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IT Consulting · Netherlands

Aorta: when the client won’t pay a UAE entity.

The blocker

Their Dutch end client refused to pay invoices directly to a UAE entity — a deal-breaker for moving the consultancy's billing to the UAE.

What we did

We arranged an intermediary party that receives the payments in the Netherlands and pays them out to the UAE company — the client kept paying a Dutch counterparty, the consultancy kept its UAE structure.

“One challenge we ran into as a Dutch IT consultancy was that our end client refused to pay directly to a UAE entity. StartSmart arranged an intermediary party that receives the payments in the Netherlands and pays them out to our UAE company — clean, simple, and our client was immediately comfortable with it. For any IT consultancy serious about operating from the UAE, StartSmart is the partner you want by your side.”
— Aorta, IT Consulting · Netherlands

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