Here are few reasons why one should invest in Bangladesh:
Bangladesh has no records of defaults in its bilateral & multi-lateral donors, and debt-service liabilities.
Bangladesh produced more than 21 million metric tons of food grains mainly rice, potatoes, and some wheat, which are sufficient to feed the country's population and create reserve stocks.
For the last 42 years of independence, Bangladesh has not occurrence of negative growth.
Bangladesh exports different local products to various sophisticated markets of Japan, USA, Europe, and other countries. In terms of garments' products, the country has an export account of more than 4 billion US dollars.
In terms of intensity and frequency of natural disasters, Bangladesh has lesser occurrences compared to Japan, Philippines, and other countries in Asia and even in America. This is because the country is located outside the zones of major earthquakes.
In the recent years, Bangladesh had carried out a major arrangement of liberalization, deregulation, and reforms in policies related to every economy sector that includes financial reforms. The reforms and liberalizations aim for the economic global changes of the country, which will facilitate through introduction of productive efficiency and international competitiveness.
Apart from above-mentioned facts, Bangladesh has the following positive aspects that will make it a desirable location for foreign investors:
Lower production costs in terms of semi-skilled and skilled labors
Cost of living is reasonable and low, and has no ethnic or communal issues
English is widely understood and spoken
Term and working capital loans from local commercial banks are permitted to foreign capital industries
Citizenship is granted to any foreigner with minimum investment of US$500,000 or by transferring an amount of US$1,000,000 to any authorized financial institutions in the country
Permanent residency is granted to any foreign with minimum investment of US$75,000
Bilateral Investment Promotion Treaties and Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements have been motioned with other countries including United Kingdom.
The fiscal and non fiscal incentives offered in Bangladesh are:
Technical assistance fees - remittance of royalty
Technical know-how fees
Someone investing 75,000 US$ will be permitted to be a permanent resident; Again, an individual investing 500,000$ will be given the citizenship of Bangladesh.
A rate of 100% tax holiday for the first two years, 50% for the next two years and 25% for the fifth year (Applicable only for districts under Dhaka and Chittagong division).
A rate of 100% tax holiday for the first three years, 50% for the next three years and 25% for the seventh year (Applicable for the rest of the country).
Accelerated reduction for newly built industries being 50% for the first year, 30% for the second year and 20% for the third year. This covers the cost of plants and machineries.
Industries exporting over 80% goods or any other service will enjoy duty free import on machines and other spare parts.
Scheme to guarantee export credit for investors.
Some export oriented businesses outside Export processing Zones allowed 20% domestic market sale.