GCC Tax Developments: Reviewing 2025 and Preparing for 2026
Description
During this webinar, we will unpack the latest tax developments across the GCC, with a focus on 2024 milestones and 2025 implications for financial services firms and their clients. This session will provide clarity on VAT, corporate tax implementation, and transfer pricing frameworks, helping professionals stay compliant and strategically positioned.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Overview of key tax changes across GCC jurisdictions in 2024
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Understanding the UAE’s corporate tax regime and its implementation
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Regional VAT updates and compliance challenges
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Practical guidance on transfer pricing requirements and documentation
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Preparing clients for regulatory changes anticipated in 2025
Presenter
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Zain Satardien Partner, Head of Tax & International Trade at Hourani & Partners |
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Zain is a Partner and Head of Tax and International Trade practice group at Hourani & Partners. With nearly two decades of experience, Zain’s core practice lies in blending his expertise in GCC tax law, international trade law, corporate structuring, legal strategy and litigation. Drawing on his extensive experience in these disciplines, Zain regularly provides legal and strategic advice to both private sector clients and public sector institutions in the GCC. He regularly advises both regional and international clients, as well as governmental entities, multinationals, family offices, and corporate clients. He advises on a range of issues centering around tax law, trade law, investment law, corporate and tax structuring, and related litigation. Chambers and Partners has acknowledged that “Zain possesses a unique blend of expertise and experience that is rare to come across in the market”, “is very knowledgeable about … strategy”, and “demonstrate[s] the highest level of professionalism and precision”. Zain is also a Lexis Nexis award-winning author and recently published a book titled ‘Global Trade Law in the Middle East: Essential Principles for the Gulf States’. First of its kind, the book offers to present concise and practical guidance on the international trade law framework of the GCC. |