The tax is part of the first phase of income tax reforms in the country expected to bring in 10 billion Egyptian pounds.
The Gulf states have pledged billions of dollars worth of aid to Egypt since former President Mohamed Mursi’s ouster last year.
The former army chief captured 93.3 per cent of votes cast as counting nearly came to a close, judicial sources said.
This is the second time in a week that the death penalty has been imposed on a man involved in unrest in Qatif.
Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi faces only one rival – leftist Hamdeen Sabahi.
Leaders of the parliamentary groups and EU heads of state and government meet separately in Brussels on Tuesday to consider the results of the election.
Three years after the uprising against Hosni Mubarak, the vote is set to restore a pattern of rule by men from the military.
Sisi’s sole competitor is Hamdeen Sabahi, a leftist politician who finished third in the 2012 election.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE recalled their ambassadors from Doha in March.
The UAE has welcomed Sisi’s rise and the army’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Nabeel Rajab, founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, was found guilty of organising and participating in illegal protests.
The lack of progress in talks that ended last week in Vienna had raised doubts over a breakthrough by the July 20 deadline.
The Gulf state has suffered low-level civil unrest since mass protests in 2011.
Mubarak has been under house arrest at a military hospital since August.
Abdullah Elshamy, one of four reporters being held in Egypt, has been on hunger strike since Jan. 21 to protest against his detention.
King Abdullah departed the Red Sea port city of Jeddah for Morocco.
Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah will visit Iran on May 31-June 1 at the invitation of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Official news agency WAM said members of the cell had “collected funds and channelled them to a terrorist organisation, the al-Nusra Front”.
Heavily armed gunmen stormed Libya’s parliament on Sunday demanding its suspension.
Foreigners in the Gulf state are not allowed to hold political events.
The five MPs quit over a row about questioning the Gulf state’s prime minister in parliament.
Security forces have detained thousands of Brotherhood supporters since the military deposed president Mohamed Mursi last July.
Narendra Modi’s BJP party won the 2014 Indian elections with a landslide majority.
Stickers printed by far-right politician Geert Wilders display anti-Islam slogans.
Congress faces worst-ever result, Rahul Gandhi may lose seat.
Moves in the ruling family are closely watched at home and abroad for clues on who will rule the world’s top oil exporter.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel addressed a meeting of GCC defence ministers in Jeddah.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has visited most of Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE since the nuclear pact.
The resignation comes after a senior US official allegedly claimed that Nayef al-Ajmi had “a history of promoting jihad in Syria”.
Abbas Yazdi, a businessman who owns a general trading company in Dubai, disappeared last June.