A Free Zone Authority offers business licenses to foreign-owned businesses. Each Free Zone is designed around one more more business industry categories and only offers licenses to companies within those categories.
A company set up in a Free Zone offers owners:

• 100% ownership
• Tax exemption
• Purpose built office or warehouse facilities

There are more than 20 Free Zones operating in Dubai.

• Dubai Airport Free Zone
• Dubai Cars and Automotive Zone (DUCAMZ) also known as Dubai Auto Zone
• Dubai Healthcare City
• Dubai International Academic City
• Dubai Internet City
  Dubai Internet City
  Dubai Internet City is an information technology park created by the government of Dubai as a free economic zone and a strategic base for companies targeting regional emerging markets. The economic rules of DIC allow companies to avail themselves of a number of ownership, taxation and custom...
  
  
• Dubai International Financial Centre
• Dubai Knowledge Village
  Dubai Knowledge Village
  Dubai Knowledge Village is a educational free trade zone campus in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that provides facilities for training and learning institutions to operate with 100% foreign ownership. There are over 400 institutions operating within it, which include universities,...
  
  
• Dubai Media City
  Dubai Media City
  Dubai Media City , part of Dubai Holding, is a tax-free zone within Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has been built by the Dubai government to boost UAE's media foothold, and has become a regional hub for media organizations including news agencies, publishing, online media, advertising, production,...
  
  
• Dubai Gold and Diamond Park
  Dubai Gold and Diamond Park
  Dubai Gold and Diamond Park is located in Dubai, UAE. It was established in May 2001. Spreading 511,343 Sq.feet , it is located 20 km from Dubai International Airport.The three-storey development, which makes up Phase One of the park, is already fully let. The park is an extension of the Jebel...
  
  
• Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC
  Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
  The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre is the free zone authority for the Jumeirah Lake Towers free zone. It was established in 2002 as a strategic initiative of the Government of Dubai with a mandate to provide the physical, market and financial infrastructure required to set up a commodities market...
  
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• Dubai Silicon Oasis
  Dubai Silicon Oasis
  Dubai Silicon Oasis is a 7.2km² free zone in Dubai with special benefits to companies operating within it. And providing various infrastructure services.-Introduction:...
  
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• Dubai Techno Park Dubai Techno Park
• International Media Production Zone
  International Media Production Zone
  The International Media Production Zone is a free zone and freehold area that caters to media production companies. Spreading over an area of , it is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates near Jumeirah Village South. The Dubai government has plans to convert this area into the next generation...
  
  
• Jebel Ali Free Zone
  Jebel Ali Free Zone
  Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi...
  
  

Free Zones Under Establishment

• Dubai Maritime City
  Dubai Maritime City
  Dubai Maritime City is a multipurpose maritime zone. It is a member of the Dubai World group of companies. Maritime city is expected to be fully operational by 2012...
  
  
• Dubai Carpet Free Zone
• Dubai Auto Parts City
• Heavy Equipment and Trucks Zone (HETZ)
• Mohammad Bin Rashid Technology Park (Technology Free Zone)
• Dubai Flower Centre
  Dubai Flower centre
  Dubai Flower Centre was developed to handle flower imports and exports, as Dubai is a major hub for the import and export of flowers and the airport required a specialist facility since these products need special conditions. The flower centre's first phase was completed in 2004 at a cost of $50...
  
  
• Dubai Textile Village
  Dubai Textile Village
  Dubai Textile Village is a free zone under development on 460,000 sq.m of land in the Ras al-Khor area of Dubai,as the UAE textile industry with export of Dh. 12 billion is growing rapidly and is poised to become the largest trading sector after the oil industry in UAE. The demand for textiles has...
  
  
• International Humanitarian City
• Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC)