Egypt’s Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk reaffirmed on Sunday the government’s commitment to expanding tax incentives and improving facilitation measures, stressing that efforts to ease the tax burden on businesses and taxpayers would continue.
“This is not just a package that ends here,” Kouchouk said at the annual conference of the Scientific Association for Tax Legislation, chaired by Rabih Rateb.
The conference was attended by Rasha Abdel Aal, head of the Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA).
Kouchouk said the ETA was leading efforts to reform the tax system, guided by a firm commitment to simplifying procedures and making compliance easier for the business community.
He welcomed the authority’s review of its decisions, saying this would help make tax procedures more flexible and straightforward.
The minister noted that 90 per cent of the tax reforms had been proposed by the tax community and were designed to address existing challenges through practical and implementable solutions.
He added that the government was working to expand digital tax services to streamline procedures for investors and citizens.
An updated version of the real estate tax mobile application will be launched in the coming weeks to make services more accessible to citizens, Kouchouk announced.
He described the tax certificates initiative as part of efforts to offer the greatest possible benefits to regular and compliant taxpayers, whom he regarded as longstanding partners.
Kouchouk also thanked the business community for its swift response to the reforms, noting that tax revenues rose by 27 per cent last year without imposing additional burdens on taxpayers.
