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Gibraltar company as a non-resident that owns a Wyoming LLC. Stopping paying yourself a salary so no income tax in many countries. (Just be careful of establishing a personal tax residency in CFC countries that extend rules to individuals)

Why - what was it like 15 years ago? I only discovered Albania 9 years ago and it's going off as far as the fastest growing country in Europe. I just spent 3 months on the beach there in an apartment under $250 a month. Nice place to over-winter in Europe. Americans have had 12 month visa's for...

I wonder if you could setup a trust in a nice, tax friendly English-based country (Gibraltar, Carribean, Malta etc.) to buy the holding company and other assets. Then any German court would need the permission of the non-german country to enforce a claim. And 'piercing the corporate veil' may...

I've got something like that in France. The Visa is called the 'French Tech Visa' and so has some specific requirements as to type of business you can start to gain that visa. The visa is for 4 years, its renewable, and you can apply for citizenship after 5 years but you do have language tests...

Try Albania.

It interesting the differences in these laws between otherwise similar countries. In the English based systems, as a general rule: - The company that trades is the one that would be liable if something goes wrong - If the company had no assets then there's little for a person suing to chase -...

I guess you're worried about someone suing you and forcing you to sell your assets to pay for the court action. Like forcing you to sell the shares in your cash rich companies, or take the cash out. I'm not sure how it is in Germany but in the British system there are 'trusts' that can be setup...

Well, in some countries it does. Albania not. To get tax residency you have to spend 6 months of every year there. Which means, unless you're a US citz (or 1 or 2 other countries) you need a Visa to stay longer than 3 months.

Well you get Tax Residency when opening a company in Eswatini. And if you stay anywhere long enough (e.g. 6 months in Albania) then you can get tax residency. Which at 5% tax for tech businesses is a pretty good deal.

The Australian Tax Office released a new Tax Residence ruling recently. One of the harsher parts is that you need to setup a new permanent residence outside of Australia to leave the Aussie tax system. Being transient or nomadic when you leave doesn't cut it and could see you considered an...

Also, be careful of Australia's strong CFC laws that apply at the both the corporate and personal level. And then there's a defacto exit tax - CGT on deemed gains when you leave the country.

Just be careful as the DN Visa does NOT include tax residency. IMHO i twas a bad last minute change. Getting residency is somewhat harder - here's a blog I wrote last year from Albania. https://www.digitalnomadvisa.com/why-albania-will-struggle-with-its-digital-nomad-visa/

Cool. Good luck. Reach out if you need to vent or swap some ideas.

Actually, it wasn't cheaper to outsource to local companies in our case as the French state subsidize the admin wages a lot. Having left those subsidized programs though we've since moved our admin to Africa & Asia where costs are a lot lower.

Yes, we do fill in our own LLC tax forms but they're as simple as adding a few names, addresses, ID numbers and adding the 'Disregarded Entity " line. No (or few) financial figures are required to be submitted. Our agent handles the franchise fee, state lodgment, and registered addresses. Its...

Tempting

Yep. My LLCs do take 1 hour a year each to prepare and send a Disregarded Entity tax return and they do cost about $50 each annually.

Sadly, my experience in France (as an invited foreign entrepreneur) has been nothing like this. Business matters are super expensive for sure. Eg, bookkeeping starts at €350 a month (I don't pay €350 a year in other countries). Administration is over the top. Another example, there are 145...

Spain has some special anti-Gibraltar taxes that would be worth investigating first.

What about a simple US LLC based in a non-Sales Tax state?