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Filings will cost you at least 100/year for nothing. And you have to keep 25% of your profits you have 25k€.

All unnecessarily complex.

If you never make any profit, you don't need to set aside 25 % of your profits.

>If you never make any profit

Sure but then that's not really anyone's goal starting a company in Germany. So ultimately you will have to deal with this issues if you don't fancy being homeless.

Profit =|= revenue. You pay taxes on profit, if you invest all you operational profits in, e.g., hyper growth you won't pay any taxes at all.

Let's not touch VAT so.

Payroll is a deductible cost and not taxed as profit

Sometimes it is funny how clueless people can be about the simplist things around corporations.

True. Sorry, my mistake.

If payroll for you is too high you will learn the words 'verdeckte Gewinnausschuettung' the hard way.

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