Liquidity issues may force the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) to postpone the deadline for compliance to 100% loan-to-deposit ratio by one year to the end of 2018, according to the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS).
The introduction of value added tax (VAT) in 2018 and the possibility of new taxes on items deemed harmful to individuals such as tobacco will nudge up Qatar’s consumer price inflation, shows a new report by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics.
