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by matsz 216 days ago
> Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?

Honestly, reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve the dire situation of startups here. It's so bad right now that a tax advisor straight up told me to move to a less business-hostile country.
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Yaina 215 days ago
Totally agree!! But you never see anything remotely close to proposals like that from the people claiming they want less bureaucracy.

When they say less bureaucracy / deregulation, they just talk about tax cuts, less consumer protections and at worst artificially boosting large companies that are not innovating.

What is desperately needed is making the system less cumbersome and convoluted

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scotty79 216 days ago
They should just copy Polish laws. They are far from perfect, and yet they provided Poland with almost 30 years of stable, few percent growth, regardless of global and European economic struggles. When you plot the chart of Polish GDP even such a significant event as entering EU doesn't even register in the shape of the growth.
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matsz 215 days ago
True, I was considering going back to Poland for business... if only Poland was more politically stable.
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scotty79 215 days ago
It recently had a bit of tax law upheaval, but things settled down since then. As for other issues it's politically stable, by which I mean consistently politically crappy.
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wkat4242 215 days ago
True but Poland did come from a really really deep hole under the thumb of the Soviets. They were very thoroughly screwed over. I guess this is why Poland is the most anti russian country in the EU now (and rightly so)

Just saying that growth is pretty easy starting off from zero.

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bootsmann 216 days ago
Usually people quit when they have to go to a notary the first time, impressive that you held out.
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egorfine 215 days ago
> reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve

I believe german citizens are actually against it. I may be wrong, but this is my personal observations. Source: I have tried to incorporate in Germany and I have incorporated in Poland.

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Muromec 215 days ago
Does the complexity even cost more than 500 eurobucks a year?
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