Omar El Shafei

Expertise

Tax law, with particular expertise in:
– Tax policy
– Transfer pricing
– Corporate taxation
– International taxation
– Tax regulatory

Key sectors:
– construction and infrastructure
– public bodies

Foreign languages: English and Arabic

Background

  • Member of the Africa Team
  • Member of the Egypt Team
  • Joined the firm in 2025
  • Senior Group Tax Manager at Orascom Construction (2022 – 2025)
  • Technical Assistant to the Minister of Finance Advisor for Tax Reforms, Ministry of Finance (2021 – 2022)
  • Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tax department (2014 – 2021)
  • Associate at Ernst & Young, Tax Department (2013 – 2014)

Qualifications

  • Accounting degree from The American University in Cairo

Knowledge Sharing

Egypt’s second tax facilities package: more details for taxpayers, but is it enough?

In the first week of June, the media began reporting on explanatory memoranda and draft legislation relating to Egypt’s second tax facilities package, first announced by the Ministry of Finance in December 2025. So far, the package includes seven amendments concerning income tax, value added …

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Egypt revives real estate tax: key changes for businesses

On 2 April, Egypt amended its Real Estate Tax Law 196/2008 through Law 3/2026 (“Amendment”). The Amendment is thus part of government efforts to boost tax revenues by digitising collection, widen the tax base by simplifying and encouraging tax reporting; and build trust bet …

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Egypt’s second tax facilities package: if not another amnesty, what’s in it for taxpayers?

On 3 December, Egypt’s Ministry of Finance (“MoF”) unveiled the main features of the second tax facilities package (“Package 2”). Unlike the first package, Package 2 is designed to make it easier for compliant taxpayers to do business. More measures could be coming, as the MoF also an …

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