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**chadknowslaw** · 09-08-2008, 12:53 AM

I believe you would need to form a non-German company and operate your business outside of Germany.

gottsimon · 09-08-2008, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by basschick

as i understand it, porn sites are legal in germany, but must use the german government-approved avs before any explicit material or any pics of models showing - for example - a huge bulge in their underwear. unlike other avs's, each german person who wants to access german porn via their avs goes in in person, i believe to the post office, to show that they're the person with the i.d. and the same person who wants the AVS membership.

Thats exactly the problem, and the internet is not censord. so for users its much easyer to acess non german sites.

Originally Posted by chadknowslaw

I believe you would need to form a non-German company and operate your business outside of Germany.

i believe so too. has anyone here any experiences? were for example should i found that company? panama, seychelles, whatever?

thanks for your anwsers by the way. and sorry for my english

bye simon

**chadknowslaw** · 09-08-2008, 03:45 PM

If you decide to form a company outside of Germany, do not make your decision based upon ill-advised notions of tax haven jurisdictions. Tax haven jurisdictions can be beneficial for trusts or investors that have passive income (money from stock dividends or bond interest) but generally are counter-productive for a small business that actually sells a product.

A natural progression for a new online adult business is to go from free sites and traffic generation to a pay site or other model that has billing needs. If you want to begin billing, you will want a company either in the Visa EU region or Visa US region. There are burdens and benefits to both Visa regions, but you will need a company presence in one of those regions to use those billing solutions, so a company on some Caribbean tax shelter island will be of no use.

You need to examine your business plan, tax issues (do not neglect VAT issues!) and regulatory compliance. Do not believe someone that tells you server location dictates jurisdiction! Where your company is formed and where your customers access your service is much more important than the location of your primary servers.

**nickbaer** · 09-08-2008, 07:03 PM

That is good news. I like being compliant.

My company will always be in the US, no matter where I travel, because I have a Loss Carry Forward from the Dot.Com days, and won't be legally obligated to pay US Income Tax until I'm much older than McCain.