[fierarul]

>Re: 'just pay your accountant or lawyer', not to pounce on you but this is incredibly naive

It was more of a joke, I was mostly trying to underline that I imagine this to be only for big companies.

Do these guys have a website ?

Anyhow, just the cost of the incorporation isn't the major criteria. I'm looking more at the total cost for such a thing: the total administrative costs over a year plus the total taxes must be well bellow what one would pay locally otherwise it's not worth the trouble.

As most expenses (accountant, rent) are rather fixed costs, this means that the whole thing becomes feasible only for companies that exceed a given income/profit.

[roel_v]

A couple of famous ones are www.hjc.nl (although when I just googled them it seems that they are under bankruptcy since a few months, I'm not sure what's going on there) and www.quaedvlieg-juristen.nl . Generally companies like this say it becomes interesting at profits of 50k and up. Of course it depends, I mean if a founder needs to pay himself a salary that's going to be taxed locally (at least in part). It's very casuistic, but I don't agree that it only pays for huge companies; as soon as a company has a few employees and does business globally (quite easy for software), it becomes worthwhile to at least look into it.