EU company for imports

[Asense]

I have a Romanian SRL but since they tax on gross amount unless you have two employees paying a minimum salary plus social security/ tax etc. I am looking for another country to set up an EU company to import goods into the union. I won't actually be living in the country, so the Dutch BV is out since it appears you need to have substance with an office and employees.

I am considering Poland, but seems bureaucratic. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Martin Everson]

Estonian company you can try.

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[razorw]

Asense said:
I have a Romanian SRL but since they tax on gross amount unless you have two employees paying a minimum salary plus social security/ tax etc. I am looking for another country to set up an EU company to import goods into the union. I won't actually be living in the country, so the Dutch BV is out since it appears you need to have substance with an office and employees.

I am considering Poland, but seems bureaucratic. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
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I am looking at an SRL as well. As far as I know its 3% on gross without employees. 1% if you have just one employee- which can be yourself if you live in romania. Correct me if I am wrong

 

[Don]

Martin Everson said:
Estonian company you can try.
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I can recommend it as well.

Main benefits:

• Low bureaucracy + great solutions available for dealing with compliance and automating processes for customs brokerage, parcel transportation systems, etc.
• Excellent digital infrastructure saving your time and money
• Ability to defer paying corporate income tax, with great tax planning opportunities (maintaining close to 0% tax rate)

 

[Asense]

razorw said:
I am looking at an SRL as well. As far as I know its 3% on gross without employees. 1% if you have just one employee- which can be yourself if you live in romania. Correct me if I am wrong
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Yes, but you need to pay salary and social security and I still rather have accounting based on taxation, large volume large margins, 1% still no good. If you are a freelancer or programmer, it can work well.

 

[kilor]

Asense said:
1% still no good. If you are a freelancer or programmer, it can work well.
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I don't understand, why is that not good enough ?