The Egyptian Tax Authority said in a statement, yesterday, Saturday, that makers of digital media content, "bloggers - YouTubers", must register with the competent value-added mission, whenever it reaches Their income is 500 thousand pounds within 12 months from the date of practicing the activity.
The tax demanded the makers of digital media content, "bloggers - YouTubers", to open a tax file, and to go to the office within which the headquarters of the activity is located, to open a tax file to register with the income tax mission. competent.
At the end of September 2020, the Egyptian Finance Minister, Mohamed Maait, revealed the issuance of a ministerial decision to establish a special unit specialized in tax treatment of e-commerce activities in Egypt.
Last July, Reda Abdel Qader, head of the Egyptian Tax Authority, said that a number of people and companies had been referred to the prosecution, and it was discovered that they were selling their goods or services through websites and are not registered with the Authority.
Abd al-Qadir stressed that the Ministry of Finance and the Tax Authority always strive to achieve tax justice and make great efforts to narrow the tax community more accurately, especially the transactions that take place through electronic platforms, and to determine who It performs it, and seizes the elements who are not registered with the authority, to include the informal economy in the official system, and to obtain the rights of the state’s public treasury.
