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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has many advantages upon the local and global levels so these advantages support investment in kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We can find shapes of investment in strategic sectors of the kingdom. It is the first country in the world for its energy providing to the projects of investment. In brief, investment in Saudi Arabia makes a profit for the local or foreign or common projects with high levels of gain and low risks without existing forms of taxes and monarchy registration fees. As for taxes we find that Saudi Arabia is the fifth but as for the monarchy registration costs, it is the fourth according to the report of labor performances in 2006, 2007which issued from the World Bank. According to a comprehensive study of Arab Forbes magazine in the end of 2006for performance assessment of 1616 liability companies in the Arab world ,it announced that Saudi Arabia companies have obtained the first three levels and Twenty-two Saudi companies are the best out of 50 companies in the world whereas Saudi companies are established by Saudis only which means that these companies are 100perecent Saudi but other companies with sharing of Saudi and foreign capitals .This study was by using the criteria of the marketing operational competence ,sales, income, share belonging , rights of shareholders 'belonging and the belonging of the assets .Another example, there are ten banks, in Saudi Arabia, of the best banks in the Arab world and the most developed for achieving profits. Also they are of the major banks in the world .This is according to the report of financial times in 2006 also three Saudi banks are the major banks in the Arab World. On the other hand it's the largest free economical market in the Middle East region whereas it has 25%of the total of the Arab national product. Also it has the biggest petroleum reserve in the world which is 25% where it provides the energy for the projects of investment with low prices over the whole world which makes the best way for these projects for depending on. It has natural sources of mining .Also It has a great geographical site which makes it an open market having no obstacles for Europe ,Asia and Africa .Its market has a great change of extension and purchasing .Riyal Is one of the stabile currencies of the world .There is not any restrictions for dismissal and transformations by foreign currency and also the transformations of capitals and profits outside .But as for inflation averages are very low .Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are searching with other countries how to encourage and protect investment and prevent tax duplicity. According to the previous report which issued in Feb 2007 from Milken international establishment which classifies Saudi Arabia in the first rank among the whole world because of its whole economical state which means its ability to manage and provide the projects .In addition to that it is including the decrease and stability of the rates of benefits and inflation levels also a decrease of taxes comparing with the international rates. On the other hand the majority of people in kingdom of Saudi Arabia are youth. This percentage is adapted to gradually increase because the percentage of ages of less than 1 until 15year are 45%of the whole percentage of Saudis .So the government focuses its interest on improving the human resources to include the whole ages to make availability for Saudis to be chosen by the investors. So there are many institutes were held to fulfill the needs of market. A fund of human resources development was lately held for recruiting Saudis and presenting many motivations for recruiting the citizens by the following:
*Presenting exhibitions and services to qualify, train and Recruit Saudi workers in the private sector.
*Involvement of qualifying and training the workers of the private sector.
*Bearing the responsibility of paying a sum of the salaries for Saudi workers in the private sector.
*Supporting and sharing the programs which aim at developing the possibility of recruiting and qualifying Saudi labors and substitute them
*Providing the establishments of the private sectors with necessary advances for expanding its activities and using the modern techniques for training and qualifying Saudi workers.
Doing researches and studies and presenting the technical and administrative consultations in the field of training and qualifying Saudis citizens
The foreign investment system permits for the foreign investors to treat with all the economical activities except the activities which not allowed to the foreign investment because kingdom has signed in the agreement of the international trade organization .Also the system grants the foreign investors to be their sponsorship and their employees to be attached to the licensed project .They have the right to have private real estate for practicing their activities .All the projects have the same rights ,advantages ,incentives and warranties like the local projects .The incentives are like the following :
1. Sheltering and encouraging the national industries which including the exemption of the imports products and the manufactured equipment from customs duties
2. Having the ability to have lands in the industrial cities by paying a symbolic cost.
3. Having the necessary real estate which including stay and housing for the employees
4. Having available advantages according to the bilateral and collectivism agreements which related with taxes and investment.
5. It is forbidden to make a confiscation without having a permission of the court.
6. Having the ability to transfer the capital and profits to abroad.
7. Having the ability to change the quotas of the partners in the project.
8. It is allowed to the foreign investor to own the whole project.
9. The sponsorship of the foreign investor and his non Saudis employees is for the licensed project.
Certain causes for investment In Saudi Arabia:
1-The facilities and services are available with low prices.
2-There are chances of governmental financing with low costs.
3-It is the first country in the world of imports and exports.
4-It is one of the least first seven countries in the world of inflation.
5-It is the seventh country of the world of the local assets.
6-It is one of the best eighth countries for exchanging the currencies.
7-It is the greatest financial market in the Middle East.
8-It is one of the greatest 25countries in the world of totally monetary assets.
9-It is one of the least countries which presenting advances with low prices from Saudi fund for industrial development.
10 –Dragging the losses to the following years specially the profits of the taxes.
11-General directorate of investment is providing helps and consultations for the investors.
12-It is one of the best three countries in the world of the costs for property registration (Doing business 2006).
13-It is the best country in the Middle East of rate exchange.
14-It has the biggest account of foreign investment in the Arab world for many years till now (reports of the Arab establishments for saving the investment)
15-As for the total of local products are more than 300milliar dollars and the rate of growth with an average 6% during the last three years so it has the greatest
economical situation in the Middle East.
16- It is one of the least six countries in the world of companies taxes according to the report of IMD and one of the first five countries in the world according to the
report of Doing Business IN 2006.
17-It has the most petroleum reservation in the world which equals 26% of the global reservation.
18-It is the fourth country of natural gas reservation in the world.
19-A huge market, the numbers of the citizens are more than 22million, an entrance for the market about 250million.
20-It has a high level of income and a high ability of purchasing.
21- It has a great geographical site which is between three continents and has great lines for international navigations.
22-There is an absence of local disputes because of its long political stability.
23-There is not any forms of taxes (except the profit taxes on the foreign companies which value is 20%and allow dragging the losses of investment to many numbers
… it is one of the fifth countries in the world for recruiting the workers and the flexibility of work hours.
24-There is not any strikes of the work.
25-It presents the energy with lower prices than the whole world.
26-It has a great group of the developed banks with high techniques and efficiency.
27- The rate of costs of the capital.
28-It is one of the best countries of the financial solvency.
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