07/07/2023
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Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) has allowed 15 home business activities with easy licensing procedures for such businesses.
“Find out what activities are allowed to start your home business,” said the Ministry in a tweet, sharing the details of the activities and the licensing process.
The allowed home business activities include preparation of Arabic sweets of various kinds, serving meals on occasions, tailoring and sewing women’s clothing, embroidery and making dresses, parcel and gift wrapping activities and website design.
Other activities are photocopying and photography activities, packaging documents, memos, bindings and letters, making and preparing perfumes and bukhoor, making and preparing cosmetics, and preparing pies and pastries.
Software maintenance and web page design, antiques and gifts, bookbinding, making and preparing coffee, spices and seasonings are also among the allowed home business activities. “If you want to run your business from home, you can apply for a home license,” the Ministry added.
Requirements for issuing a home license include commercial license services application form, building completion certificate or land plan, no objection of the owner of the property, license holder’s undertaking, To Whom It May Concern Certificate (Kahramaa), copy of identity cards of the applicant and owner of the property, and My Address number plate of the house.
The applicant can submit an online application through the single window system to obtain a home business license. If submitted online, the applicants do not need to fill out the physical form for licensing services. Registration and Commercial Licenses Department of MoCI issues licenses to carry out commercial activity at home, which do not require high costs, rely on personal skills mainly, and do not use disturbing equipment or dangerous materials.
This initiative aims to regulate home businesses, opening up areas for entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses and encouraging them to be creative and develop and support their abilities and ideas, to invest in their own projects by allowing them to engage in certain business activities from their homes.
It constitutes a motive for the expansion and development of their projects and the opening of shops that will contribute to the economic development and economic diversity. The ministry had launched several initiatives in order to regulate the business environment and create a conducive investment environment for the private sector and entrepreneurs, such as the initiative to regulate street vendors’ businesses.
The ministry had earlier decided to provide comprehensive establishment and renewal services only via the 'Single Window' platform.
The Single Window advantages include renewal from one to five years, and renewal can also be done without being restricted to the condition that commercial records and licences should expire within 60 days.©
*NIDO-QATAR Secretariat*
