Places to live for Dutch entrepreneur

[Cavaliere]

If you are eventually able to sell your company you can pay almost zero taxes by some trickery, so that's always the best way in NL. It's a nice country but mismanaged as of late. I expect tax rates to only go up there, esp. for sub-150K type businesses but who knows, Europe is full of surprises and still superior to any other continent, if Trump goes isolation mode I suspect it will actually be good for Europe.

Everything is gridlocked, it's actually quite similar to the US. If you can stomach it there is the option of Andorra which is in the same time-zone and quite close by and it offers major tax savings.

If you like the US you can also look into Puerto Rico for tax savings. If you like a lot of space for little, Cyprus is a very viable option with good connections to London and thus NL and has a pretty wide selection in nationalities living there. Malta is also nice if you don't mind living on an overcrowded rock.

 

[koohl]

Some real useful suggestions mate, have you lived at⁣ such places in your life ?

 

[JimBeam]

How do you mean "lot of space for little" ?‍
Please explain.

 

[Cavaliere]

Yes, I've lived in NL. For NL the company selling‍ strategy is from very recent advice from this year so it's still up-to-date.

Compared to Puerto Rico, Malta, Andorra and The Netherlands property is quite cheap in Cyprus⁣ from what I've seen. Especially since the Russians left.

 

[GPT]

Property prices quite cheap in Cyprus you say. What do you call cheap? Russians gone does‍ not directly mean that they also sold there Real Estate.

 

[Cavaliere]

An 3/4 bedroom villa with‌ pool and garden in a tax haven for 500 / 600K EUR.

 

[GPT]

Fair. In my experience these houses seem to‍ be on the market but when enquiring rarely for sale. "We sold the last one⁠ of those last week". etc.

 

[JimBeam]

Well, I went to Remax Cyprus and in €500k-€600k with pool and found only 12‌ listings.
Most of these not worth the money (dated) and couple of them new developments‍ (renders only).

Pretty much the same situation for €600-€700k.

 

[FreedomSearcher]

How does that company selling strategy for no tax work in NL?

 

[GPT]

Participation exemption is the first that comes to my mind.

 

[Mr Gus]

Within the Kingdom of the Netherlands you have Curacao which can offer very low rates‌ as well with a little bit of planning, Bonaire offers even lower rates. Those two‍ places can especially be interesting if you are Dutch and like the Caribbean way of⁠ life. Plus you have a lot of the Dutch amenities and services available. However just⁤ like with Malta you will go insane if you stay there year round.

But yes⁣ Cyprus might indeed be the best option, at least on paper it is, there is⁢ a tax treaty and no exit tax since it's EU. Don't really agree on the︀ "cheap property" you mentioned, it's actually quite the opposite, it's overpriced as f**k. Many of︁ the properties, besides in Limassol maybe don't even have proper internet infrastructure.