UPDATE: Qatar and Oman delays VAT until 2021

3 February 2020

Qatar and Oman have recently announced that they will delay the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) until at least 2021.

Qatar and Oman are part of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) and all of these countries had agreed to implement a harmonised VAT regime of 5% by 2018. The GCC countries consist of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates

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