| Alabama, especially the northern part near Huntsville | | | | construction 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 new | | | | agricultural and forestry products from an extensive |
| contract by Thyssen-Krupp to build steel mill in | | | | interior area of the United States. The possibilities for |
| Alabama, and invest over $3.7 billion, this tendency | | | | small engineering and design corporations are endless, |
| toward industry seems to be back. This plant is | | | | if 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 Space | | | | cruise 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 development | | | | cruises all over the Caribbean. Despite the fact that |
| and also of the civilian space program since the late | | | | Mobile has suffered extensive hurricane damage from |
| 1940s and early 1950s. To this day, the Huntsville | | | | various storms, its mild climate, and lower cost of |
| area has many small engineering firms that deal with | | | | living have made the area, and other places in |
| specific problems in the missile program, the missile | | | | Alabama further inland, popular destinations for |
| defense program and the civilian Space Shuttle. Under | | | | couples going into retirement. Condominium |
| the circumstances that the space program is | | | | construction has continued in the Mobile area. |
| expanded, or a space based missile defense program | | | | Birmingham, Alabama is the largest city in the state, |
| put into action, the employment and corporation | | | | with a metropolitan area population of over 1 million. |
| creation possibilities in this area would move forward | | | | It 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, a | | | | the city. The climate is still fairly mild, with only |
| full-scale model of the Saturn V rocket, the rocket | | | | occasional major snow falls in the winter. Birmingham |
| that got the US Astronauts to the moon can be | | | | has become a banking center for the southeast |
| viewed. Several auto companies, mostly Japanese or | | | | United States as well as a corporate center for |
| other foreign companies have located their auto | | | | insurance, 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, and | | | | it does have a business privilege tax that applies to |
| the port of Mobile is quite busy, as well as being | | | | both Alabama corporations, and other corporations |
| connected to inland waterways through the | | | | doing business in Alabama. The corporate income tax |
| Tennessee-Tombigbee water project. There is | | | | is 6.5% per year, or alternatively 0.25% of gross |
| extensive building of military ships in the area, with | | | | sales in Alabama. Alabama corporation filing fees are |
| Mobile also being a possible location of the | | | | $40, and other fees are quite reasonable. |