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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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  • Jo-An Yee and Maurice Sae-ung of Ernst & Young explain how the adoption of a wider scope of exchange of information clause enables the rapid extension of Hong Kong’s tax treaty network.
  • Finance Act 2011 introduced significant changes to Ireland’s securitisation regime, including the welcome inclusion of commodities in the list of qualifying assets for investment. The Act also introduced changes affecting the rules on the deductibility of profit participating interest and swap payments in certain cross border structures. Andrew Quinn and William Fogarty of Maples and Calder explain the benefits.
  • Gary Richards and Kevin Cummings of Berwin Leighton Paisner in London analyse the UK CFC consultation document and discover that it would be paradoxical if the new rules meant that one of the main reasons for introducing the worldwide debt cap – upstream loans – was caught by them.

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