The lower profit-based oil tax has caused Russia’s federal budget revenues from oil and gas, the backbone of the economy, to decrease roughly by 36% in May, compared to the same month last year, according to the Russi...
The General Manager of Centamin Egypt, Youssef El Raghy, announced that Egypt received a total amount of taxes exceeding EGP 930 million from Sukari gold mine, since the start of operation and until the last of Decemb...
The Parliamentary Committee on Industry is considering proposals for re-pricing the natural gas sold to industrial purchasers and eliminating the property taxes on factories, Al Shorouk Newspaper reports. The committe...
Saudi Arabian government issued a royal decree to decrease the income tax paid by Saudi Aramco from 85% to be 50% in order to facilitate the company’s initial public shares offering (IPO) that will be process...
Morocco’s oil refiner, Samir, has lodged an appeal against a recent court decision that placed it into liquidation and named an independent trustee to run the company, the refiner’s lawyer said, Reuters re...
Morocco’s sole oil refiner, Samir, issued a profit warning saying that its 2015 results are expected to show a widening loss after production was halted last year and its bank accounts were frozen, Reuters repor...
Oil-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) lost more than $340b in oil revenue from their budgets in 2015, amounting to 20% of their combined gross domestic product, according to the Internatio...
As its currency slumps, Norway is considering withdrawing from its massive sovereign wealth fund, reported Bloomberg. Long reliant on high energy prices, the Scandinavian country has seen government tax revenues from ...
The Russian government, facing budget deficits due to low oil prices, may restructure taxes on crude to make up for the shortfall, Bloomberg reported. Russia, which relies on oil revenues for about 50% of its revenues...
A number of governments in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region have undertaken various forms of subsidy reforms to boost government finances in the context of sharp decline in oil prices and subsequent cont...