You should not move your company to Amsterdam because every employee can smoke pot legally :)
Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
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Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#12The real question is of course "Is it better than Berlin?". I personally wouldn't bother with any European city with housing market problem, excluding London.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#13Any links to finding more information on moving from Asia?
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#14If you run a successful business in holland, and pay yourself a salary out of it, your tax rate is over %70! And on top of that, you have %20 VAT. And this isn't even going into the manifold fees and other types of taxes you are subjected to. ------------------------------- This comment is not spam. It had a nice positive score until the socialists arrived. Of course, socialists being unable to deal with reality (or…
You should learn what a marginal tax rate is.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#15Also factor in the time you're going to be spending learning Dutch. You'll probably get by with English alone since everyone will speak it with you, but it's certainly less than optimal.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#16If you run a successful business in holland, and pay yourself a salary out of it, your tax rate is over %70! And on top of that, you have %20 VAT. And this isn't even going into the manifold fees and other types of taxes you are subjected to. ------------------------------- This comment is not spam. It had a nice positive score until the socialists arrived. Of course, socialists being unable to deal with reality (or…
You should learn what a marginal tax rate is.
You should learn to think.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#17Very lively, internationally oriented, creative environment.
Very strong hacker community with excellent people who are unfortunately (still) undervalued and misunderstood by their government.
The article is probably wrong on one point:
I don't believe you ever get used to the weather.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#18Also factor in the time you're going to be spending learning Dutch. You'll probably get by with English alone since everyone will speak it with you, but it's certainly less than optimal.
Apart from London Amsterdam is probably the city where you can get by most easily speaking only English.
It will be hard to fully integrate into Dutch social life without learning proper Dutch of course, but professionally it will not be much of a problem and the expat community is so large that it is fairly easy to build a decent social life within it.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#19You should not move your company to Amsterdam because every employee can smoke pot legally :)
Better add Colorado and Washington state to that list.
And maybe we should move all of our companies to Saudia Arabia since employees can drink legally everywhere else.
Re: Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam
#20The real question of course is 'move from where?'. Should you move your company from Silicon Valley to Amsterdam? Probably not. Should you move it from somewhere else in Europe? Maybe.