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Free transfer of standard operations without restriction of funds by authorised intermediaries (Banks, Post Offices) based on a simple declaration: salaries, profits, dividends and other investment income, fees, rent, royalties, licensing fees, expenses for technical assistance or provision of services, operating expenses, medical and hospitalisation expenses

Regional Trade Membership
Membership of regional groups in Africa and the region (SADC, COMESA, COI, Indian Ocean Rim –intercontinental organisation comprising countries of Africa, the Middle East, Southern Asia, South-east Asia and Australia) raising the best possible prospects for market expansion

Enterprises in Export processing Zones:
- Export processing Zone System (export-orientated industries);
- Research and Prospecting Enterprises benefit from Business Tax (IBS) exemption for the first 15 years as from start-up of the building works;
- Industrial Transformation Enterprises and Basic Intensive Production Enterprises benefit from Business Tax (IBS) exemption for the first 5 years of actual operation;
- Service enterprises benefit from Business Tax exemption for the first 2 years of actual operation;
- Temporary admission and duty exemption for building materials and accessories, capital goods, raw materials and intermediary goods included in the manufacturing and construction process;
- Duty-free entry for importation of personal effects and goods of expatriate workers

Major mining investments:
- Free transfer of foreign currency necessary for the needs of the investment project;
- Business Tax (IBS) exemption;
- Duty and Tax exemption on importation of materials;
- Capital goods necessary for the construction, equipment and maintenance of infrastructures of public utility, personal effects and objects of expatriate employees;
- Right to export mining products with no restrictions;
- Possibility of opening foreign currency bank accounts

Investment guarantees:
Reassuring framework for a better guarantee of investments :
- Madagascar’s affiliation to the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) (insurance for political risks);
- Madagascar’s membership of the African Trade Insurance Agency (guarantee for international financial and commercial transactions);
- Membership of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) with national structures, the Office Malgache de la Propriété Intellectuelle [Madagascar Intellectual Property Bureau] and the Office Malgache des Droits d’Auteurs (OMDA) [Madagascar Copyright Bureau];
- Creation of the Madagascar Centre of Arbitration and Mediation (CAMM): an independent organisation to which the investor may resort in the case of dispute over investments, in collaboration with WIPO, the International Trade Centre UNCTAD-WTO, and Juris International

Available Guarantee Funds for banks investment loans

Open and efficient legislative, regulatory and tax framework
- Launch of the national land tenure programme whose objective is land management favourable for private investment, agricultural production, management, protection and renewal of natural resources;
- Law No. 2003-028 of 27/08/03 and Decree No. 2003-897 of 27/08/03 guaranteeing access to land by foreigners and long-term (emphyteotic) leases.

Investment protection and promotion agreements signed with the Union Belgo-Luxembourgeoise, France and Germany.