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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by oulipo on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:46AM (#44834581)
The business owners are doing something very wrong. They are failing to recognize that their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare, etc

So when you get money out of this, you pay your fair share of taxes, like everyone.

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by kmlx on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:13AM (#44834718)
> their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare

Germany has Europe’s lowest share of entrepreneurs to workforce. So i guess the infrastructure, education and healthcare are not really factors.

> So when you get money out of this, you pay your fair share of taxes, like everyone.

this is already happening. people are paying their taxes. but Germany wants more than it’s fair.

cherry on top: Germany has been in recession for… 3 years now?

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by tcfhgj on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:56AM (#44835255)
> cherry on top: Germany has been in recession for… 3 years now?

no?

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by u_sama on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:39AM (#44836301)
Idk what world you live in, but Germany has clearly been in recession, unemplyment rose over the last few years and the rest of the Eurozone is in a similar condition
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by tcfhgj on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:13AM (#44837200)
stagnation != recession
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by u_sama on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:44AM (#44862779)
Contraction in 2023, 2024 and stagnation in this year. It is still has the effects of a recession even if the official data doesnt reflect it.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by logicchains on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:00AM (#44834647)
>They are failing to recognize that their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare, etc

Empirically that seems to be false, given the number of successful businesses created in Europe in the past couple decades is way way less than in the US or China, even though Europe has better infrastructure, education and public healthcare.

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by Strix97 on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:14AM (#44834728)
> Empirically that seems to be false

Could you tell me on what data you are basing this argument on? I see this sentiment pop up in every related conversation but haven't seen the source of these claims. Could you help me out?

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by logicchains on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:28AM (#44835414)
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by Strix97 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:29AM (#44846306)
Thank you