Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

Year Introduced: 2007 | National-level

The Innovation Box regime provides a preferential corporate tax rate of 9% - reduced from the regular rate of 15%-25% - in order to incentivize companies to engage in innovative activities and invest…

Year Introduced: 2017 | National-level

Global Impact Visa (GIV) is a three-year open work visa that enables participants in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship to work and live in New Zealand. The visa provides up to 400 individual pioneering…

Year Introduced: 2018 | National-level

Export Bahrain works alongside local and international partners to offer Bahraini companies greater international opportunities, exposure, knowledge and solutions to compete on a global level. The…

Year Introduced: 1996 | National-level

The CSOP is a tax qualified discretionary share option plan which allows companies to grant options to their employees or directors. These options enable the holders to acquire shares at a certain…

Year Introduced: 1997 | National-level

Companies starting up or creating jobs in disadvantaged neighborhoods of 10,000 or more inhabitants (ZFU-TE areas) benefit from temporary exemptions from taxes on profit. The exemption is total (100…

Year Introduced: 1980 | National-level

The SR&ED tax incentives program has two main components:  The income tax deduction which allows immediate expensing of all allowable expenditures.   The investment tax…

Year Introduced: 2010 | Sub-national

The Converge Challenge is primarily a business creation competition and entrepreneurship development programme for staff, students and recent graduates of all Scottish universities and research…

Year Introduced: 2011 | City-level

London & Partners supports London-based businesses that have between six and 250 employees and have a turnover of more than £500k (approx $620k) but less than £40 million (approx $49.7 million)…

Year Introduced: 2000 | National-level

The EMI scheme is a government-backed tax advantageous share options scheme which allows companies to reward employees with equity in a highly tax efficient way. Eligible companies are able to grant…

Year Introduced: 2013 | National-level

INVEST consists of an acquisition grant and an exit grant. With the acquisition grant, business angels receive 25 percent of their investment tax-free if they invest at least 10,000 euros in venture…