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Economy September 13, 2019 | 10:19 am

Free Zones create 3 times more jobs, but at a cost

Santo Domingo.- Free Zone companies create three times more employment, but each job costs five times more in terms of the income that is no longer received than each job created under the standard tax regime. The figures, which is the result of a World Bank study, is contained in the analysis “Tax incentives for companies in Latin America and the Caribbean,” conducted by Oxfam and the Econ... Read more

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