More than 40 investment projects worth more than 2.9 billion rubles were included in the list of preferential

In Belarus, 44 investment projects worth more than 2.9 billion rubles are included in the list of preferential ones, the areas of their implementation are manufacturing, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, wholesale and retail trade, entertainment and recreation industry. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economy, BelTA has learned .

The leaders of the Brest region are implementing 17 projects with a total investment of more than 1.15 billion rubles. The TOP-3 also includes Vitebsk (10 projects) and Mogilev (9 projects) regions, with business ideas worth about 600 million rubles and about 425 million rubles, respectively.

A preferential investment project is a project implemented on the territory of Belarus (with the exception of Minsk) by an investor without concluding an investment agreement with the provision of benefits and (or) preferences. A project that corresponds to priority activities may become preferential. The investor is obliged to be an active business entity, not to be under arrest, not to have restrictions on activities. There may be other requirements related to the financial and economic situation. Additional requirements for the investment project may be determined by the Council of Ministers.

The benefits and preferences provided to such investment projects relate to construction (determination of the contractor without carrying out the procedures established by law, parallel design), taxes and duties (exemption from import customs duties, from profit tax, from the state fee for issuing special permits for the right to engage in labor activity in Belarus, deduction of VAT in full), as well as land plots (provision of a land plot included in the list, without an auction, exemption from land tax and rent for the period of project implementation, etc.).