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A taxing question
TAX laws are made to be evaded, runs the questionable maxim. And in Egypt, alas, it is not always the tax payers' fault. In fact, some laws appear to have been designed expressly to complicate, rather than regulate, commercial and industrial dealings. Among these is the Unified Tax on Income, issued in 1993 and criticised at the time by tax experts for not having been "discussed properly, but hastily ratified by the People's Assembly" according Hassan Kamal of Ain Shams University. --read on--
Arabising Cyberspace
The issue of Arabising the Internet as well as computer software was in the spotlight during this year's COMDEX exhibition. Shaimaa Labib attended
Igniting the engine
The first US IT trade mission to Egypt is unlikely to be the last, Niveen Wahish reports
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Piracy down
Egypt has scored some success in reducing software piracy in the past year, according to the annual report issued by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), writes Niveen Wahish.--read on--
A few weeks more
The Egypt-EU Partnership agreement is likely to be signed in a few weeks. Yet after years of negotiations, some industrialists continue to fear the worst, writes Niveen Wahish
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From American aid to trade
Although trade between Egypt and the US has strengthened, an American trade official has indicated that Egypt must promote itself if it wishes to lure greater US investments. Sherine Nasr reports
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