Business- Down South in Alabama

Alabama, especially the northern part near Huntsvilleconstruction of the next US Naval Aircraft Carrier.
was in the process of changing into an industrial area,Mobile is also a large port for the shipping out of
particularly around steel mills. Now with the newagricultural and forestry products from an extensive
contract by Thyssen-Krupp to build steel mill ininterior area of the United States. The possibilities for
Alabama, and invest over $3.7 billion, this tendencysmall engineering and design corporations are endless,
toward industry seems to be back. This plant isif you are thinking of starting a corporation in
planned to be built north of the city of Mobile.Alabama. Mobile is also the center of a rather large
Huntsville is the home of NASA?s Marshall Spacecruise ship operation, through such companies as
Flight Center, and a missile command facility nearby.Carnival Cruise Lines, and is the starting point for
Huntsville has been a center of missile developmentcruises all over the Caribbean. Despite the fact that
and also of the civilian space program since the lateMobile has suffered extensive hurricane damage from
1940s and early 1950s. To this day, the Huntsvillevarious storms, its mild climate, and lower cost of
area has many small engineering firms that deal withliving have made the area, and other places in
specific problems in the missile program, the missileAlabama further inland, popular destinations for
defense program and the civilian Space Shuttle. Undercouples going into retirement. Condominium
the circumstances that the space program isconstruction has continued in the Mobile area.
expanded, or a space based missile defense programBirmingham, Alabama is the largest city in the state,
put into action, the employment and corporationwith a metropolitan area population of over 1 million.
creation possibilities in this area would move forwardIt has a history of being a center of the coal and
much more rapidly, for your Alabama Incorporation.steel trades and there is still some steel production in
At Huntsville?s US Space and Rocket Center, athe city. The climate is still fairly mild, with only
full-scale model of the Saturn V rocket, the rocketoccasional major snow falls in the winter. Birmingham
that got the US Astronauts to the moon can behas become a banking center for the southeast
viewed. Several auto companies, mostly Japanese orUnited States as well as a corporate center for
other foreign companies have located their autoinsurance, and for new biotechnology industries.
manufacturing plants in Alabama since 1993.Alabama does not have a business inventory tax, but
Alabama has a coastline along the Gulf of Mexico, andit does have a business privilege tax that applies to
the port of Mobile is quite busy, as well as beingboth Alabama corporations, and other corporations
connected to inland waterways through thedoing business in Alabama. The corporate income tax
Tennessee-Tombigbee water project. There isis 6.5% per year, or alternatively 0.25% of gross
extensive building of military ships in the area, withsales in Alabama. Alabama corporation filing fees are
Mobile also being a possible location of the$40, and other fees are quite reasonable.