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...Singaporean government owns 57% of SIA's stock (some 20% is held by money managers). And while by no accounts does it dictate the airline's strategy, the government aids SIA in many ways. Tax breaks on the carrier's aircraft help SIA maintain one of the youngest fleets of any major airline. The government helpfully paid the multibillion-dollar construction cost of Singapore's impressive Changi Airport, the airline's hub since 1981 and one of the best airports in the world...
...Iraq war loomed, the board was worried that a "culture of caution" had taken root among consumers and businesses alike. Today world trade is up; oil prices didn't spike, as was feared; mergers and acquisitions are back in fashion; and U.S. consumers, boosted by President Bush's tax cut, are buying the whole world out of the doldrums. Even Japan's economy, mired in recession for much of the past decade, is growing at a healthy pace again. "There's a remarkable degree of consensus" among forecasters for U.S. growth between 3.5% and 4% this year, Tyson said...
...executives are no doubt impressed by the same attractions that lure tourists in summer and winter alike: the town's spectacular lakeside setting with the Alps towering in the distance. But there are also good business reasons to set up shop in Zug. It offers some of the lowest tax rates available in any stable democracy. And its laws protecting residents' financial privacy are among the strictest on the planet...
...maximum tax on corporate profits in Zug is 17.8%, as compared with 25% elsewhere in Switzerland, 18% in Liechtenstein and 39% in the U.S. "We offer not only fiscal conditions that are attractive to these companies but also an efficient, business-friendly infrastructure," says Franziska Holzgang, head of Zug's Economic Promotion Board. A company can be launched in Zug with little capital, registration fees are low, and the whole process can be completed within five days. The big banks and international airport of Zurich are only 14 miles to the north. And the work force in Zug is well...
...sectors. Many are subsidiaries of firms headquartered elsewhere, including such big U.S. names as Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kellogg and PerkinElmer. These firms, and others from around the world, have no trouble getting executives to transfer to Zug, or to visit. The town offers both "tax advantages and a great quality of life," says Andreas Emmenegger, CFO of Fantastic, a software company with offices in Framingham, Mass., New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta and Dallas...