Time
| Session | Speakers |
|---|
| 8:30am– 9:00am | Registration
|
| 9:00am– 9:45am | Keynote speaker: Will Pillar Two Affect Qatar’s Free Zones and Science and Technology Park? | Rick Krever, The University of Western Australia |
9:45am–11:00am
| Tax Incentives and Free Zones
| Chair: Salah Gueydi, Managing Director of Taxation, Qatar Financial Center |
Pillar 2 and amendment of income tax law in Qatar
| Yusuf Al-Dosari – Director of Tax Agreements and International Cooperation Department, GTA, Qatar |
Governance of Tax Incentives in Qatar
| Lotfi Khalil, Tax Consultant, General Tax Authority, Qatar |
‘Flow-through Entities’ and the complexities linked to their variations into (i) ‘Tax Transparent Entities’, (ii) ‘Reverse Hybrid Entities’ and (iii) ‘Hybrid Entities’, with the lens of Pillar Two.
| Giuseppe Campolo, Partner Deloitte Middle East
|
The Impact of the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement between Algeria and Qatar on Economic Partnership in the Agricultural Sector: A Case Study of Baladna Qatari Project in Algeria.
| Ali Hassen Oulal, Abu Bakr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria
Sidi Mohammed Abbou, Abu Bakr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria
|
11:00am–11:15 am
| Coffee Break
|
| 11:00am–11:30am | Keynote speaker
| Giorgia Maffini
|
11:30am–12:20pm
| Tax Incentives and impact on Tax system
| Chair: Bassam Abou Abbass, Qatar University, Qatar |
| Assessing the Impact of RHQ Tax Incentives in Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Analysis with the Modified GIDC Model for Enhancing Economic Diversification | Mohamed Tawfik, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain |
Revenue Effects of the Global Minimum Tax Under Pillar Two
| Mona Baraké, Paul-Emmanuel Chouc, Theresa Neef & Gabriel Zucman
|
GCC Tax Incentives Under Global Scrutiny: Transfer Pricing Insights for MNEs
| Mani Meyer, Qatar Transfer Pricing Leader
|
12:20pm -1:00pm
| Open Discussion and Survey on Investment Fiscal Incetives | Mahmoud Abdelatif, Qatar University |
1:00pm–2:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm | Keynote Speaker: Impact of the P2 project on tax incentives and incentive post Pillar Two
| Vikram Chand, Professor at The University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
| Tax Incentives and Tax Expenditure
| Chair: Rami Zeitun, Qatar University, Qatar |
Tracking Tax Expenditures: Lessons from the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED) and Transparency Index (GTETI)
| Agustin Redonda, Flurim Aliu, Council of Economic Policies (CEP), Switzerland |
Tax Expenditures as a policy measure to support sustainable development | Zotkaj Kasem, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
|
Tax Expenditures in Tunisia
| Aymen Bel Haj Abdallah, Ministry of Finance, Tunisia
|
| 3:45pm – 4:00pm | Closing and Concluding Remarks |