tax-free area , auch: tax-free zone

Matthias Corvinus named the city a tax-free area, and this privilege lasted until the 17th century.

One is a large tax-free area, selling not only predictable souvenirs like cheeses, herrings and tulip bulbs, but also porcelain, diamonds and even medical instruments.

As part of the development of Dubai, the emirate established "free zones" - tax-free areas with financial incentives to lure businesses into clustered luxury office parks.

At the Pengkalan Kubor Town has a tax-free area selling goods, mainly clothes, footwear and kitchenware at very reasonable prices which attracts many tourists.

This was the year, virtually everyone here agreed, that something would have to be done about one of New York's main economic development programs, the Empire Zones, those tax-free areas devised to help create jobs.

B1 No Fix for Tax-Free Zones New York legislators had agreed that this was the year to improve the flawed Empire Zone program, which creates tax-free areas to help businesses create jobs.

For their part, the controls set up by tax free shop managers are only the same as those carried out by warehouse managers and only guarantee that the goods have not left the store or the tax-free area without having been registered.

But we have realised that the situation in this respect is not at all satisfactory. Take Poland for example, where a whole series of tax-free areas have been set up close to or on the border with Germany, the neue Bundesländer.

These tax-free areas developed further economic significance during colonial times, when entire cities - including Hong Kong, Singapore and Gibraltar - were designated as "free ports" from which the loot of colonialism could be safely shipped back to England, Europe or America with low import tariffs.