Bratislava - the gate to the Flat Tax country Slovakia
Together with the city and the Slovak economy the airport Bratislava experiences a high-altitude flight. During dispatched flight passengers there are growth rates of up to 50%. In the coming years an international race to catch up expects the airport of the Slovak capital with a new strategic partner. A goal is the establishment of the Flugdestination Bratislava in the strong competition surrounding field of the airports Vienna, Budapest and Prague. No cutthroat competition is announced, but that booming market is on the region divides to become. Like that will actually run off, over it separate the expert opinions. Under that monthly approximately 100,000 flight passengers of Bratislava businessmen have an important portion. And they do not only have a reason for the journey after Bratislava. A dynamically growing national economy, which creates favorable conditions for investments, presents itself them.
One of the drives behind expansion for the country was the successful race to catch up with the EU enlargement. When the Slovakia joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, the endured Mühsal belonged to the past. A further mainspring for the restaurant engine Slovakia was the reform politics of the Slovak government in the last years. The Slovakia made headlines international with the introduction of the Flat Tax so called. With the uniform body and income tax with a tax rate of 19%, with simultaneous abolishment of exceptions and special arrangements with the taxation, the country became today on tomorrow front runners for international large investments. Already the region Bratislava supplies approximately 25% of the country-wide produced gross domestic product. In addition the good level of education comes. 17% of the population of the region Bratislava can show a university University of, 30% Abitur.
Economic situation Bratislava
The city and region Bratislava (www.bratislava.sk) exhibit several economical centers of dense development, where locations for new enterprises with appropriate infrastructure are in developing. For the retail trade place is due to the historical development of the city in the city center only for few smaller shopping streets. In the last years a number of larger and attractive shopping centres (www.poluscitycenter.sk, www.avion.sk, www.aupark.sk) developed outside of the city center and at the outskirts of a town.
At important junctions of the city there are already high-quality office plants. Much is built in the center. Locations at the outskirts of a town with good traffic route to the center boom also. The net rents are on the average with 13,5 EUR per square meter. The emptying and rate with new office buildings is below 10%. In the city center bank and service buildings concentrate. In the industrie and development areas Bratislavas (the city is the most important industrial site of the Slovakia) are settled enterprises from almost all important sections. The automobile industry with the Volkswagen work is prominent in the quarter Devinska new facts Ves. Along the Verkehrsträger toward the north and the east of the city centre development areas are planned. The industrial estate for innovative technology CEPIT www.cepit.sk develops in the quarter Vajnory. The new apartment and nightclub district Riverpark (www.jtfg.com) are built at the Danube. The cut of the spade for Eurovea (www.eurovea.sk), the new administration and cultural center of the Slovak capital in the proximity of the port, takes place in the 1st half-year 2006. The announced building of a motorway in the east of the city will be a new investment opportunity. This makes a large sheet in the east around the city. From it a connection with the Austrian border results over the mountain massif of the Kleinkarpaten. At the same time thereby the entrance to the existing industrial zone of the automobile industry is improved north the city.
Hint for business travelers
In several languages arranged official homepage of the Slovak capital www.bratislava.sk offers a good information basis for the city visitor. From this is to among other things also see the fact that it in Bratislava good hotels with three or four stars gives. To the best houses in the city centre the hotel Radisson (www.radissonsas.com) belong to Carl clay/tone, the hotel Marrols (www.hotelmarrols.sk) and/or the hotel Crowne Plaza (www.cpbratislava.com) or the hotel Danube (www.hoteldanube.com), many is operated by international hotel chains. The hotel Kempinski in the new city quarter Riverpark will be the first 5-Sterne-Hotel in Bratislava. It is built straight.
Invest more easily made
Foreign enterprises can create a subsidiary or a branch/a representative office without own orders secured at the beginning either as switching for the parent company (SLC Europe s.r.o. Bratislava). The legal form most frequently selected of foreign investors in the Slovakia is the limited company (s.r.o.). Low capital stock and the limitation of liability make in this country attractive s.r.o. The managing directors of GmbHs do not need residence and a work permit in the Slovakia. For the establishment of an enterprise a Gewerbeberechtigung is necessary in the Slovakia. The industrial law differentiates between compulsorily notifiable and licensed trades. The request in addition is to be placed with the locally responsible office for trade.
For limited companies the registration is compellingly prescribed the Register of Companies. For the admission in the Register of Companies the law plans one period of 5 working-days, if the requests of the enterprise are completely brought in. Around promotion means for foreign enterprise founders and investors the Slovak one knows agency for foreign investments SARIO (www.sario.sk) with and with the agency for the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises NADSME (www.nadsme.sk) to be inquired. A further important partner for enterprises, also from the foreign country, is the regional chamber Bratislava Slovak industrie and of the Chamber of Commerce SOPK (www.bl.sopk.sk). The chamber membership is based in the Slovakia on voluntary basis.
A weak point of the location Bratislava, which refers to the entire country, are the still predominating lack with the legal security. The legal proceedings last to for a long time. With bankruptcy and balance procedures this can lead to losses. In order to create remedy, a judicial reform is into force for some years, which begins to already reach into some ranges.
Information and some numbers about the region Bratislava
- Surface: 2,053 qkm
- Population: 599,015
- Capital Bratislava: 423,672 inhabitants
- Municipalities altogether: 72
- Office/correspondence language: Slovak one/German, English, Czech
- Currency: EURO
- Economic growth: 10.2% (2008)
- Inflation rate: 3.1%
- Unemployment: 2.8%
- Institutions for education in Bratislava
- Comenius university
- Slovak technical university
- Economic university
- University for Musi arts
- University for screen end of arts
- Catholic university of canonical right
- Police academy
- 16 theatres
- 28 museums
- 25 galleries
- 44 cinemas
- 116 libraries
- Airport: M.R. Š tefánika Bratislava
- Port: Danube port Bratislava
- Motorways after: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw
Agency of the region Bratislava in the Free State of Bavaria
Contact: gov.bratislava @ online.de
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