[codebastard]

That is not true. It easy to create a holding on top of your GmbH in which case you only pay for 5% of the revenue taxes.

The only shoot in the foot is the higher cost of declaring taxes being it in time or in fee for a specialist.

And as long you are working from Germany you have to pay taxes for any kind of money you are going to take out from the company, being ist as dividend or salary.

The only exception is when you are not residing in one country in the EU for longer than 6 Months than you can play around with a LLC construct or other Holding structures from countries that have a double-tax avoidance agreement.