Factor Costs ETHIOPIAN INVESTMENT AGENCY Factor Costs March 2012 Factor Costs Part 1: COST OF LAND ..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Urban Land ......................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Lease Holding .................................................................................................... 1 1.1.2 Minimum Lease and Rental Prices of Urban Land in Some Regions ................. 3 1.2 Rural Land ......................................................................... 16 1.2.1 Tigray National Regional State ......................................................................... 16 1.2.2 Oromiya National Regional State .................................................................... 16 1.2.3 Amhara National Regional State ...................................................................... 17 1.2.4 Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS) ........ 22 1.2.5 Benshagul Gumz Ntional Regional State ......................................................... 23 1.2.6 Somali National Regional State ........................................................................ 26 1.3 Incentives Related to Land .............................................. 26 1.3.1 Oromiya National Regional State ..................................................................... 26 1.3.2 Amhara National Regional State ...................................................................... 27 1.3.3 Tigray National Regional State ......................................................................... 28 1.3.4 Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS) ........ 28 1.3.5 Gambella National Regional State4 .................................................................. 29 1.3.6 Benshangul Gumuz National Regional State ................................................... 29 1. 3.7 Somali National Regional State ....................................................................... 29 Part 2: LABOR COST ....................................................................................................... 30 2.1 Wages and Salaries at Enterprise Level .................................................................... 30 2.2 Salaries of Civil Service Employees ............................... 30 Part 3: CONSTERACTION COSTS AND SELLING PRICE OF BUILDINGS ................... 32 3.1 Consternation Costs ........................................................ 32 3.2 Selling Prices of Buildings .............................................. 46 Part 4: TARIFFS ............................................................................................................... 48 4.1 Electricity Tariffs .............................................................. 48 4.1.1 Energy Tariffs ................................................................................................... 48 4.1.2 Service Charges ............................................................................................... 49 4.2 Water Tariffs ..................................................................... 50 4.3 Ethio-Telecom Tariffs ....................................................... 50 4.3.1 Residential Tariff .............................................................................................. 51 4.3.2 Enterprise Tariff ................................................................................................ 55 I Factor Costs 4.3.3 Fax Services .................................................................................................... 60 4.3.4 Telex Services .................................................................................................. 61 4.3.5 Telegram Services ........................................................................................... 61 4.3.6 Mobile (GSM) Services .................................................................................... 62 4.3.7 CDMA 2000 Services ....................................................................................... 63 Part 5: TAXES .................................................................................................................. 65 5.1 Customs Duty ................................................................... 65 5.2 Value Added Tax (VAT) .................................................... 66 5.3 Turnover Tax ....................................................................................................... 67 5.4 Excise Tax ........................................................................................................... 67 5.5 Business Income Tax ....................................................... 68 5.5.1 Income Tax on Individual Entities /Unincorporated Business ........................... 68 5.5.2 Corporate Income Tax ..................................................................................... 69 5.6 Rental Income Tax .............................................................................................. 69 5.7 Personal Income Tax ....................................................... 69 5.8 Export Tax ......................................................................... 69 5.9 Mining Income Tax ........................................................... 70 5.10 Other Income Taxes ....................................................... 70 5.11 Withholding Tax ............................................................. 70 5.12 Stamp Duty ..................................................................... 71 Part 6: TRANSPORT COSTS .......................................................................................... 72 6.1 Road transport tariffs ....................................................... 72 6.1.1 Dry cargo transport changes ........................................................................ 72 6.1.2 Passenger transport charges ........................................................................... 72 6.2 Sea transport tariffs ......................................................... 73 6.3 Clearance and Delivery Costs ......................................... 80 6.4 Air Transport Tariffs ......................................................... 81 Part 7: FUEL PRICES ...................................................................................................... 84 Part 8: HOTEL ROOM AND HOUSING RENTAL CHARGES .......................................... 85 8.1 Hotel room charges .......................................................... 85 8.2 Housing rental charges ................................................... 86 Part 9: COSTS OF ADVERTISING .................................................................................. 87 9.1 Advertising on Television ................................................ 87 9.1.1 ETV1 Commercials price ................................................................................. 87 9.1.2 ETV2 Commercials Price ................................................................................. 88 II Factor Costs 9.1.3 ETV3 Commercials Price ................................................................................. 89 9.2 Advertising on Radio ....................................................... 90 9.2.1 National Service ............................................................................................... 90 9.2.2 FM Addis 97.1 .................................................................................................. 91 9.3 Advertising on Newspapers ............................................ 92 Part 10: COST OF POSTAL SERVICES ....................................................................... 94 10.1 Domestic postal service charges ................................. 94 10.2 International postal service charges ............................ 96 10.3 Charges for other Postal services .............................. 100 Part 11: INSPECTION AND MARKING FEES OF ETHIOPIAN STANDARDS .............. 107 Part 12: CHARGES FOR INVESTMENT SERVICES .................................................... 108 Part 13: BANKING CHARGES AND LENDING RATES ................................................. 109 13.1 Bank Charges ............................................................... 109 13.2 Lending Rates ............................................................... 111 III Factor Costs Tables’ ..................................................................................... pages Table 1- 1 Periods of payment of urban land lease prices by region and activity ............... 2 Table 1- 2 Minimum urban land - lease prices in Addis Ababa ......................................... 3 Table 1- 3 Minimum urban land- lease prices in Tigray ..................................................... 4 Table 1- 4 for 10 and above housing units ........................................................................ 4 Table 1- 5 Duration of urban land- lease holdings for different types of investments ........ 4 Table 1- 6 Minimum lease prices of urban land for residential houses ............................... 5 Table 1- 7 Minimum lease prices of urban land for hotels ................................................. 5 Table 1- 8 Minimum lease prices of urban land for resorts ................................................. 5 Table 1- 9 Minimum lease prices of urban land for trade and similar services ................... 6 Table 1- 10 Minimum lease prices of urban land for industry ............................................. 6 Table 1- 11 Minimum