[gumby]

> the amount of taxation companies had to go through and the uncertainty behind a big and complex legal system which makes an average of 8 years for civil processing .

It's the big, complex legal system that gets me, and the mentality that keeps it in place. There's some sort of minimum required level (countries with too little don't thrive either) but when I think of Italy or India I think the complexity of simply getting anything done is discouraging.

OTOH I don't really care much about taxes and never have. Most of them are on profits, and if you're making profit, great! There are of course a plethora of bullshit excise taxes like business licenses, but in the main they have never added up to a lot in any business I've run. And of course I depend on things like fire brigade, a legal system (not that I've needed to sue anyone or be sued), clean air, roads, etc etc so paying taxes doesn't seem that bad in principle. Those things need to be paid anyway, and sometimes leaving them out of taxes is far worse (consider America's ridiculous health system)

[zepearl]

I was about to start writing the exact same thing (you wrote it better than how I would have hehe), but I then saw your post => thank you :)

[rosndo]

The problem is that some countries offer vastly better ROI on taxes than others.

Taxes aren’t a problem, shit ROI on taxes is.