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“Madeira is internationally recognised as a well-regulated environment for investors who want to set up sound, respectable operations within the EU,” Mr Francisco Costa, founder and chief architect of Madeira’s International Business Centre (IBC)
Source: © The Financial Times 2006

Besides classy hotels, natural beauty, sub-tropical weather all-year round, political and economical stability and European Union (EU) membership, Madeira has an International Business Centre (IBC) comprising of a Industrial Free Trade Zone, a ship register and array of services and consulting companies, all under fiduciary management.

Madeira's IBC is not only formally approved by the EU as a legitimate programme of economic development but is fully integrated into the Portuguese and the E.U.’s legal system. This makes Madeira an efficient investment location as well as a well-regulated business centre. Under EC Treaty state aid rules, the European Commission approved a scheme providing tax reductions worth €300 million until 2020 to companies setting up in the Free Trade Zone of Madeira (ZFM) between 2007 and 2013.

Through a Madeira-registered company, you can work freely with all European countries except Portugal.
Madeira's VAT rate, at 14%, is the lowest in the EU.