UAE business updates — ready for your AI agent
BGA UAE Business Updates is an open MCP server: it collects official FTA, Ministry of Finance and MOHRE publications on Corporate Tax, VAT, e-invoicing and payroll, validates them, and serves them to your agent through a single URL. No API keys, no signup.
The latest 10 updates
A live view of the MCP database. Scheduled collection attempts run every day at 05:00, 11:00 and 17:00 Dubai time; this is the source-check schedule, not a promise of when a regulator will publish.
- Schedule
- 05:00 · 11:00 · 17:00Dubai · GST (UTC+4)
- Last successful collection
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Connect in a minute
Pick your agent — one URL is all it takes.
One-prompt install
Copy and send this to your agent — it will detect its own MCP client, add the server and verify the connection:
Add the "UAE Business Updates" MCP server:
URL: https://mcp.bga.ae/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth).
Detect which MCP client I am using, add the server as
uae-updates, verify the connection with the list_sources tool
and show me the 3 latest updates. If you cannot edit the config
yourself, print the exact snippet for my client.
Full guide: https://mcp.bga.ae/installClaude Code
One terminal command:
claude mcp add --transport http uae-updates https://mcp.bga.ae/mcpclaude.ai and Claude Desktop
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the server address. Done — the tools appear in your chat.
https://mcp.bga.ae/mcpCursor
Settings → Tools & MCP → New MCP Server, or in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"uae-updates": { "url": "https://mcp.bga.ae/mcp" }
}
}OpenClaw
The mcp.servers block in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json (or via MCP settings):
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"uae-updates": {
"url": "https://mcp.bga.ae/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}
}Hermes (Nous Research)
The mcp_servers section in ~/.hermes/config.yaml:
mcp_servers:
uae-updates:
url: "https://mcp.bga.ae/mcp"Codex CLI (OpenAI)
One command in your terminal:
codex mcp add uae-updates --url https://mcp.bga.ae/mcpChatGPT
Enable Developer mode: Settings → Connectors → Advanced. Then Create — paste the server URL, authentication: None. The tools appear in chat and Deep Research.
https://mcp.bga.ae/mcpAny other MCP client or plain HTTP
Transport: Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC over POST). Try it from a terminal:
curl -X POST https://mcp.bga.ae/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'What the server can do
Five tools — your agent picks them automatically whenever you ask about UAE tax and business.
search_updates
Full-text search across all collected updates, with filters by topic, status and date.
latest_updates
The most recent regulator publications — as one stream or per topic: corporate tax, VAT, e-invoicing, payroll.
get_update
A canonical record with publication, deadline and first-observed dates, link health and all primary/secondary observations.
list_sources
All collectors with their latest attempt, latest success, staleness, failure count and visible records.
monthly_digest
A localized monthly digest that places each update once and labels publications, deadlines and observation dates honestly.
Sources and data honesty
Direct collectors monitor official regulator pages; secondary discovery is limited to official links. Every result exposes provenance, date semantics and link availability separately.
- FTA · news, announcements, VAT and Corporate Tax guides with Public Clarifications, tax legislation (tax.gov.ae)
- Ministry of Finance — e-invoicing · legislation and documents of the eInvoicing programme (mof.gov.ae)
- MOHRE — news · labour law, WPS and payroll (mohre.gov.ae)
- Central Bank of the UAE · news and press releases via the official RSS feed (centralbank.ae)
- UAE Legislation portal · new federal laws and amendments (uaelegislation.gov.ae)
- Free zones & regulators · RAKEZ, ADGM, DMCC, DIFC, JAFZA; Ministry of Economy & Tourism, DFSA, CMA (ex-SCA), Dubai DET, Dubai Legislation Portal
- Validation · confirmed means direct ingestion by a primary collector and candidate means secondary discovery; neither is a link-health claim. Canonical URLs are deduplicated globally and availability is reported separately
Questions and answers
Is it really free?
Yes. The server is open and free — no signup, no keys, no limits on fair use. It is BGA's contribution to the UAE business community.
Why is no API key needed?
The tools only read public regulator data — nothing can be changed or deleted through the server, so no authorization is required.
Which topics are covered?
Corporate Tax, VAT and excise, e-invoicing (Peppol), payroll and WPS, customs, free zones, AML and licensing. The source list keeps growing — see the current set via the list_sources tool.
Can I rely on this data for decisions?
The data is informational: the server relays official publications but does not interpret them for your situation. Decisions with tax consequences deserve professional advice.
This service provides reference information and is not tax or legal advice. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the FTA, the Ministry of Finance, MOHRE or any other UAE government body; public information is summarized with attribution and a direct official link when available. To understand how the changes affect your company specifically — talk to the BGA team.