DOHA: Qatar’s highest court has upheld the verdict of a lower court passed in favour of a local charity and against the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning and a municipality.
The Court of Cassation, in its ruling, said the charity was right in its insistence that it wouldn’t pay any fee for registering rent contracts with municipalities in respect of the properties it owned.
The charity took the municipality to court after the latter demanded that they pay the fee to register rent contract for one of their properties.
The charity argued in the court that a Cabinet decision in 1995 (No. 14 of 1995) exempted charitable organisations from paying fee for rent contract registrations since they were non-profit bodies.
The lower court ruled in favour of the charity which told the court, citing the Cabinet decision, that it was a non-profit organisation fighting poverty and helping the needy irrespective of their nationality.
The municipality appealed at the highest court which upheld the ruling of the lower court, Al Sharq reported yesterday. The dispute between the municipality and the charity arose over one of its properties rented out to a local bank, the daily said.
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