approving to people inside or outside the document management system. Courier is a “proof of delivery” system where unlike email it is a secure method of sending documents. With email there is no way to know if the documents ever arrived or whether the attachment could be opened by the recipient. With Courier, recipients are notified by email containing a secure link which is then fully tracked and logged in FileHold.
Calendar
Differentiate your daily tasks and become more proficient at accomplishing your document management goals using the FileHold calendar.
Document version control
Document version control software provides: check in / checkout ability to prevent documents from being overwritten or deleted when documents are updated by more than one party. All versions of a document are maintained by the software.
Document scanning and imaging
FileHold ships with scanning and imaging software that support all scanners types to allow organizations to “go paperless”. Basic and advanced third party scanning software is supported for both simple and complex document scanning operations. Partner software to process scanned documents, to look for text using zonal OCR, and pre-populating metadata fields before import into FileHold. This is particularly powerful with standardized forms like invoices as part of the AP process. We offer a complimentary license of this software with installs, which can be installed on multiple workstations, although only one copy can be running at a time.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and indexing
Using the scanning software that ships with the paperless office software users can convert the text on typed paper documents into editable and searchable information using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The information that is zonally OCR’ed can be imported into the metadata fields of FileHold.
Synergy Software Systems can further assist you to further automate your document based processes with our RPA tools
Check documents out / Check documents in
Users are able to check in and check out documents from the software from within Microsoft Office applications, or from the Desktop Application or from anywhere in the world using the web interface.
Document “tagging” or metadata capture
Capturing metadata or “tagging” (key data about the document) is the key to successful search and document organization. The software has easy to use controlled document tagging to ensure documents are classified.
Virtual folders
The Virtual Folders feature in the software allows limitless aggregation of documents throughout the library into personal “views“. A Project Manager might have a virtual folder containing project documentation, project legal contract documents, invoices, design documentation and emails even though each document is stored in different locations of the library.
Language packs
FileHold offers two language packs as standard features: French and Spanish. The user interface can be translated into any language by customers or partners. Some languages that have been translated by customers include Polish, Arabic and Chinese.
Work offline
If you are travelling or out of the office and are not connected to the FileHold document management server, then you can still work on your important documents offline. The software will recognize the document changes and can be synchronized with the Library once you are back online.
Document linking
Document to document linking builds parent or child relationships between documents and allows users to link and organize documents in logical groups. Linking provides the ability to create document shortcuts to documents frequently needed.
Matter-centric filing (Auto-tagging)
Metadata is automatically applied to a document when added to a specific destination folder. Matter Centric filing is a feature / term commonly used in the legal industry.
User roles and security
FileHold ships with a choice out of 11 different user security roles ranging from “read only” to “System Administration” to provide an appropriate level of user access permissions for workers at all levels. Users see only documents that administrators want them to see.
FIPS compliance
The US Federal Government requires compliance in order to meet security and interoperability standards. Filehold Licenses and passwords are encrypted using a FIPS-140 compliant algorithm to meet full compliance.
Watched folders
FileHold software can be configured so that certain folders on the local computer or network are “watched” by FileHold and then automatically moved into the library. The documents imported into FileHold by the watched folder functionality can be automatically tagged and destination folder pre-configured.
User audit logging and tracking
FileHold tracks and records every user activity to ensure a complete audit trail of document activity in the software. This document auditing capability ensures compliance and protects intellectual property.
Email
Email documents via attachments or links.
Document subscriptions
FileHold software allows users to subscribe to and to be notified of edits to documents or changes to folders they have subscribed to. When an existing document is updated or a document is added to a folder, the user receives email notification that the change has occurred, who has changed it, and receives a secure link to directly access the document.
Document naming standards
The software can be configured to automatically create document names to enforce adherence to document or record naming conventions.
Third-party integration
A well documented Web Services API allows direct integration with third party applications and flexible integration with existing back office systems. These web services are available to third parties to provide easy integration with other enterprise solutions and productivity applications.
URL support
Provides the ability to send a secured link to a document, rather than emailing the document and cluttering up the mail inbox. This link can then be clicked on to launch the Web Client or Desktop Client to work on the document in a few seconds.
Document control numbering
This feature provides for the automatic application of document control numbers to documents.
Reporting and document compliance
FileHold comes with many built in reports to give administrators information about the usage of documents and users.
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Microsoft recently reminded its customers of the Windows 10 21H2 end-of-service (EOS) on June 13, 2023. It will affect editions released in November 2021 such as: Windows 10 Home, version 21H2; Windows 10 Pro, version 21H2; Windows 10 Pro Education, version 21H2; and Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, version 21H2.
These editions will no longer receive security updates after June 13, 2023.” reminds. Customers who contact Microsoft Support after this date will be directed to update their device to the latest version of Windows 10 or upgrade to Windows 11 to remain supported..
Microsoft noted that the June 2023 security update of Windows 10 21H2 will be the last one it will receive. This EOS signals the stop of updates for version 21H2, especially the security and monthly quality updates. This will expose users to possible issues without necessary future security patches and bug fixes.
Encourages users to get Windows 10 22H2 (Windows 10 2022 Update) or upgrade to Windows 11 available since November 2022 for users running Windows 10 20H2 or later via Windows Update. Microsoft said it would also push the update to consumer and non-managed business devices running Windows 10 20H2.
“To help keep you protected and productive, Windows Update will automatically initiate a feature update for Windows 10 consumer devices and non-managed business devices that are at, or within several months of reaching end of servicing. This keeps your device supported and receiving monthly updates that are critical to security and ecosystem health.”
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This week Microsoft demonstrated how its natural language AI capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot will extend across the company’s products and services.
Microsoft also owns a 49 percent share of OpenAI, a generative AI firm that announced the next iteration of its natural language AI chatbot.
Microsoft has already integrated ChatGPT into its: Azure cloud, the Bing search engine and the Edge browser, Microsoft 365 Copilot further promises to embed natural language querying capabilities into Office productivity tools in the Microsoft 365 apps like: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams.
In a livestreamed presentation, CEO Satya Nadella positioned Copilot as a turning point in computer-user interactions. For years, AI has been working “behind the scenes” in search engines, auto-correct and recommendation lists. “You can say we’ve been using AI on autopilot,” Nadella said. The new generation of AI — specifically, natural language and generative AI — will let users run it “on co-pilot.” “We believe this next generation of AI will unlock a new wave of productivity growth,” he said.
Microsoft 365 Copilot similar to ChatGPT uses large language models (LLMs) with the Microsoft Graph API. It’s powered by the Copilot System, “a sophisticated processing and orchestration engine.”
“Copilot is more than OpenAI’s ChatGPT embedded into Microsoft 365. It’s a sophisticated processing and orchestration engine working behind the scenes to combine the power of LLMs, including GPT-4, with the Microsoft 365 apps and your business data in the Microsoft Graph — now accessible to everyone through natural language.” said Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro
The demos showed how a user can prompt Microsoft 365 Copilot within in minutes or even seconds to:
Create a personalized slide deck in PowerPoint.
Highlight relevant data in an Excel sheet in response to a question.
Create a customized marketing document, as well as a corresponding PowerPoint presentation (with presenter notes).
Summarize a Teams meeting and identify calls to action.
Microsoft acknowledge that Microsoft 365 Copilot is not infallible as put it sometimes, it will “be usefully wrong”. A user might then choose to manually make edits, corrections or stylistic changes to the file that Copilot generated. , Sumit Chauhan, head of Microsoft’s Office product group, cautioned: “Now remember — you’re not going to send this off to a customer without a review.”
. Microsoft also debuted a brand-new feature on Thursday called Business Chat, which Spataro described as a “knowledge navigator” that users can access from Teams, Bing or Microsoft365.com. From his blog:
“Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. “
Jon Friedman, head of design and research at Microsoft said. “Our goal is to give people agency,” …. “You always have the option to use, discard, adjust or undo.”
Copilot has “mitigations against mistakes, biases and misuse, said Chief Microsoft Scientist Jamie Teevan,. “Every Copilot feature has passed privacy checks … and is monitored in real time,” “We’re going to make mistakes, but when we do, we’ll address them quickly.” she said.
Copilot has two-factor authentication enabled and will fall in line with the Microsoft 365 security, compliance and privacy policies that a company already has in place. It also has protections against data leakage, Spataro wrote:
“Copilot LLMs are not trained on your tenant data or your prompts. Within your tenant, our time-tested permissioning model ensures that data won’t leak across user groups. And on an individual level, Copilot presents only data you can access using the same technology that we’ve been using for years to secure customer data “
Recently, the UAE Cabinet issued a resolution that stipulates penalties for violating the UAE Federal Decree by Law No 32 of 2021 concerning Commercial Companies (“Commercial Companies Law”).
This applies to all UAE onshore or mainland companies, including Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). Penalties for Non-Compliance · Accounting Registers: A fine of AED 15,000 for failing to maintain accounting registers. · Trade Name Change: A monthly fine of AED 500 for failing to comply with the decision to change the trade name, with a maximum annual amount of AED 5,000. · Ownership: When the LLC carries out activities with strategic significance, it may face a fine of AED 100,000 for non-compliance with the required UAE national ownership percentage or minimum number of Emirati board members. · Memorandum of Association: A fine of AED 1,000 on the director or chairman of the board for not having updated the MOA as per the Commercial Companies Law. · Loss Disclosure: A fine of AED 50,000 will be given to the director, chairman of the board, or their representative when a general assembly is not called to disclose losses equal to 50% or more of its capital. · Data Access: A fine of AED 5,000 for refusing access to minutes of meetings, books, and other related transaction documents with respect to shareholders. · Board Meetings: A fine of AED 3,000 for failing to invite a director or board member to a board meeting. · Refusal of Information or Misleading Information: AED 5,000 fine on the director or chairman of the board of directors of the LLC, their representative, or the auditor upon refusal, concealment or providing misleading information to authority inspectors. · Penalties for Share Disposal: A fine of AED 20,000 may be imposed on any individual who disposes shares in violation of the Commercial Companies Law. · General Assembly: The director or chairman of the LLC board may be fined AED 5,000 for failing to call the annual general assembly meeting, with a fine of AED 10,000 for failing to call the meeting when requested by the Ministry.
The implementation i suggests that authorities are considering a stringent examination of companies’ adherence to the Commercial Companies Law. so thoroughly assess your corporation’s practices to minimise the likelihood of fines due to non-compliance.
Companies Are Required to Achieve 1% Emirationsation by 1 July 2023 to Avoid Penalties – The penalties for private companies that fail to meet Emiratisation targets under the amended scheme will now be imposed ‘semi-annually‘. – Firms that don’t achieve the 1 per cent Emiratisation target growth by 1 July 2023 will be fined Dh7,000 for each UAE national who has not been hired. – Violating companies will be charged from 1 July 2023. – Private firms are now required to increase the number of Emiratis in skilled jobs by 1 per cent every six months, while remaining on track to achieve the overall 2 percent target by the end of the year. – The penalties for non-compliance from 2022 will continue to be collected.
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Windows 10 use currently leads worldwide in terms of Windows desktop use.
Windows 7 with Extended Security Updates support fell out of support on Jan. 10. The same date as the end of supportfor Windows 8.1.
Both the Home and Pro Windows 10 OSes can’t be purchased from Microsoft after this month. Here’s Microsoft’s language to that effect from its Microsoft Store listings for the Home and Pro editions:
January 31, 2023 will be the last day this Windows 10 download is offered for sale. Windows 10 will remain supported with security updates that help protect your PC from viruses, spyware, and other malware until October 14, 2025.
Corporate Tax is a form of direct tax levied on the net income of corporations and other businesses. Corporate Tax is sometimes also referred to as “Corporate Income Tax” or “Business Profits Tax” in other jurisdictions.
Broadly, Corporate Tax applies to the following “Taxable Persons”: ● UAE companies and other juridical persons that are incorporated or effectively managed and controlled in the UAE; ● Natural persons (individuals) who conduct a Business or Business Activity in the UAE as specified in a Cabinet Decision to be issued in due course; and ● Non-resident juridical persons (foreign legal entities) that have a Permanent Establishment in the UAE (which is explained under Section 8). Juridical persons established in a UAE Free Zone are also within the scope of Corporate Tax as “Taxable Persons” and will need to comply with the requirements set out in the Corporate Tax Law. However, a Free Zone Person that meets the conditions to be considered a Qualifying Free Zone Person can benefit from a Corporate Tax rate of 0% on their Qualifying Income (the conditions are included in Section 14). Non-resident persons that do not have a Permanent Establishment in the UAE or that earn UAE sourced income that is not related to their Permanent Establishment may be subject to Withholding Tax (at the rate of 0%). Withholding tax is a form of Corporate Tax collected at source by the payer on behalf of the recipient of the income. Withholding taxes exist in many tax systems and typically apply to the cross-border payment of dividends, interest, royalties and other types of income.
During this month, FTA will also be running a series of online orientation sessions for EmaraTax users. There will be two sessions per day:
• 10 – 11 am providing you an opportunity to raise specific questions about using EmaraTax; • 3 – 4 pm focusing on specific aspects of EmaraTax, in particular password reset, returns submission and payments.
This You Tube recording has already been released and will soon also be available in Arabic.
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Microsoft announced last week that in February. 2023 a future Microsoft Edge update will permanently disable the Internet Explorer 11 desktop web browser on some Windows 10 systems.
115 June 22was the day Internet Explorer reached its end of support, and the company told customers that the legacy web browser would get disabled via a Windows update.
“The out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application is scheduled to be permanently disabled on certain versions of Windows 10 devices on February 14, 2023, through a Microsoft Edge update, not a Windows update as previously communicated,” Redmond said on Friday.
“All remaining devices that have not already been redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge are scheduled to be redirected with the Microsoft Edge update scheduled for February 14, 2023.”
Enterprise admins should to transition from IE11 to Microsoft Edge with IE mode and remove IE visual references from the Start Menu and the Windows taskbar with the Disable IE policy before February 14 to avoid “business disruption at scale when users lose access to IE11-dependent applications.”
Next year’s May non-security preview release and the June Windows monthly security update are designed to remove those in environments where admins do not act before IE11 gets permanently disabled.
Internet Explorer will redirect users to the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge when launching the Internet Explorer 11 desktop applications. During the process, users’ data (including settings, passwords, and favorites) will be imported into Microsoft Edge to make the switch easier.
Since October 2020, IE11 has automatically launchrd Microsoft Edge when visiting incompatible sites. The list of incompatible sites (managed by Microsoft) contains 7,562 domains, a long list of high-profile online platforms and services, including Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, Twitter, and many others.
Internet Explorer around for some time yet
Although officially retired from multiple Windows 10 versions on the semi-annual channel (SAC) servicing channel and not shipping with Windows 11, IE11 will still be available on Windows 7 ESU, Windows 8.1, and versions of Windows 10 LTSC client, IoT, and Server. The web browser will continue to receive technical support and security updates on systems that run these Windows versions for the lifecycle of the Windows version.
You can switch to Microsoft Edge with IE mode which enables backward compatibility and will be supported through at least 2029. To enable IE mode in Microsoft Edge, go to edge://settings/defaultbrowser, toggle on the ‘Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer‘ option, and restart the browser.
Microsoft also discontinued IE support in Teams in November 2020 and also ended support across Microsoft 365 apps and services in August 2021. Other Microsoft services and apps have also ended support for Internet Explorer during the last few years.
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