Bookkeeping in Qatar
Monthly bookkeeping for a Qatari company, kept audit-ready because audited financial statements must accompany the corporate income tax return filed on Dhareeba within four months of the year end. There is no VAT cycle to work to — Qatar imposes no VAT or sales tax — so the monthly rhythm is bank and ledger reconciliation, tracking the shareholder nationality split that drives the 10% charge on the foreign-owned profit share, and capturing payments to non-residents that carry 5% withholding tax. Payroll records carry a social insurance obligation for Qatari national employees only; expatriate employees are not covered. Records and GTA correspondence are in Arabic, and a draft e-invoicing law was reportedly approved in 2026 as a precursor to VAT, so the position should be rechecked.
A company that wants its books closed every month by someone who will notice the problem before the auditor does.
Timeline
1–2 weeks
From kick-off to hand-over, once we have what we need from you.
Commitment
Minimum term 3 months
Billed monthly. After 3 months it continues month to month and either side may end it with 30 days' notice.
How we work
One named lead
The same person from the first call to hand-over, not a queue.
What you get
- Monthly ledger maintenance and journal entries
- Bank, card and vendor reconciliation
- Sales and purchase register upkeep
- Input-credit matching against the filed returns
- A monthly closing pack: profit and loss, balance sheet and cash position
- A named accountant who answers your questions in the same month
What is not included
- The statutory audit and the auditor's fee. An auditor is appointed separately
- Tax and return filing, which are separate services on this site
- Accounting software licences
- Reconstructing prior-year books, quoted separately after a look at the state of them
- Any representation before a tax authority
Anything here can be added to a bookkeeping engagement, quoted separately before it starts.
What we need from you
Projects run late for one reason far more than any other: waiting on something only you can provide. These are the ones that hold the clock.
- Bank statements for every account, monthly
- Sales and purchase invoices as they are raised
- The payroll register and statutory deduction records
- Read access to your accounting software, or agreement to use ours
How it runs
You will see these exact stages update in your client portal as we progress.
Records Received
The month's bank statements, invoices and payroll records collected.
Reconciled
Bank and ledger reconciliation complete, with non-resident payments flagged for withholding tax and the ownership split maintained for the exempt-profit computation.
Books Closed
Management pack delivered and the ledgers kept audit-ready for the annual audited statements.
Ready to start?
This one is priced to your situation — most of what we do needs a local filing agent, so we scope it rather than guess. Tell us the specifics and we come back with a fixed quote and a confirmed timeline, within one business day.
Not sure this is the right service? A paid expert call is credited against your order.
A monthly engagement, not a filing
No authority is involved and there is no statutory fee. The price on this page buys the scope described on this page; work outside it is quoted separately and approved by you first, and either side may end the engagement after the minimum term. Your proposal and engagement letter are the binding documents.