* Highly-skilled, multilingual workforce at Europe's most competitive wages
* Stable and predictable business and political environment
* EU membership on January 1, 2007 gives access to markets of over 500 million consumers
* The lowest operational costs and tax rates in a European market economy
* Industrial goods traded duty free between Bulgaria and the EU, EFTA, CEFTA and Turkey
* Excellent climate, natural scenery, food and hospitality
* Flat corporate income tax rate of 15% (2006 expected rate: 12%)
* VAT exemption on equipment imports for investment projects over Eur 5 million
* Annual depreciation rate of 30% for machinery & equipment, 50% for new equipment used in entirely new investment or expansion and 50% for software and hardware
* Acquisition of land and property through Bulgarian registered company with 100% foreign ownership
* Seamless administrative services through InvestBulgaria Agency
* 55 treaties for avoidance of double taxation
* 52 agreements on mutual protection and promotion of foreign investment
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