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Hany Elnaggar examines how the OECD’s global minimum tax is reshaping the GCC’s investment incentive landscape, shifting the region from rate-based competition toward substance-driven economic positioning
May 27, 2026
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  • Since APAs became an option for corporate taxpayers, there has been a gradual shift in their purpose and a split in taxpayer and government approaches to the agreements. Catherine Snowdon discovers how the process of getting an APA needs to develop to better suit modern business.
  • Ronald Evans and Gustavo Sánchez discuss Venezuela's complex rules and explain that taxpayers must strive to comply with the legislation or face heavy penalties.
  • With transfer pricing rules only introduced in 2005, Ecuador is still feeling its way through the implications. Diego González-Béndiksen and Diego Almeida talk through what taxpayers can and cannot do under the fledgling laws.

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