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This is the best time to invest in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority - BEPZA - Featured

Bangladesh is an economical growing country and its increasing rapidly. Past few years Bangladesh plays a vital role to producing Ready Made Garments (RMG) industry and earn a lot of foreign currency. With huge number of population this industry can select their man power so easily with paying minimum wages. This is how Bangladesh is the popular global brand who can produce low cost garments in Asia.

Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority - BEPZA

Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority – BEPZA

BEPZA: Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority provide too many facilities to invest in Bangladesh. Those opportunity could easiest to accept by any investor across the globe. Here are few of those opportunity proposed by Bangladesh export processing zone authority.

Investment guarantee

  • Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, 1980 secures all foreign investment in Bangladesh.
  • OPIC’s (Overseas Investment Corporation, USA) insurance and finance programmes operable.
  • Security and safeguards available under Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of which Bangladesh is a member.
  • Arbitration facility of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) available.

 

Fiscal Incentives

  • 10 years tax holiday for the Industries to be established before 1stJanuary, 2012 and Duration and rate of tax exemption for Mongla, Ishwardi & Uttara EPZ for the industries set up after January 01, 2012
Duration of Tax Exemption Rate of Tax Exemption
First 03 years (1st , 2nd  and 3rd  year) 100%
Next 03 years (4th , 5th and 6th  year) 50%
Next 01 year (7th year) 25%

Duration and rate of tax exemption for Chittagong, Dhaka, Comilla, Adamjee,& Karnaphuli EPZ for the industries set up after January 01, 2012:

Duration of Tax Exemption Rate of Tax Exemption
First 02 years (1st  and 2nd year) 100%
Next 02 years (3rd and 4th year) 50%
Next 01 year (5th year) 25%
  • Duty free import of construction materials
  • Duty free import of machineries, office equipment & spare parts etc.
  • Duty free import and export of raw materials and finished goods
  • Relief from double taxation
  • Exemption from dividend tax
  • GSP facility available
  • Accelerated depreciation on machinery or plant allowed
  • Remittance of royalty, technical and consultancy fees allowed
  • Duty & quota free access to EU, Canada, Norway, Australia, etc

Non – Fiscal Incentives

  • 100% foreign ownership permissible
  • Enjoy MFN (most favored nation) status
  • No ceiling on foreign and local investment
  • Full repatriation of capital & dividend
  • Foreign Currency loan from abroad under direct automatic route
  • Non-resident Foreign Currency Deposit (NFCD) Account permitted
  • Operation of FC account by ‘B’ and ‘C’ type Industries allowed.

Facilities

  • No UD, IRC, ERC and renewal of Bond license
  • Work permits issued by BEPZA
  • Secured and protected bonded area
  • Off-Shore banking available
  • Import on Documentary Acceptance (DA) basic allowed
  • Back to Back L/C
  • Import and Export on CM basis allowed
  • Import from DTA (Domestic Tariff Area)
  • 10% sale to DTA (Domestic Tariff Area)
  • Customs clearance at factory site
  • Simplified sanction procedure
  • Sub-contracting with export oriented Industries inside and outside EPZ allowed
  • Relocation of foreign industries allowed
  • Accords Resident-ship and Citizenship
  • One Window same day service and simplified procedure.

Minimum wage structure-2013 are as follows:

  •   Apprentice-US$ 56.00
  •   Helper-US$ 70.00
  •   Jr. Operator-US$ 80.50
  •   Operator-US$ 85.75
  •   Sr. Operator-US$ 91.00
  •   High Skilled-US$ 140.00

The gross wage has been calculated as Basic wage + House rent 40% on Basic + Medical allowance Tk. 560 (Fixed). In addition of the above gross wage, Food or Food allowance and Transport or Transport allowance shall be provided by the enterprises.

Source
http://www.bepza.gov.bd

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Textile liability insurance

Business, Insurance
Textile & industrial liability insurance

What is Insurance?

Insurance is a helpful policy for a business or any property when it’s facing a bigger problem and unable to solve itself caused by event(s). Insurance protects yourself when you have got a car accident, house or industry burn on fire and many more. You also can buy an insurance to secure your life by getting paid when you are so much ill and unable to work properly. On the other way if you buy a life insurance you family would pay after your death. Insurance company does such things because they will get the premium continuously to support you when you got a house burn, car accident, unable to work or died.

Insurance company provide financial support, when a business goes into a huge amount of financial loss, damage, burn on fire or by any event (s) as the contract signed by both of party. Insurance gives you peace of mind and you know that if anything happens to you, your family or your business that you will be financially secure.

Somebody says “Insurance Risk-transfer mechanism that ensures full or partial financial compensation for the loss or damage caused by event(s) beyond the control of the insured party. Insurance provider company need to pay the amount of money how much was signed under a contract.”

What is textile Insurance?

Textile industry work with a huge amount of money and workers so that they could experience an accident anytime during work by electricity, fire, hazard chemical, gas and many type machinery etc. if any industry suddenly get an accident and loss too much money! Who will help them to build a new industry or fix the problem created by the accident(s)? Every textile industry needs to buy insurance and pay the premium to support them when they are in damage or loss situation.

Type of insurance:

There are too many type of insurance; from life insurance to pet insurance, here is some of insurance name are given below. Names are used mostly.

  • Life insurance
  • Car insurance
  • Industrial insurance
  • Travel insurance
  • Motor insurance
  • Fire/ House owners/ Householders insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Medical and health insurance

 

How insurance works?

First you chose for what? You want to purchase insurance and from what, event(s) you want to protect your property. After complete the task you many ask for insurance assistance to any insurance company you chose by their reputations. The consultants calculate your property value and insure the risk of an accident. Consultants determine the money you have to pay in a unit time (premium) to get support if you deserve to get paid by Insurer Company.

Choose an insurance policy:

All document and contract between insured and insurer include in this policy paper. Policy provides the information of the property you want to protect from some event(s) should be included. Estimate value of the property and amount of money should give by the policy provider after get any accident. For example; car insurance might say that it would be cover if you had an unexpected accident during driving. Insurance company might pay the bill to reconditioning the car to drive on read as it was or pay the money (as in the policy) if it’s completely unusable but not if you break a traffic signal, driving after taking alcohol, driving without driving license, and many more (as in the policy).

 Pay the premium

Premium is the amounts of money you pay each month year (sometimes at once) ensure to continue your insurance. The amount you pay depends on the risk and on the value of the events you’re insuring. Insurance company collects the money you given by the name of premium .if you don’t pay the premium than how they support you? That’s why you must need to pay the premium.

Make a claim

If something happens that’s covered by the policy, you can claim on your insurance. You tell the insurance company what happened, they check that it’s covered under your policy, and if the claim meets with what you are protected against then they pay you as agreed.

There are a few more things you should know about getting insurance. Sometimes some of policy could be danger in your critical time and insurance company could be refused to pay so please read all scream & document carefully before purchase insurance.

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