Shahid Law Firm is renowned for its exceptional expertise in taxation, offering innovative legal solutions tailored to the complexities of the Egyptian tax landscape.
We are leaders in the Egyptian taxation sector, providing end-to-end tax advisory and dispute resolution services across industries. Our team is adept at navigating intricate tax legislation and is a trusted advisor to multinational corporations, family-owned businesses, and high-net-worth individuals.
Our expertise spans corporate tax planning, VAT compliance, customs duties, and the tax implications of cross-border transactions. We also specialize in contentious tax matters, offering robust defense strategies in audits, appeals, and litigation before administrative and judicial bodies.
Shahid Law Firm has been instrumental in landmark tax litigation, setting precedents in areas such as the applicability of stamp duties, VAT on specialized transactions, and the tax treatment of multinational corporate structures.
Our tax disputes team focuses exclusively on contentious tax matters, prioritizing the efficient prevention and resolution of disputes. With extensive experience in tax litigation and arbitration, we assist clients in corporate tax and capital gains disputes, real estate tax issues, stamp duty, VAT, and other indirect taxes.
Moreover, the firm represents multinational corporations, privately owned companies, partnerships, limited liability companies, high-net-worth individuals, trusts, and estates across various sectors, including commercial and industrial materials, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, food and beverages, automotive and heavy equipment products, chemicals, healthcare products, paper products, and agricultural products.
We offer a comprehensive range of taxation services, including:
- Corporate tax planning and compliance
- Value-Added Tax (VAT) advisory and disputes
- Customs duties
- Compliance with trade agreements
- Tax implications of mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings
- Representation in tax audits, appeals, and litigation
- Advisory on withholding taxes
- Payroll taxation
- Tax structuring for investment projects and foreign entities
- Representing Qatari Diar in the biggest tax evasion case in the real estate market initiated by the Egyptian Tax Authority regarding the alleged evaded income tax and associated penalties EGP 6.5 billion for a share transaction that took place in 2014.
- Representing GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in all its tax claims against the Minister of Finance with respect to wrong practices applied by the Ministry of Finance on the pharma industry. Our representation and defenses set legal precedents that are now applied by the Ministry when dealing with the pharma sector.
- Advising Longulf Trading UK Limited on legal and corporate compliance with laws and regulations related to doing business in Egypt, acted as legal counsel to implement the restructuring plan of the Egyptian affiliates as well as handled social insurance, transfer of employees and tax issues related to its existing business arm in Egypt.
- Advising the local entities of F.Hoffmann La Roche AG on the end-of-service payments, the application of the provisions of the Egyptian Labour and Tax Laws on exempting such payments from payroll tax and drafting the required documents to this effect as well as advising the Company on the legal provisions regulating the distribution of dividends on the Company’s employees and proposing restructuring plan for the Company in order to be in compliance with the provisions of the Egyptian Laws.
- Representing a global insurance provider in a dispute against the Egyptian Tax Authority, where we successfully obtained a final judgment in favor of our client confirming that the Tax Authority is not entitled to levy a stamp duty on capitalization contracts (The judgment has since become an established tax principle that is applicable industry-wide).
- Representing a five-star hotel operator in relation to a tax dispute. The Firm succeeded in resolving the dispute with the Tax Authority before the matter reached court.
- Representing Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries, a subsidiary of a UK-based investment holding – in the annulment of a tax attachment imposed on the company valued at over EGP 200 million.
- Assisting two major pharmaceutical companies in lifting an attachment imposed on their accounts in multiple banks, based on a claimed real estate taxes dues amounting to hundreds of millions of EGP.
- Representing a leading media service provider in a case in relation to the Syndicate of Applied Arts Designers Stamp Tax imposed because of its execution of multi-million-dollar technology and telecom supply contracts.
- Advising major manufacturing companies in reducing or nullifying tax claims with respect to real estate tax dues before the Administrative Court.
- Obtaining final awards in favor of many major companies from the Egyptian Court of Cassation related to value added tax claims.
- Representing several clients in tax and customs evasion before the Public Prosecution and all competent Courts of various degrees.
- Advising major companies in claims related to customs duties before all relevant authorities and Egyptian courts.
