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Netherlands VS. Estonia

If you need to deal with the digital products/services both are good.
If you are foreigner and have no Estonia e-residency there is not much difference in the process of opening the company, public records, UBO reporting etc - both are in the EU so the legislation is pretty much the same...
If you do IT projects - Netherlands have very good tax opportunities. Both of these countries are strict in terms of opening bank accounts for non-residents, but I would say Netherlands have more option for classical banks.
 
Hello,

I am looking for the easiest as far as requirements and cheapest way to set up a company in the EU. I have been given two options so far Netherlands vs. Estonia. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Firstly you should understand for what you will need a bank account.
Even with local ID it's not so easy to open bank account. You can register a company with a few hours and can't open account for it.
My practice says even local people opens account in KZ or BY ( during last year ) for operations. Local banks don't allow to work with many companies and countries, control all your operations like proctologist specialists. Be careful
 
Only for a very small group of big international operating countries the Netherlands is used in structures, it has to do with royalty structures.

I don't know what type of business you are running but if you let the profit be taxed in the Netherlands your are taxed at 15% for the first 250K and 25% over anything above that. And if you are a resident if the Netherlands you are also subject to 26.9% in dividend tax (which still remains even if you leave the country).

And you are also subject to a 46K minimum salary, and if you are the only one employed on paper that could also turn into 80% of the profits.

Malta, Cyprus are way more interesting in Europe.
 

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