What’s the best offshore setup for German resident planning eventual relocation, but paying taxes meanwhile?

[aniglo22]

100% yes

But you could also consider figuring out where you’d like to live in the future and then set up your new company there already now.

That way, you might be able to get away with simply being employed by that company, meaning you'd only pay income tax in Germany, along with any standard employment-related costs. And when you eventually move, there’s no company to relocate, you’d simply deregister as an employee.

Given the low amounts involved, if you pull this off within 12 months of establishing the company, I’m pretty confident the German authorities won’t even notice what happened.

This can backfire tremendously , as many jurisdictions report entities without economic substance .

 

[EliasIT]

as they said above pick the cheapest place and low bureaucracy and low cost of life you can find and REALLY move there. You're not ready to think about tax havens with 30k.
So start early to cut your ties with germany with a first low tax jurisdiction easy to move in and cheap to mantain.
e.g. plenty of germans in romania and bulgaria that saved A LOT of money in taxes and grew their businesses to millions, while still living on the cheap, and then you'll be able to look at better places and complex structures.

that's what you should do.