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GCC ministers adopt proposal to impose VAT

Gulf finance ministers adopted yesterday a proposal to impose value-added tax (VAT) while deferring a final decision to heads of state, a source at their meeting here said. The Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC’s) committee for financial and economic cooperation asked the general secretariat of the six-nation bloc to prepare studies for imposing VAT by 2007, …

Saudi Citizenship up for grabs

More than one million expatriates including Indians, living for over 10 years in Saudi Arabia, can benefit from an amended naturalisation law, which offers them citizenship of the kingdom and related rights. Expatriates of all nationalities, who have been living in the kingdom for over 10 years, are entitled to apply for Saudi citizenship and …

spluttering…

I’m caughing a lot today, spluttering and have a dry throat to boot. Could this be that my lungs are being re-built and as it is doing so it’s being prevented by the tar and muck that’s there already? Don’t know, but hope that fixes itself quick. Pissing me off, on top of a nagging …