Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud.
The Qatari government has approved a draft law on a 10% tax for hotels and ‘tourist’ restaurants during a recent cabinet meeting.
The meeting, which was presided over by HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud, approved the tax which will now be forwarded to the country’s Advisory Council, reports Qatar’s Gulf Times.
The proposed tax could, however, be reduced to 5% on the condition that a proportion of the business’s revenue is allocated towards the training and development of Qatari employees as well as allocating another part for these employees’ ‘extra bonuses’.
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