Finance Minister Amr El Garhy is expected to attend the House’s Budget Committee's discussions on Monday of a bill that would hike government service fees, MP Yasser Omar tells Al Borsa. If passed, the bill will increase fees for a number of different services, including passport issuance, expat resident visas, and vehicle and gun registration, among the others. The hike is expected to earn the state EGP 3-4 bn for the year, ministry sources said. The bill has been on hold since April and MPs had pushed it over from their previous session to avoid declaring any new price increases given the surge in inflation levels at the time, which have since begun to cool.

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