Overview
Identifiers
Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Qatar and submit them as strings on the application body.
Tax ID: Issued on registration at dhareeba.gov.qa; required for all entities with Qatar-source income. No VAT — Qatar has not implemented VAT as of 2026-05-06 despite 2015 GCC VAT Framework Agreement.
Registration number: Mainland CR is the businessEntityId. QFC entities carry a separate CRO number — collect jurisdiction indicator at onboarding.
Sector regulators
QCB · QFMA · QFCRA · QFIU
Legal structures
How documents combine
For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.Documents to collect
The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.Collection notes
- Legal Registration: Contains CR number, legal form, activities, registered date. QFC entities: QFC Certificate of Incorporation from CRO.
- Constitutive Documents: Must be notarised and authenticated by Ministry of Justice; filed at MoCI on incorporation. QFC: Constitution / Incorporation Document filed with CRO.
- Tax Registration: Issued via Dhareeba portal (dhareeba.gov.qa). No VAT certificate exists as VAT is not yet in force.
- Operating Permit: Issued by Ministry of Municipality; premises-specific; renewed annually with attested lease.
- Sector-Specific License: Required only for regulated-sector entities. QFCRA Authorisation Certificate is the QFC-sector equivalent.
- Ownership Records: WLL: partner details in notarised MoA. QSC: shareholder register in governance filings. QFC: shareholder register on QFC CRO public register.
- Governance Records: WLL: manager(s) named in MoA. QSC: board members listed in CR and governance filings. QFC LLC: Director and Secretary on CRO register.
- Signing Authority: Foreign-signed POAs require notarisation, legalisation (embassy chain — Qatar is not a Hague Apostille party), and Arabic translation.
- Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
- Good Standing: Qatar’s Commercial Registration Certificate is valid for one year and must be renewed annually; an unexpired CR is itself the proof that the entity is active and authorised to do business. Banks treat a current CR (or a freshly-extracted CR-extract from the Single Window certificates service) as the good-standing attestation. QFC entities follow the parallel QFC CRO regime with the same pattern.
Person roles
When you submit a person on the application body, set theirrole to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.
Additional fields
Country-specific fields you’ll need to collect during onboarding, beyond the document uploads.Notes
- Mainland vs. QFC bifurcation is hard: A QFC-registered entity has no MoCI CR number — it has a QFC CRO number and is governed by common law. Collect jurisdiction indicator at onboarding; do not apply mainland document checklist to QFC entities.
- Qatar is not a Hague Apostille party. Documents executed abroad for use in Qatar (and vice versa) require full embassy legalisation chain — no apostille shortcut. Verify at HCCH Status Table before accepting apostilled documents.
- No VAT in Qatar as of 2026-05-06. Despite the 2015 GCC VAT Framework, Qatar has not enacted VAT legislation. Do not request a VAT registration certificate — it does not exist.
- 100% foreign ownership is now permissible on the mainland for most sectors under Law No. 1 of 2019; however restricted sectors still require ≥51% Qatari partner. Collect ownership split evidence for all mainland WLLs regardless.