Can I run a business there

🇩🇪 Germany

Statutory combined rate

30.13% (2026)

Effective average rate (EATR)

26.78% (2025)

Effective marginal rate (EMTR)

11.13%

Cost of capital

3.33%

Statutory minus effective average

3.3 points

Under the country's own interest and inflation

EATR 27% · EMTR 2.47%

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Effective rates are OECD's forward-looking model of a hypothetical investment in a composite asset under fixed interest and inflation assumptions — a property of the tax system, not any company's bill. Incentive regimes, losses and sector rules are outside it.

🇹🇭 Thailand → 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Treaty rates are the maximum the treaty allows and usually need a residence certificate to claim; the recipient may still owe tax at home. A pair with no treaty figure is one OECD publishes no rate for, which is not the same as no treaty existing.

🇵🇹 Portugal

Days to register, local owner

30

Cost, local owner

EUR 360 (≈ $407)

Days · cost, foreign owner

45 · EUR 410 (≈ $463)

Minimum paid-in capital (local · foreign)

Yes · Yes

Sectors closed to full private ownership · national-employee quota

Yes · No

Online with e-signature · fees payable online · unique business id

Yes · Yes · Yes

New companies per 1,000 adults

11 (2024, 73,740 registered)

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Entry figures are B-READY expert answers for the largest business city, for a standard limited company; the foreign-owned figures assume a foreign parent. Costs are converted at the site's FX snapshot and the local figure is the one to quote.

No founder or investor route at all: AU, IN.

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Programmes open, pause and reprice through the year (Canada paused its Start-up Visa; Australia closed subclass 188), endorsement bodies apply their own tests, and dependants raise the funds required. Each row names the page it was read from and the date.
• Thresholds are compared in USD at the site's FX snapshot; the row carries the original figure. Endorsement, business-plan and qualification tests are not modelled.
• One or more entries were read from secondary reporting because the official page could not be fetched; see each row's confidence.

$81,160 a year to employ — $67,152 gross plus $14,008 employer contributions (20.9%).

Wage basis: measured (ILOSTAT 2022, pay-range midpoint) . For context, OECD's employee income tax is 17.2% and its tax wedge 49.3% — shown, not applied.

🇵🇹 Portugal

Days to clear, imports · exports

7.5 · 11

Cost to comply, imports · exports (% of goods value)

18.9% · 10.9%

Firms exporting by parcel service

16.4%

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Firm-survey averages from B-READY's International Trade topic: days to clear all border agencies and the cost of complying with export and import requirements as a share of goods value, for the firms surveyed in the largest business city. A small sample moves them; they describe typical goods trade, not any shipment.

🇵🇹 Portugal

Hours on tax compliance a year (median)

72

Filing · paying electronically

100% · 99.4%

Weeks to an audit report · to a VAT refund

4 · 5

Firms citing a too-long refund process

34.6%

Social-security share of labour cost · reported effective rate

25.2% · 20.5%

• Tax rates, registration facts and visa conditions as published by the named sources on the dates shown, for information only. This is not tax, legal or immigration advice; how a rule applies to a company or a founder depends on facts this tool does not hold. Confirm with the authority before acting.
• Firm-survey figures from B-READY's Taxation topic (medians and shares for the firms surveyed in the largest business city). The reported effective rate is what firms say they pay as a share of income; it is neither the statutory rate nor OECD's modelled effective rate, and the three should not be compared to each other.