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EIS & SEIS [1] tax breaks for UK angel investors are a strong argument for the UK. Also R&D investment has tax credits too, so startup salary spend on new product dev is treated well by the UK tax office [2]. Don't know if PT & NL offer any similar breaks for startups & their investors.

[1] https://www.crowdcube.com/pg/seis-tax-relief-42 [2] http://forrestbrown.co.uk/rd-tax-credits-explained/

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NL offers R&D tax credit - http://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/wbso-rd-tax-credi...

Don't know about the other part.

To take advantage of R&D though your staff need to be contractors or UK employees, so more difficult if you already have a workforce elsewhere.

That's not true. http://inplus.co.uk/rd-tax-credits-foreign-companies/

If you have some horribly complex multinational structure then you'll have more scrutiny but it's not impossible.

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