Solely from the taxation perspective, my home country now looks surprisingly friendly for small IT businesses.
We have a so called Simplified Taxation System for small businesses (not just IT.) Basically, as a company we can choose to pay either 6% of annual revenue, or the bigger of 15% of profit and 1% of revenue. That's it, no VAT or anything.
As far as wage taxes go, there is a 20% Unified Social Tax charged on the wage amount before income tax. Moreover, there is an annual cap on that tax, which a senior developer in a big city is likely to hit as early as mid-year. Otherwise, small IT businesses can qualify to lower that tax to 14%. All that's left after that is the income tax - 13% flat.
Which country you would ask? Russia. That's why I wrote "Solely from the taxation perspective" in the opening statement...
We have a so called Simplified Taxation System for small businesses (not just IT.) Basically, as a company we can choose to pay either 6% of annual revenue, or the bigger of 15% of profit and 1% of revenue. That's it, no VAT or anything.
As far as wage taxes go, there is a 20% Unified Social Tax charged on the wage amount before income tax. Moreover, there is an annual cap on that tax, which a senior developer in a big city is likely to hit as early as mid-year. Otherwise, small IT businesses can qualify to lower that tax to 14%. All that's left after that is the income tax - 13% flat.
Which country you would ask? Russia. That's why I wrote "Solely from the taxation perspective" in the opening statement...