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Articles of the author Khaled Al Solaiman
Selective tax and our health
Okaz THE local media has recently quoted Solaiman Al-Dohayan, deputy director of the department of the indirect tax at the General Authority of Zakat and Tax, as saying that there was a strong trend to expand the domain of the selective tax to cover (...)

05 - 04 - 2017
The Education Ministry is alone to blame
Okaz I AGREE with the minister of education who said the Saudi teacher in government schools today is part of the educational problem but I politely beg the question: Who made the teacher part of the problem and not part of the solution? Who is in (...)

02 - 03 - 2017
Apologizing to a consumer
AT a car rental office at Los Angeles airport, the concerned employee was late by about 40 minutes to prepare my rented car. I was surprised when he gave me the keys of a car, which was much superior to the one I had booked, and offered me a (...)

21 - 07 - 2016
The chilling water bill
The recent statement of Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, on high water tariffs proved the veracity of public criticisms against the Ministry of Water and Electricity, which has totally ignored (...)

21 - 04 - 2016
Suffocation by negligence
FOR the second time a child has died in a private school bus in Jeddah. The second incident occurred even before the tears of the parents of the first victim may have not dried yet. The former Education Minister Azzam Al-Dakheel issued a daring and (...)

06 - 04 - 2016
Loans or fetters?
I HELD my horses for a long time before writing about the housing financing programs announced by the Ministry of Housing. At the outset, I thought that the financing programs were optional and not compulsory for those who do not want them. I never (...)

17 - 03 - 2016
Bounties locked up in drawers
ACCORDING to news reports, the administrative courts have since the beginning of the year issued more than 26,000 rules in favor of a number of military and civilian retirees. The rules called for paying these retirees their dues and other (...)

10 - 03 - 2016
Ministry of realtors
Okaz Has the Ministry of Housing become only concerned with the development of the real estate activities so that its minister predicts the imminent end of the stagnation of the real estate market and the return of its boom by mid-2016? We were (...)

24 - 02 - 2016
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