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Haha, thanks for linking to my website! Happy to answer any questions. Skimmed this thread and I'm quite surprised how few people are aware of the permanent establishment problem. …

A lot of slightly misleading information here. - What you're talking about is working as a freelancer (Freiberufler), which is a subset of a sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmen); th…

Yup. Most of the time, you simply don't need a GmbH. I wonder why German people often think they need to found one - maybe because people in the US have a low threshold of founding…

Sure, there are lots of middlemen who are more than happy to take your money to navigate this broken process, and tax advisors are probably #1 on the list :) That being said, even …

Thanks! Super interesting. Yeah, they were alright - definitely a bit of a "we love to take a lot of your money" vibe, but they did have some actual knowledge. Some of the other ta…

Awesome. I'd be really curious which lawyer you were referring to - if you like, feel free to reach out privately (e.g. Telegram channel link on the website) :)

Ha, that's my website - thanks for posting it (and for linking to it - allaboutberlin is awesome!). Indeed, the valuation for the purpose of exit tax is 13.75 * (avg. of yearly pro…

Roads are salted, everything else is not.

Berlin is a great place to observe policies with good intentions, yet negative second-order effects. Distributing free potatoes will likely cause waste somewhere else, as e.g. peop…

That won't work, for multiple reasons: - I assume you're referring to founding a UG with 1€ in Germany. If you truly found it with 1€, it'll technically be bankrupt shortly after f…

In most developed countries, you should incorporate at your place of residence. That's because incorporating in a foreign country will introduce tax issues regarding the so-called …

Interesting to see this on HN. I was part of the research group which published this back in 2015 [1], I think we were the second group worldwide to publish this. So, first off, th…