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Re:How I would start my next startup in Germany without a Gm... by hef19898 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:10PM (#31622059)
Well, no initial balance sheet required. Taxes are filed, of course. VAT had to be decleared, in theory, every month. You get reminders, so it can also be done for multiple months. Now, due to lack of revenue, I have to file a zero VAT declaration quarterly. And your deadlines are longer than if you eork with a registered tax advisor. That's why I said so far, I'll have to do all that this year, the 2021 balance sheet is due in 2023, no need to publish the latest in the Bundesanzeiger anyway. After all, that's par of the course of doing proper business, and cost of doing business.
Re:How I would start my next startup in Germany without a Gm... by codethief on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:35PM (#31622397)
> Well, no initial balance sheet required

The law very clearly disagrees with you:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hgb/__242.html

> And your deadlines are longer than if you eork with a registered tax advisor.

True. If you're paying a tax advisor, you don't really care about the deadlines and all the paperwork, anyway, though. You just pay people to do all that for you.

Re:How I would start my next startup in Germany without a Gm... by hef19898 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:42PM (#31622487)
I had two companies, GmbH (no merged and disolved) and a dormant UG. Never filed an initial balance sheet for either.
Re:How I would start my next startup in Germany without a Gm... by codethief on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:00PM (#31623952)
That's interesting. Tax authorities (in NRW) very explicitly asked me for one a few months after I had incorporated.
Re:How I would start my next startup in Germany without a Gm... by hef19898 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:37PM (#31625335)
I'm in Bavaria, and to the best of my recolection I never filed one. But then it was a cash-only incorporation, and honestly I don't remember all the files and formulars I filled and signed. Maybe there are exceptions to this under certain circumstances...