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If you need an offshore corporation, it can be opened for a few hundred $, but if you need to do the same for example in Germany, then you have to pay 25000 EURO to found a GmbH.

[icebraining]

You don't pay 25000€, you invest them in the company. And from what I can tell, there's a "mini-GmbH" model that avoids even that requirement.