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UAE
Doctrine of Economic Substance in the UAE
The introduction of the Doctrine in the UAE brings the UAE in line with other jurisdictions that have recently issued economic substance legislation and affirms the UAE’s commitment to addressing concerns around the shifting of profits derived from certain mobile business activities to “no or nominal tax jurisdictions” without corresponding local economic activities. Legal blog
UAE
كيفية احتساب مكافأة نهاية الخدمة في الإمارات العربية المتحدة
سوف نستهدف هنا الوصول إلى كيفية احتساب مكافأة نهاية الخدمة بما يتماشى مع ما نص عليه قانون العمل في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة وما دأب عليه القضاء فيها، إضافة إلى طرح تعاريف الألفاظ التي أوردها القانون، للوصول إلى نتيجتين: الأولى؛ ما هو الأساس الذي تحتسب عليه مكافأة نهاية الخدمة، والثانية؛ كيفية احتساب حدها الأقصى. Legal blog
UAE
Local Partner Share contribution in the UAE: What You Need to Know
For entrepreneurs seeking to set up their business in the mainland jurisdiction of the UAE, this is a useful guide to know your rights and obligations. Legal blog
UAE
New Amendment to the Gratuity Regime in DIFC Employment Law
A new law amendment is set to be issued on the end of service gratuity regime in Dubai International Financial Centre. The law amendment is expected to set a monthly mandatory contribution by the employees for accruing their end of service gratuity. Legal blog
UAE
Termination Without a Valid Reason - What Can You Do?
An interview-format article covering the topic of employment termination without a valid reason in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW. Ludmila discusses the aspects of termination, like notice periods, end of service benefits, arbitrary dismissal, unpaid salaries etc. Legal blog
UAE
Failing to Honour Bounced Cheques in Loans and Other Transactions
An interview-format article covering the topic of loans and bounced cheques in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW. Legal blog
UAE
Can My Employer Hold My Passport?
An interview-format article covering the topic of an employer demanding to hold an employees passport. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of LAWGICAL with LYLAW. Legal blog
Egypt
النظام القانوني لشركات الشخص الواحد وفقاً لقانون الاستثمار المصري
استحدث قانون الاستثمار المصري الجديد رقم 72 لسنة 2017 نظام شركة الشخص الواحد (الشركات الفردية) لتشجيع الأفراد والمشروعات الصغيرة ومتناهية الصغر على تأسيس شركات لأنشتطتهم سواء التجارية أو الصناعية والاستفادة من الحوافز والضمانات التى يمنحها القانون للشركات الاستثمارية الأخرى. Legal blog
UAE
Why Is It Important for Non-Muslim Expats to Have a WILL in the UAE?
An interview-format article covering reasons why a non-Muslim expatriate should have a will in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW. Ludmila sheds light in this article on the right time and place to start the procedure based on tested practices in the UAE. Legal blog
UAE
What is the Financial Action Task Force?
This article will discuss what is FATF, why is it important, what is the United Arab emirates role, how they are implementing it and what does it have to do with the immigration industry. Legal blog
UAE
New Job Scam currently trending – Job Scam Alert Part II
Further to my article Scam Alert: Fake UAE Job Offers, I believe the scam artists have read the same. Yes, I call them the artists as it is an art to fool people. They have paid attention to every aspect of my article and now have come up with an innovative way to scam the job seekers. Therefore, my revised strategy in this article. Legal blog
Bahrain
The Non-Compete Clause in Employment Contracts
One of the biggest roadblocks which every employee faces when trying to switch job is the non-compete clause in an employment contract. Most of the professionals do not carefully go through the terms and conditions while signing a contract, and due to the excitement, ignore the non-compete clause which becomes a problem for them at a later stage while trying to switch their job. Legal blog
Turkey
Obtaining Turkish Citizenship by Investment: Why You Need a Lawyer
Many countries are now providing residency and/or citizenship to foreign investors, in a global trend to encourage investments in many sectors. Among these are real estate, trade, banking and others. Such conditions vary from one country to another subject to their respective laws and regulations. Legal blog
UAE
Economic Substance Law in the UAE: Ahead with Compliance and Governance
Tax evasion is a serious offence on the local and international levels that had to be controlled and regulated with new laws, in an international effort to combat this violation. As a part of the international community, the UAE had issued a law (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 31 of 2019) in the same direction requiring all in-scope UAE entities to have demonstrable economic substance. Legal blog
UAE
Corporate Governance for Non-Listed Companies
This is the last article in series of articles written by the author to give better insight to the readers about the corporate governance practices under the best practice principles and the UAE legal system through innovative suggestions of its implementation for your organisation. Legal blog
UAE