Qatar

Company formation and compliance in Qatar.

Register onshore with MOCI — a WLL/LLC (1 to 50 partners, no minimum capital for a general LLC; a holding company needs QAR 10,000,000), a single-person company or a branch of a foreign company — with up to 100% foreign ownership in most sectors under Foreign Investment Law No. 1 of 2019, or register instead in the Qatar Financial Centre, an English-common-law country inside Qatar with its own registrar and its own 10% corporate tax. Onshore tax runs through the GTA's Dhareeba system: 10% corporate income tax under Income Tax Law No. 24 of 2018 on the foreign-owned profit share (the Qatari/GCC-resident share is exempt), 5% withholding tax on qualifying payments to non-residents, and NO VAT, no sales tax and no personal income tax. The return, with audited accounts, is due within four months of the year end. Arabic is the binding language of the register, the contract of establishment and all GTA correspondence, and Qatar is not an Apostille state — foreign documents are consularised, not apostilled. MOCI publishes its fees only as a scanned schedule, so every government amount here is unpriced.