Doing Business in Oman - World Bank Group

Region	Middle East & North Africa
Income Category	High income
Population	2,846,145
GNI Per Capita (US$)	23,315

Doing Business 2013 Rank	Doing Business 2012 Rank	Change in Rank
47	47	0

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points)	Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points)	Improvement in DTF** (% points)
67.4	66.3	1.1

Topic Rankings	DB 2013 Rank	DB 2012 Rank	Change in Rank
Starting a Business	73	67	-6
Dealing with Construction Permits	59	58	-1
Getting Electricity	54	58	4
Registering Property	18	20	2
Getting Credit	83	97	14
Protecting Investors	100	98	-2
Paying Taxes	10	8	-2
Trading Across Borders	49	48	-1
Enforcing Contracts	107	107	No change
Resolving Insolvency	77	79	2

Paying Taxes

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This data shows the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. These measures include the number of payments an entrepreneur must make; the number of hours spent preparing, filing, and paying; and the percentage of their profits they must pay in taxes.

DB 2013 Rank	10	DB 2012 Rank	8	Change in Rank	-2

DB 2013 DTF** (% points)	91.2	DB 2012 DTF** (% points)	91.2	Improvement in DTF** (% points)	0.0

Indicator	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	OECD
The total number of tax payments per year. The indicator reflects the total number of taxes and contributions paid, the method of payment, the frequency of payment and the number of agencies involved for a standardized case during the second year of operation. View methodology Payments (number per year)	14	19	12
The time it takes to prepare, file and pay (or withhold) the corporate income tax, the value added tax and social security contributions (in hours per year). View methodology Time (hours per year)	62	184	176
The amount of taxes on profits paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits. View methodology Profit tax (%)	10.0	11.9	15.2
The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions on labor paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits. View methodology Labor tax and contributions (%)	11.8	16.5	23.8
The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profit that are not already included in the categories of profit or labor taxes. View methodology Other taxes (%)	0.1	3.9	3.7
The total tax rate measures the amount of taxes and mandatory contributions payable by the business in the second year of operation, expressed as a share of commercial profits. View methodology Total tax rate (% profit)	22.0	32.3	42.7

Tax or mandatory contribution	Payments (number)	Time (hours)	Statutory tax rate	Tax base	Total tax rate (% profit)
Employer paid - Social security contributions	12	12	11%	gross salaries	11.8
Corporate income tax	1	50	12%	taxable profit	10
Chamber of commerce fee	1		OMR 250	fixed fee	0.1
Totals:	14	62			22.0

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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