Fares Abi Nader

ALDIC is a Lebanese association aiming to promote tax ethics and compliance by informing citizens about their rights and obligations and by enlightening them on issues and challenges of taxation, in particular, to encourage them to seek greater control over the management of public funds at all levels of the administration. Philosophy and vision: Public finances are the backbone of the state policy. Indeed, it is through effective management of public resources that the modern state can realize the ultimate mission assigned to it, namely to ensure the well-being of its citizens by guaranteeing them access to education, health, employment, and retirement, as well as a number of public services. However, proper management of public funds requires active participation on the part of citizens, who, in a democratic system such as Lebanon, have not only the right but also the duty to ask for accountability from their representatives. However, two obstacles hold them from exercising democratic control. The first is due to the state of passivity and indifference in which many of them have sunk, convinced that they are powerless to change anything. The second is related to their lack of knowledge of fiscal and budgetary rules in force in Lebanon due to their technical nature, complexity and dispersal of texts. It is therefore by acknowledging the role to be played by the civil society that the Lebanese Association for Taxpayers’ Rights (ALDIC) was born, and it has set, among other missions, to promote knowledge and citizenship in fiscal matters. It also offers, through its expertise and its network of highly qualified professionals, to work and collaborate with public authorities for an overhaul of fiscal and tax systems in force.

Opera Lebanon is a company based in Lebanon. It's mission is to create awareness and passion for Arabic opera through spectacularly staged, innovative new productions, masterfully combining original symphonic music and the poetic aesthetics of the Arabic language, accessible to diverse communities and a wider audience throughout the Arab world and beyond.

ALDIC is a Lebanese association aiming to promote tax ethics and compliance by informing citizens about their rights and obligations and by enlightening them on issues and challenges of taxation, in particular, to encourage them to seek greater control over the management of public funds at all levels of the administration. Philosophy and vision: Public finances are the backbone of the state policy. Indeed, it is through effective management of public resources that the modern state can realize the ultimate mission assigned to it, namely to ensure the well-being of its citizens by guaranteeing them access to education, health, employment, and retirement, as well as a number of public services. However, proper management of public funds requires active participation on the part of citizens, who, in a democratic system such as Lebanon, have not only the right but also the duty to ask for accountability from their representatives. However, two obstacles hold them from exercising democratic control. The first is due to the state of passivity and indifference in which many of them have sunk, convinced that they are powerless to change anything. The second is related to their lack of knowledge of fiscal and budgetary rules in force in Lebanon due to their technical nature, complexity and dispersal of texts. It is therefore by acknowledging the role to be played by the civil society that the Lebanese Association for Taxpayers’ Rights (ALDIC) was born, and it has set, among other missions, to promote knowledge and citizenship in fiscal matters. It also offers, through its expertise and its network of highly qualified professionals, to work and collaborate with public authorities for an overhaul of fiscal and tax systems in force.

Opera Lebanon is a company based in Lebanon. It's mission is to create awareness and passion for Arabic opera through spectacularly staged, innovative new productions, masterfully combining original symphonic music and the poetic aesthetics of the Arabic language, accessible to diverse communities and a wider audience throughout the Arab world and beyond.

Abington Advisory is a management consulting firm based in France, Lebanon, Dubaï, Canada, Switzerland and Indonesia. While being internationally located, we work as a team to develop new value creation models focused on co-creation, networking of competencies and extended knowledge sharing. Abington supports clients in leveraging competencies and ideas that can add value to their ecosystems. As the first Darwinian consultancy, we consider Darwins theory of evolution as a strong inspirational model that can be adapted to business environments. In this conviction, we develop tailor-made solutions for our clients and support them throughout their entire transformation process. Get in touch with us, if you believe that Evolution Leads The World.

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