[inglor_cz]

IDK if "cz" means Czechia in the name of OP, but yes, once you employ somebody and are a VAT payer, your paperwork goes way up. You can outsource it to your accountant, though.

AFAIK employment is bureaucratically easier in the US and none of the US states even has VAT.

But other barriers have fallen recently. If you wanted to start a Ltd company here in Czechia around 2005, all the necessary paperwork took about 100 days to complete. This has been optimized, now it takes just several days and the fees have been cut in half.

[Taniwha]

I ran a business in California - there sales tax is incredibly more difficult to manage than the VAT (GST) here in New Zealand. Imagine having to charge someone a different sales tax rate depending on which county they live in .....

[donaltroddyn]

Only five US States don't have Sales Tax, and most counties and cities have their own, too.