Procedures for Obtaining Promotional Privileges

The chart that appear on this and the following pages identify, in detail, the procedural aspects of applying for BOI privileges. The major steps along the road to approval are:

Action Required After a Project is Approved for Promotion

After receipt of the investment promotion certificate, the promoted company must meet the following conditions and inform the OBOI at each stage

• Within 30 months, the machinery and
  equipment must be imported to benefit from the reduction of, or exemption from, taxes and duties.
• Within 36 months, construction must be completed, the machinery and equipment installed, and the factory ready to begin operations. Use form F PM OP 01.
• The Promoted company must ask for written permission from the OBOI if the operation has to be halted for more than two months.
• The OBOI must give written permission before a promoted company may mortgage, sell, transfer, or rent machinery which was brougth into the country either exempt from, or at a reduced rate of tax. Similar permission must be obtained to use machinery for non-approved purposes.
• If an inspector finds that the promoted company is not meeting the prescribed conditions, the OBOI will send an official warning note. If there are insufficient reasons why the conditins are not being met, the OBOI will recommend to the Board that the promotion certificate be withdrawn, and inform the Ministry of Finance and other related agencies accordingly.