Hey so you need to keep two things separate:
1) Tax
certificate, which you need to be able to show proof that you have paid taxes in the UAE
2) Residency, which means that you are able to live in the UAE and be treated as a UAE resident, which means that UAE banks will not send any CRS message about your money as you have a UAE account as a UAE resident
So to get to point 1 you first need point 2: if you can get a residency visa as a remote worker, which has some requirements like controlling a company outside UAE which generates at least 5k a month and that has been under your control for at least a year, then you can simply distribute those dividends to you and put them in a UAE bank. If you need a tax
certificate, for example because your country of origin forces you to show that you are tax resident in the UAE, once you have the visa, you need all the extra steps required to get a tax
certificate ( tenancy contract, 6 months of bank statements, attestment that you spent 180 days in the country, valid residency visa ). After you have the tax
certificate, if your country of origin has double taxation treatis with the UAE and you comply with your country of origin laws ( like not having a wife living in your country of origin ), than you have paid your taxes and your money is clean
If you don't need a tax
certificate, because you live like a digital nomad, this setup simply avoids any CRS communication because the money in the UAE bank belongs to a UAE resident with a valid visa, so there is no CRS.
It's literally called a 'tax residency certificate' (Login), that's why I used the term. My query was more to establish if you applied for a TRC and whether there were any problems because your salary wasn't coming from a UAE entity. Apologies for the confusion.
