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Doing Business 2017: Summary of Qatar's Business Environment

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report provides a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses in Qatar. It measures and benchmarks regulations across 11 key areas of the business life cycle, including starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and labor market regulation. The report uses two main metrics: the Distance to Frontier (DTF) score and the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) ranking.

Qatar is ranked 83rd in the EoDB ranking and has a DTF score of 63.66, indicating it has made progress in improving its business environment. The report also includes data for other comparator economies in the Middle East and North Africa region, allowing for comparative analysis.

Main Points

1. Methodology and Scope

• The report covers 190 economies, including Somalia for the first time.
• It includes a gender dimension in some indicators, such as starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts.
• The methodology has been updated with the addition of postfiling processes in the paying taxes indicator, which includes tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• The DTF score measures how far an economy is from the best regulatory practices on each indicator, on a scale from 0 to 100.

2. Ease of Doing Business Ranking

• The ranking is based on the DTF scores of the 10 indicators included in the EoDB ranking.
• Qatar's rank improved from 74 in 2016 to 83 in 2017, a change of -9.
• The ranking is relative and does not reflect the absolute change in the regulatory environment.

3. Key Indicators for Qatar

• Starting a Business: Qatar ranks 91, with a DTF score of 86.06. The process involves 8 procedures for men and 9 procedures for women, taking 8.5 days for men and 9.5 days for women.
• Dealing with Construction Permits: Qatar ranks 21, with a DTF score of 79.16. The process involves 16 procedures, taking 58 days and costing 2% of warehouse value.
• Getting Electricity: Qatar ranks 44, with a DTF score of 81.72. It requires 4 procedures, taking 90 days and costing 10.8% of income per capita.
• Registering Property: Qatar ranks 26, with a DTF score of 81.06. It involves 7 procedures, taking 13 days and costing 0.3% of property value.
• Getting Credit: Qatar ranks 139, with a DTF score of 30.00. It involves 5.0 procedures, with a strength of legal rights index of 1.0 and a depth of credit information index of 5.0.
• Protecting Minority Investors: Qatar ranks 183, with a DTF score of 26.67. The strength of minority investor protection index is 2.7, and the extent of conflict of interest regulation index is 2.0.
• Paying Taxes: Qatar ranks 1, with a DTF score of 99.44. It involves 4 payments, taking 41 hours per year and having a total tax rate of 11.3% of profit.
• Trading Across Borders: Qatar ranks 128, with a DTF score of 61.41. It takes 30 hours to export and 88 hours to import, with costs of $382 for border compliance and $754 for import compliance.
• Enforcing Contracts: Qatar ranks 120, with a DTF score of 52.79. It takes 570 days to enforce a contract and has a recovery rate of 30.4 cents on the dollar.
• Resolving Insolvency: Qatar ranks 116, with a DTF score of 38.23. It takes 2.8 years to resolve insolvency and has a recovery rate of 22.0% of estate.

Key Information

• Data Sources: The report uses data up to June 1, 2016, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover January–December 2015.
• Comparators: Data is also provided for other economies such as Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, allowing for regional comparisons.
• Best Performers: The best performer globally in most indicators is New Zealand, with Singapore and United Arab Emirates also appearing in the top rankings for certain indicators.
• Limitations: The report does not cover all aspects of the business environment, such as proximity to large markets, infrastructure quality (beyond electricity and trade), or macroeconomic conditions. It focuses on local limited liability companies in the largest business city.

Summary of Key Changes

• Gender Dimension: Introduced in the starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts indicators.
• Postfiling Processes: Added to the paying taxes indicator to measure tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• Methodology Updates: New pilot indicators on selling to the government and updated data collection methods.
• Data Coverage: Expanded to include Somalia, bringing the total number of economies to 190.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report highlights that Qatar has a highly efficient business environment, especially in the area of paying taxes, where it ranks 1st globally. However, it still faces challenges in other areas, such as getting credit, protecting minority investors, and enforcing contracts. The inclusion of a gender component in several indicators provides a more nuanced understanding of the regulatory environment for both men and women entrepreneurs. The DTF score and EoDB ranking are useful tools for policymakers to identify areas for reform and track progress over time.