In most companies, tax sits with finance. The directors set strategy, the finance team handles returns and filings, and if something goes wrong with tax, it is treated as a corporate problem — a matter of assessments, fines, and adjustments paid by the company. For businesses operating in Egypt, that mental model is incomplete, and [...]
Ask most people when a business must register for VAT in Egypt, and they will name a number: half a million pounds of turnover. It feels like a comfortable runway — operate, grow, and worry about VAT once you approach the threshold. For a large category of businesses, that belief is simply wrong, and acting [...]
Every month, a foreign company operating in Egypt pays for services that originate abroad — management and service fees from a parent company, software and cloud subscriptions, consultants, marketing agencies, engineering support, intellectual property licenses. None of these foreign suppliers charges Egyptian VAT. So the VAT is never recorded. And quietly, transaction by transaction, a [...]
By Karim El Sayed, Managing Partner — Consortio Law Firm Every international company entering Egypt faces the same fundamental problem. The market is real. The opportunity has been validated commercially. The board has approved the expansion. And then the internal legal and operational team sits down to plan the actual entry — and discovers that [...]
ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT PRIME MINISTER'S DECREE NO. 2310 OF 2017 Issued on 28 October 2017 | Published on 28 October 2017 Official Gazette, Issue No. 43 (Bis A) | Effective as of 29 October 2017 EXECUTIVE REGULATIONS OF THE INVESTMENT LAW PROMULGATED BY LAW NO. 72 OF 2017 Sherif Ismail — Prime Minister PREAMBLE [...]
Entering the Egyptian market is an exciting opportunity for international companies, but it also comes with complex legal, regulatory, and procedural considerations that can significantly impact long-term success. For this reason, foreign investors often look for the best law firm in Egypt — not simply to handle documentation, but to act as a strategic partner [...]
