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Experts: Qatar businesses should start preparing for VAT now

  • Nada Badawi
  • October 8, 2016
The 5 percent value-added tax (VAT) is expected to take effect here in 2018 as part of a GCC-wide agreement. It comes as Qatar's government forecasts budget deficits for the next three years amid falling oil prices.
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Expert: Qatar, GCC to roll out consumption taxes within three years

  • Peter Kovessy
  • December 20, 2015
Earlier this month, GCC finance ministers agreed to exempt 94 food items, as well as education and health services, from taxation and set a new deadline for member states to individually start levying a VAT.
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US tax collectors keeping closer watch on Americans in Qatar

  • Peter Kovessy
  • December 5, 2015
Under an agreement signed between the US and Qatar earlier this year, local banks are required to report previously private details of American customers to the IRS.
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Possibility of new taxes in Qatar sparks debate

  • Peter Kovessy
  • November 17, 2015
While the suggestion has the support of many economists and even some residents, others have argued it would be problematic for a country that already has a high cost of living.
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Report: Junk food tax could help Qatar fight obesity, raise money

  • Peter Kovessy
  • January 24, 2015
Making unhealthy food more expensive to try to reduce consumption is a new suggestion for a nation grappling with one of the highest rates of obesity in the world.
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IMF “pressuring” Qatar to introduce taxes

  • Doha News Team
  • June 2, 2011
IMF “pressuring” Qatar to introduce taxes Reports the Peninsula newspaper: DOHA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is putting pressure on Qatar to impose taxes but the country has been reluctant…
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