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Overview:
Zug, Switzerland, The town of Zug,
22km from Luzern on the north side of the Rigi, is the richest
place in Switzerland, which makes it very rich indeed. Tiny
Canton Zug has the lowest tax rates in the country – about
half the national average – which attracts flocks of
multinational corporations, which in turn pushes average per
capita net income up to an incredible Fr.70,000 a year.
Zug’s modern,
business-driven existence proceeds without pomp amidst the
glittering offices and malls of the new town, a world away from
the picturesque medieval churches and cobbled waterfront lanes
of the compact Old Town adjacent. Over the centuries, Zug’s
Old Town has regularly suffered from landslides which have
deposited buildings and people into the lake, most recently in
1887. Today, with the addition of modern retaining lake walls,
the danger has receded.
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