'21/2 TAXES IN QATAR'

Title:

'21/2 TAXES IN QATAR'

Contributor:

Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
India Office (correspondent)
Petroleum Concessions Limited, Manager, Bahrain (correspondent)

Date:

1940/1941

Description:

This file concerns protests by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the British Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the plan of Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, the Ruler of Qatar, to impose a system of taxation on its employees and the question of whether this breaches Article 10 of the Qatar Oil Concession. Correspondents in this file include: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Major Reginald George Evelin Alban, Political Agent at Bahrain; Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited; and the India Office, London.1 file (13 folios)The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. File notes appear at the rear of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 15; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Petroleum industry
Concessions, Oil, Qatar
Taxation

Geographic region:

Qatar

Extent:

1 file (13 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0003cd_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0003cd_en
IOR/R/15/2/606

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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