Registering your lease in Muscat: who pays the 3%, and what happens if you skip it
The landlord registers and pays, unless your contract says the tenant does.
- By law the landlord registers the lease with the municipality, unless you both agree that the tenant will do it.
- The fee is the landlord's. If you register the lease yourself, you can take the fee off the rent.
- In Muscat the fee is 3% of the monthly rent times the contract period. A lease of OMR 100 a month for a year costs OMR 36.
- Register within one month of signing. A lease that is not registered cannot be relied on before any official body, and registering late adds a fine of three times the fee for the period of delay.
- Lease services are online: you can register, renew, change or cancel a lease on the Muscat Municipality website. Renewal is also offered in the Baladiyati app and at Sanad offices.
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