Here are four factors you need to know if you are giving money or property to someone: If you give someone a gift or gifts of money or property and the value is over the annual gift exclusion amount, you will generally owe gift taxes. If you give a gift of property, taxes must be paid on the fair market value of the item (not the purchase price, nor the original value).
Alcohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia, where judges can hand down public executions or beatings with whips or sticks to those found guilty of offences. As well as severely breaking skin and causing heavy bruising, the punishment can lead to nerve damage, infections, psychological trauma and even death in extreme cases.
Expatriate non-Muslim residents may request a liquor permit to purchase alcoholic beverages, but it is illegal for such holders to provide drinks to others. The legal age for drinking alcohol is 18 in Abu Dhabi (although a Ministry of Tourism by-law allows hotels to serve alcohol only to those over 21), and 21 in Dubai and the Northern Emirates (except Sharjah, where drinking alcohol is illegal).