[helge5]

If you want to keep it simple it very likely makes sense to found the company where you reside. If you don't mind complexity, lookup `Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich` :->

If you want to move to Europe (which I think was part of the idea of the article), it may indeed make sense to consider where to move. Germany (and one of its startup hubs, like Berlin or Hamburg) is probably not the worst place to be for various reasons, but I've also heard good things about e.g. Estonia.

I don't have backup readily available but I think your statement about the taxes is just plain wrong. Generally I think income is taxed where it is produced and Europe has (no)double-taxation treaties with pretty much any country. Personally I'd still avoid the extra complexity for a startup :-)

[tornadoboy55]

Please don't put a smile after that. Corporate tax evasion is a blight on society and people facilitating it are scum. Pay your dues, just like the people of a society have to.

[WildUtah]

It's not a company's responsibility to pay more than it owes. It's the people's responsibility to elect a government that will write rules without such gross and long standing loopholes. Or at least to elect a government that will close them after a decade or two of abuse instead of keeping them permanently.

[pantalaimon]

According to that logic, if I found a software exploit that allows me to order anything for free on Amazon, I should be allowed to keep all the stuff without any consequences, because it's the resistibility of Amazon to prevent such loopholes from being used?

[WildUtah]

Imagine how nasty Amazon would be and how much money they would lose if they just blamed their users for bugs of that magnitude. That's how Europe's tax authorities are running their business.

And the USA isn't all that much better.

[therealmarv]

Well in your logic all big companies are scum. There are whole industries which making a lot of bucks for tax evasion (I mean the 100% legal one) and a lot of people are working there. So they are all scum? Just saying... if you are doing everything 100% legal according to the laws of your country why not optimize it? It's unfair that small and medium fish cannot do the same as big fish ;)