Oman offers following advantages to the foreign investors to invest in oman.

• Political Stability.
  
• Liberal foreign ownership in companies permitted.
• Oman is rich in oil and gas.
  
• Capital and profits of a business entity is fully repatriable.
• No personal income-tax. All individuals can fully repatriate their savings.
• Committed to privatization, industrialization, economic diversification and development.
• Free trade and open market policy.
• Low income tax rate structure for companies and double taxation relief treaties available with many countries.
• Income tax holiday period of five years renewable for further period of five years, available for business entities engaged in priority areas of economic development.
• Geographically ideally located, proximity to Gulf, Asian and African markets.
• Well regulated stock exchange.
• Industries fulfilling certain conditions can get interest free/soft loans, exemption from custom duty on import of plant, equipment and raw materials and export credit insurance.
• Government leased land available at a concessional rate with good utilities.
• Modern infrastructure with good roads, airports, sea ports, and state of the art telecommunications and other services.
• English is used widely in day to day business commerce.
• Free trade zones in Salalah, Sohar, etc., offering attractive benefits to investors viz. full foreign ownership, low Omanisation, tax and custom exemption etc.

Oman is an oil and gas based economy with oil and gas sector accounting for about 75% of government revenues and contributing about 50% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Although the non-oil sectors contribution to GDP has been steadily increasing over the years, Oman\'s dependence on oil is likely to continue in the years to come. The government strategy for economic development is based on a series of five year development plans, and has the primary goal of a balanced government budget, encouragement of the private sector, Omanisation and diversifying the economic base of the country.

The monetary unit of Oman is Omani Rial (R.O.). The Rial is divided into 1000 equal units called Baizas. The Rial is tied to US Dollar, at the rate of Baizas 385.5 to US $ 1. There are no exchange controls in any form on inward / outward investment or on repatriation of capital and profits, either by nationals or expatriates.

The Capital Market Authority (CMA) regulates the securities market in Oman. The Capital Market Authority Law governs all the listed companies in Oman. Muscat Securities Market is the stock exchange of Oman. Membership in the exchange is compulsory for Omani licensed banks, public joint stock companies, and specialised loans institutions whose shares are listed in the securities market.