Devens, as the site of a former military base, is a designated enterprise zone eligible for state financial support.
Britain's strict rules on development of new buildings will be relaxed; there will be extra perks in 21 new designated enterprise zones (see article).
"I don't know that there's a way to know other than talking to the businesses, and the businesses telling us that that was a factor in creating jobs," said Ken Striplin, the city manager of Santa Clarita, Calif., which gives tax breaks in a designated enterprise zone.
Interest on deposits held in Estonian banks, for example, is not taxed; businesses investing outside the capital city Tallinn are allowed to write off their investment twice; and some parts of the country have been designated enterprise zones much to the chagrin of purists, who believe the whole country should fit that description.
There's a kind of hypocrisy here — everyone knows the law doesn't correspond to the needs and desires of the consumer". Now, Virgin is allowed to operate some of its stores legally in Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux, because they have been designated "cultural" enterprises in designated tourist areas.
An entire quarter of the city has been designated an "enterprise zone", with tax relief and simplified planning to lure investment.When Curzon Street opened, the railway allowed Birmingham to sell its products to the world.
Without being officially designated an enterprise zone for international investment, Kunshan went ahead and made itself one.
An area of the city has been designated an enterprise zone, with tax relief and simplified planning to lure investment.
George Osborne has designated them an enterprise zone, meaning tax breaks and looser planning regulations for investors.
After the yard was designated a state enterprise zone in 1998, the sales tax was reduced from 8.25percentto4percentcent.
Twenty-one states, including New Jersey and Connecticut, have designated about 1,400 enterprise zones so far, leading to the creation or retention of 80,000 jobs and the investment of $3 billion in once depressed communities, said Joseph Monticciolo, regional administrator of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
