


Industry and Trade Minister Tarek Kabil: The government aims to impose a nominal annual tax of EGP 100 (that will be applied retroactively) on “SMEs” (we believe a more appropriate term would be “micro- and very-small enterprises”) in an effort to encourage these businesses to file tax returns and integrate them into the formal economy, said the minister. Khorshid stressed that the incentives package offered as part of new the Investment Law were primarily geared towards exports and also prioritize SME development.

The program presented to the IMF projects USD 9.4 mn in FDI in FY 2016-17, she added. Investment Minister Dalia Khorshid: The Investment Ministry is expecting an average of USD 15-25 bn in foreign direct and indirect investment over the coming three years, Minister Dalia Khorshid told Al Mal. Founded in 1999, Akhbar Elyom Academy is a higher Education Institute, Member of AKHBAR ELYOM association, Under the Supervision of Ministry of Higher Education.Following up on the first day of the Akhbar El Youm Economic Conference, more ministers gave their thoughts and plans for the future in the second day: The Academy awards certified certificates in the Department of Production Engineering and Printing Technology, Industrial Engineering Department, Computer Science and Information Technology Department, Journalism Department, (English) Administration Department, Electronics and Communications Engineering Department. The mission of the Akhbar Elyom Academy is to provide outstanding education and contribute to the production, development and dissemination of knowledge and to qualify the scientific cadres capable of achieving the development goals and the needs of the Egyptian and Arab society. The Akhbar Elyom Academy offers a pioneering learning experience that embodies the students’ hopes for a bright future.

The Academy’s programs are diverse and competitive, stimulating minds, imposing dialectical thinking and encouraging intellectual creativity through many different fields and experiences. The Akhbar Elyom Academy allows students to pursue their studies in a scientific environment that stimulates learning and perseverance to support their journey to seek advanced knowledge and self-realization through diverse options and opportunities to refine and develop skills, human and material resources and advanced technological systems to provide better education. The Academy is interested in community service directly through a group of scientific centers that provide services and consultation to the concerned bodies in the institutions of the Egyptian society and the Arab world, so that these centers have become effective and high level both in the provision or transfer of technology and upgrading the level of workers in the field of engineering and media Printing, administration, computer science and information technology. And provide consultations that help to make economic, political and media decision in the right direction, which fulfills the functions of these establishments and units and serves their objectives.
