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Saudi weighs income tax on expat workers

    Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is considering a plan to tax millions of foreign residents as the kingdom seeks to reduce its reliance on oil revenue after the plunge in crude prices. The proposal was included in the country’s National Transformation Plan, an ambitious multi-year program released this week. But the tax element is only “an initiative that will be ...

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Iran to seek investors for $3bn refinery project

  Bloomberg Iran will seek international investors for a $3 billion refinery project in the country’s south as the Persian Gulf nation looks to boost sales of its oil and natural gas products in Asia. The refining complex on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast will seek to raise as much as 80 percent of the capital needed from international partners or ...

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Turkey firm wins Morocco tram deal

  Emirates Business Morocco’s Casa Transports has awarded Turkey’s Yapi Merkezi an €83m ($94m) contract for the construction of Line 2 of the Casablanca tram line. The line will feature 20 stations, with construction expected to take a two-and-a-half years, according to a rail industry publication. Line 2 will start where the western branch of Line 1 terminates, at Boulevard ...

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