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BH,
You should have been born in Saudi Arabia if you want to be a businessman.There are no federal taxes, state taxes & no local govt taxes or council building rates. And the same goes for VAT, GST,superannuation,pension or compensation payments. No rent as you probably own the place. Stationry is dirt cheap- US monopoly rights over all the worlds inventions dont apply.You put an Indian
in as manager & pay him a few bob (1000 rials a month if he behaves himself) . Trade unions are a punishable offence. If your employee decides to leave, you put out a wanted notice in the news paper, with villainous looking mugshot & the police drag him back after a good roughing up and a spell in the Riyadh Hilton(wink wink). Ah, the good old days when they really knew how to give a welfare bum a good time!
NO maternity leave as women are mostly confined to the harem- sorry,women's quarters- or hidden in the broom cupboard when the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Elimination of Vice come calling.
All that red tape we have. I have difficulty putting my few farthings through the govt mangle at tax time.