Company formation in Qatar, done properly

Khalid Khan Advisory handles the full formation of your Qatari company from one team: we confirm the right route and activity, reserve the trade name, prepare and notarise the documents, secure Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) approval, obtain the Commercial Registration and trade licence, register you with the General Tax Authority, and set up the immigration file and the first residence permits. You deal with us in plain English. We deal with MoCI, the notary, the municipality and the bank in their language and their forms.

Qatar opened to full foreign ownership under Law No. 1 of 2019, cut corporate tax to a flat 10%, and built a fast digital Single Window for registration. The opportunity is real, and so is the detail: the right platform (mainland, the Qatar Financial Centre, or a Free Zone) changes your tax, your ownership approval and your market reach. Getting that choice right at the start is most of the value.

Formation cost depends on the route, the activity and the office. Government fees on the mainland are modest (a trade-name reservation runs a few hundred riyals, the Commercial Registration and licence are set by MoCI), while a QFC or Free Zone package sits higher because of the platform's own fees. There is no fixed statutory minimum capital for most foreign-investment activities under current MoCI practice, though some activities carry their own capital rules, so we confirm yours early. We quote a single fixed fee for your scope, payable up front, with no hidden partner costs: you deal only with us.

A Qatari formation runs on a defined document set, and we prepare and chase all of it so you do not. For a mainland WLL that typically means the shareholders' passports and, for corporate shareholders, attested and legalised corporate documents (certificate of incorporation, articles, a board resolution authorising the Qatari investment and a power of attorney), the reserved trade name, the Articles of Association drafted to MoCI's form and notarised, proof of a registered office address, and the activity-specific approvals where a regulator is involved.

The step that most often sets the timeline is attestation. Corporate documents from abroad must be legalised for use in Qatar, which, depending on the country of origin, means notarisation, apostille or consular legalisation, and an Arabic translation. We start that early and in parallel with the name reservation, because a two-day registration waits three weeks for a missing stamp. For individual founders the file is lighter; for corporate groups it is the critical path, and planning it first is most of the speed.

Incorporation is the beginning, not the end. A Qatari company carries ongoing obligations that, left to lapse, produce penalties and blocked renewals: annual Commercial Registration renewal, corporate-tax filing with the General Tax Authority, the municipal licence, immigration and residence-permit renewals, and accounting to the standard Qatari authorities expect. We keep all of it on a calendar and handle it each cycle, so your renewals, your tax position and your visas never become a surprise. For most clients, this ongoing back-office is the real reason to work with a single team rather than assemble a chain of providers.