Bulgaria has a strategic location in the center of Southeastern Europe and the main roads of Europe to the Middle East and Asia pass through
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- - Bulgaria is strategically located and provides access to the following markets:
- - South-East Europe – a 122 million inhabitant, high growth market
- - EU – Bulgaria offers the lowest cost , zero tariff access to a 500 million inhabitant market
- - CIS, Middle East and North Africa
- - Bulgaria offers a combination of political and macroeconomic stability and incentives for doing business:
- - Stable parliamentary democracy; EU, NATO and WTO member
- - Bulgaria’s currency is fixed to the Euro under a currency board arrangement
- - Lowest tax rate and one of the lowest labor costs in the EU coupled with special incentives for investors
- - EU funding – more than €8 bn in EU funds over the next years
Source: Bulgarian National Bank, Eurostat Source: Bulgarian National Bank
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Source: Bulgarian National Bank Source: Bulgarian National Bank
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Taxation in Bulgaria:
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