The Debt Trap: How Egypt’s Regressive Tax Policy is Deepening an Inevitable Crisis

Ref: AD-2905

Summary: the Egyptian regime’s attempts to address its deepening debt crisis are ineffective, as high debt servicing costs consume all state revenue and push the budget deficit higher. The regime’s reliance on regressive consumption taxes is socially unjust and counterproductive, burdening the poor and middle class while stifling the local demand needed for economic recovery.

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