Tax Disputes Resolution In Egypt

The Egyptian Parliament approved extending the Tax Dispute Resolution Law No.79 of the year 2016 for the upcoming two years. Such legislation was one of the most critical and important demands in the tax community,where it was issued to ease the process of Tax Dispute Resolution between the Financier and the Egyptian Tax Authority and to accelerate the lengthy tax dispute process, removing cases from court and allowing settlement by committees headed by experts who do not work for the Tax Authority.

However, the number of requests submitted in the first months for settling alike disputes was not the expected number by the Ministry of Finance and that came as a surprise for the Deputy Minister of Finance for Tax Policies, where he expressed such shock in several Tax meetings, but by the time, the Ministry of Finance began to receive a huge number of requests, as thousands of disputes were settled through such way instead of proceeding the case through the competent