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• France : Twice less businesses, three times less employment created than in Germany
  26 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

  Is this the best kept statistical secret in France? These figures are not found on Eurostat where newly created businesses and jobs appear similar for France and Germany.
  On the contrary, French official statements celebrate the success of start-ups creation without taking into consideration that almost all companies being created are without employee, so that we do not know whether these companies are empty shells.
  To avoid this, several international statistics agencies, including (...)

• Taxation and Start-ups Financing
  27 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

  The role of taxation in business creation is often considered minor, history, temperament, entrepreneurial, bureaucratic obstacles, labor law, etc. being judged more important. The story of President Reagan, on the contrary, shows that taxation is a key factor, as it was able to stop the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, considered internationally as among the most enterprising. In 1986, the President erases all the loopholes (tax incentives), including those that encouraged to invest (...)