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A comment on Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup?.

Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by phillc73 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:54AM (#11018536)
Ireland perhaps.

Forming a Limited company in Ireland is cheap and straightforward. That is compared to a GmbH in Austria or Germany where you need thousands of Euros in share capital just to form.[0]

Ireland uses the Euro, which might be an advantage over the UK with Pounds Sterling. No forex worries.

Ireland also has a low corporation tax rate of 12.5%

The only two trickier bits are setting up a registered address in Ireland (not P.O Box) and opening a bank account. Not insurmountable tasks, and various organisations can assist for a few hundred Euros.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A4n...

[1] http://www.companyservice.ie/ (€255 for the basic service. Not affiliated, don't even know this particular company, just found with a search)

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Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by bbrazil on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:15AM (#11018780)
The going rate for setting up an Irish company is around €250, and mine only took a few days.

Getting an Irish bank account is painful though, and that's with me being Irish in Ireland. I wouldn't try it from Portugal - though presumably you could use a local bank.

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Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by emailgregn on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:40AM (#11019071)
This is worth consideration too. Getting a bank account can be difficult.
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Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by hengheng on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:33AM (#11018644)
Germany does have the UG (haftungsbeschränkt) for this very reason.
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Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by mpswardle on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:40AM (#11018663)
Annoyingly though UG doesn't have the same respect as GMBH amongst German corporate, so if you do a lot of business in Germany it often worth capitalising it anyhow.
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Re:Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup? by ForeignEntrepre on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:42AM (#11072616)
I've only heard similar comment from accountants. I am not sure whether providers/customers really care about that. In fact I think accounts say that just because it was something new (so more work for them to learn).
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