Investment incentives

 

Investment incentives can be both fiscal and non fiscal. 

Fiscal incentives include paying only a flat fee of 10% of the CIF (cost, insurance and freight) value of building and finishing materials instead of import duty, VAT and other taxes. There are several other tax exemptions on imported goods including: machinery and raw materials; privileges on movable property and equipment such as personal car, personal and household properties; equipment in the education field; specialized vehicles; tourist chartered airplanes; medical equipments, medical products, agricultural equipments and livestock; equipment meant for tourism and hotel industry...

Non fiscal incentives include free initial one-year work permits for foreign workers and the aquisition of permanent residency (granted to an investor if he deposits an amount of at least USD 500,000 on an account in a Rwandan commercial bank for a period no less than six months).

The full list of incentives are listed in annexes I and II of the law relating to investment and export promotion and facilitation.


 

To apply for incentives, an investor must first be registered as an investor by obtaining an investment certificate issued by Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

To obtain the investment certificate, applicants must prove that they will invest more than USD 250,000 for foreigners and more than USD 100,000 for local investors. They must be registered as either domestic or foreign companies in Rwanda in order to apply for the investment certificate.