Egypt social insurance deadlines can become urgent when an employee leaves, an injury occurs or the company receives a contribution assessment. These events need a separate response process from routine monthly payroll. Management should know who receives the information, which deadline starts to run and where the supporting records are held. This final article in [...]
Workplace air quality in Egypt is a legal compliance issue when operations expose workers to gases, vapours or dust. A site's environmental approval does not establish whether its controls adequately protect workers. That protection matters during normal production, maintenance and equipment faults. An international group may already have a detailed health and safety system. However, [...]
A factory has an environmental approval and a folder labelled environmental register. Yet the production process has changed, monitoring results sit with a contractor and the register still describes last year's operation. Egypt environmental register requirements concern that gap between the document and the site as much as the existence of the document itself. For [...]
An international group approves a new production line in Egypt. Procurement orders the equipment, the local team starts planning installation, and legal receives the environmental file shortly before commissioning. The environmental impact assessment in Egypt may already be late: the relevant duty attaches before project implementation, rather than simply before the first commercial sale. For [...]
Law No. 91 of 2005 Promulgating Law Article (1) The provisions of the attached Law shall apply to income tax. Article (2) The Income Tax Law promulgated by Law No. 157 of 1981 is repealed. However, the appeal committees constituted under that Law shall continue until 31 December 2005 to consider tax disputes relating to [...]
Egypt withholding tax is a question to resolve before your company pays an overseas service provider, licensor or lender. Must the company withhold Egyptian income tax from the payment? Article 56 of Egypt’s Income Tax Law No 91 of 2005 places that obligation on specified payers. It covers interest, royalties, service fees and payments for [...]
Full English translation of Egypt's Minister of Transport Decree 654/2023 (LTRA) — land transport of goods and freight intermediation using information technology.
A foreign company can incorporate in Egypt, fund its capital in full, and still find its tax incentives stalled and its investors' residence permits on hold — because the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) has not yet confirmed that the project is genuinely operating. Two separate committee procedures at GAFI's Investor Service [...]
ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT LAW No. 15 OF 2017 Issuing the Law on Facilitating the Granting of Licenses for Industrial Establishments قانون بإصدار قانون تيسير منح تراخيص المنشآت الصناعية Issued 3 May 2017 · Published in the Official Gazette, Issue No. 17 bis (d), 3 May 2017 · In force from 4 May 2017 Abdel [...]
ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT EXECUTIVE REGULATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL LICENSING FACILITATION LAW Minister of Trade & Industry Decree No. 1082 of 2017 issued under Law No. 15 of 2017 اللائحة التنفيذية لقانون تيسير إجراءات منح تراخيص المنشآت الصناعية الصادر بالقانون رقم 15 لسنة 2017 Issued 14 August 2017 · Published in Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyya, Issue No. [...]
