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by relix 2813 days ago
Check out https://www.leapin.eu/ for an easy way to set up an Estonian company and manage the accountancy around it. You can probably also contact them how it works with their German customers, and what your obligations and taxes would be exactly.

Pretty sure if you keep all your revenue inside the legal entity, you don't have to pay any taxes. Only once (if?) you distribute profits or pay yourself a salary it'll require paying taxes and might become a bit complicated due to you being based in Germany. From what I understand that's not yet your intention, which would mean it's pretty simple.

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> Pretty sure if you keep all your revenue inside the legal entity, you don't have to pay any taxes

As a person doesn't have to pay taxes until you pay out money to yourself, but the company itself still has to pay corporate taxes (on the profit it makes (Körperschafts- and Gewerbesteuer)).

For a GmbH/UG it is usually good to pay yourself a salary (if it makes money), because otherwise you essentially get taxed "twice" (corporate taxes and then income/dividend taxes if you distribute your profit to get it out of the company).

If you do a company, you should talk to a tax advisor, IMO best let him handle everything. I did a few companies in Germany, and I don't think it is worth to incorporate in Estonia (if you are not located there). It is reasonably easy to do in Germany.

I was talking about Estonian companies, they don't have corporate taxes.