Easy bureaucracy. AIUI, American citizens must eat broken glass once a year under the name "filling taxes". Many nations in Europe require businesses to eat b

Easy bureaucracy. AIUI, American citizens must eat broken glass once a year under the name "filling taxes". Many nations in Europe require businesses to eat broken glass just to do basic business functions - Spain is astonishingly non-functional. By contrast, most British citizens have very little red tape to contend with, and what form-filling does exist can be done easily online. Creating a company takes an hour and has a very light annual burden.