{"id":15858,"date":"2016-01-12T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/?p=15858"},"modified":"2016-01-12T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:11:40","slug":"how-do-the-us-corporate-expatriates-choose-their-european-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/how-do-the-us-corporate-expatriates-choose-their-european-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"How do the US Corporate Expatriates choose their European HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bermuda always used to be one of the top destinations for US companies shifting their headquarters abroad for tax purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Bermuda is a <em>British<\/em> Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, United States, about 1,030 kilometres (640 miles) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,239 kilometres (770 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Canada, and 1,538 kilometres (956 mi) north of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Emerald Island&#8217;s Appeal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Dublin has become the new destination of choice for US corporate expatriates.<br \/>\nThe corporate tax rate is just 12.5 percent. Not to mention you have a highly skilled English-speaking workforce. If you want to compare to France &#8211; their corporate tax rate is whopping 33.3 percent while the UK &#8216;s stands at 21 percent. If you think all the US companies went to Ireland to drink great Guinness, play golf and celebrate the Irish heritage &#8211; think again.<\/p>\n<p>The tax rate is the reason why many tech companies, pharmaceutical gorillas and management consultancies have moved their headquarters from the US to Ireland (per Bloomberg report).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: The World Capitals For US Corporate Expatriates | Statista\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/3618\/the-world-capitals-for-us-corporate-expatriates\/\"><img style=\"width: 100%; height: auto !important; max-width: 960px; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net\/images\/infografik\/normal\/chartoftheday_3618_the_world_capitals_for_us_corporate_expatriates_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: The World Capitals For US Corporate Expatriates | Statista\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bermuda always used to be one of the top destinations for US companies shifting their headquarters abroad for tax purposes. Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, United States, about 1,030 kilometres (640 miles) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,239 kilometres (770 mi) south of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16236,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions\/16236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}