How does Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL) as an investment destination fit into the context of the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP)?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Zainal Amanshah, CEO, InvestKL from The Report: Malaysia 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | Prime Minister Najib Razak on realising ASEAN’s potential from The Report: Malaysia 2014
The eyes of the region and the world will be on Malaysia in 2015, a historic date which will see the establishment of the ASEAN Community. It is the culmination of a five-decade-long effort of region-building. The foreign ministers who signed the Bangkok Declaration in 1967, my father included, could scarcely have imagined the heights to which...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Emphasising local growth: Salman Al Sudairi, Managing Partner of Riyadh Office, the Law Office of Salman M. Al-Sudairi in Association with Latham & Watkins, on addressing the requirements of Saudiisation from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014
One of the most challenging issues for investors in the Kingdom is how to adequately and commercially address the requirements of the Saudiisation policy. This is a particular challenge for foreign investors, who often have a harder time recruiting Saudi workers. The rationale behind the policy is clear: the Kingdom has a very young population...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Greater clarity: Jacques Fakhoury, KSA Country Leader, PwC, on improved compliance and regulation of the tax environment from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014
The Kingdom’s tax administration has, until recently, relied mostly on self-declaration and self-assessment from taxpayers. Very few control tools and mechanisms were employed by the Department of Zakat and Income Tax (DZIT) to enforce compliance by tax- and (religious levy) payers with the rules. Indeed, Zakat and tax certificates were the...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Chairman and President, Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014
To what extent can pilgrims coming to the Kingdom for Hajj and Umrah be encouraged to combine leisure tourism with these religious events?
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Shoaibi, Director-General, Institute of Public Administration (IPA) from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014
How is the government ensuring a level playing field in the application and promotion processes within the public sector?