Forming a company in Cyprus does not quietly end your relationship with the Ukrainian tax system. Plenty of founders assume otherwise. They incorporate, open banking, move the invoicing across, and treat the old jurisdiction as closed business. It isn’t. Since 1 January 2022, Ukraine has operated a controlled foreign company regime, and it attaches to […]

Most German business owners who reach this question have already done the mental arithmetic. They know roughly what a German GmbH costs in corporate tax, they know what happens to dividends when they reach the personal level, and they have started wondering whether there is a more efficient way to hold those profits between the […]

 Three EU jurisdictions. Three very different corporate tax systems. And a German business owner trying to figure out which one actually makes sense for their situation. This is a question that gets asked a lot, usually after someone has spent an afternoon reading articles that mix 2023 figures with 2026 claims and never quite say […]