Why Morocco?
Morocco is an ancient yet progressive country with a rich culture and history. It is blessed with beautiful beaches and breathtaking scenery, and has a warm temperature climate with 330 days of sunshine a year, and is the closest true winter sun destination to the UK (three hour flight).
In 2002 the King of Morocco put in place the ”King’s vision 2010”. Two of the primary aims of this vision were significantly improve the infrastructure of the country and increase tourist numbers from 2 million to 10 million per year. So far there has been 20 billion Euros of outside investment that will be used on various major infrastructure projects, and 8 billion Euros worth of developments being built. Tourist numbers are currently up to approximately 8 million per year. These visitors create a huge demand for services and accommodation (especially resort accommodation). It’s an exciting time in Morocco’s history, it has great potential and now is a fantastic time to get involved from a development and investment point of view.
Key facts about Morocco and its continued development:
• Stable monarchy.
Ensuring a safe long term investment
• Open sky agreements: Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Royal Air Maroc, Atlas Blue,
BMI, and Thomson Airlines have regular flights into Morocco, both to
Tangier and Marrakech.
Ensuring low cost flights and more frequent usage
• Property prices up to 50% less than comparable resorts worldwide.
More value for your investment
• Property price growth experienced of 15‐25% p.a. over the last 4
years.
As an emerging market, achieving real capital growth
• Lower cost of living than European neighbouring countries.
More attractive to long term investors and tourists
• Growth of Morocco reflected in stock exchange, where real estate
index registered the highest growth, four times that of 2005 (Oxford
Business Group)
A real market growing to attract additional investors for a realistic
growth of investment
• In June 2006, the government sold €500m in bonds on international
markets. These 10‐year maturity bonds, attracting investor from
Europe, the US and the Middle East were oversubscribed by more
than three times. (Oxford Business Group)
Indicative of a very desirable market and product
• Telecoms & IT: Roll out of 3G service (first in North Africa), Internet
take‐up rates: 50k in 2003, 450k in 2007. (Oxford Business Group)
Indicative of an expanding domestic and industrial base
Tax Incentives
• No Property or Garbage Tax applicable for first 5 years
Equivalent of UK rates
• No Rental Income Tax applicable for first 3 years
Good for a base rate tax payer but a significant plus for a higher rate
tax payer
• No Capital Gains tax applicable after 10 years (20% applicable 0 to 5
years, 10% applicable 6‐10 years, over 10 tax exempt) in Morocco
A real achievement of capital growth which the investor gets to keep
• No Inheritance Tax applicable on any Moroccan property (with a
Moroccan will)
• Double Taxation Agreement with UK.
Tax planning within the UK will be required for worldwide assets
N.B. Actual taxation advice should always be taken from a Tax Advisor
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