[erispoe]

You don't need business plans and all that stuff. The problem in Germany for instance is that a GmbH needs 25k of capital + expensive notarization. These are the only two things that need improvement.

[rmoriz]

You can start an Unternehmergesellschaft (UG) within days with a template. However tax filing burdens will costs you around 2000€ baseline a year without having a single Euro of revenue let alone profit.

[anonzzzies]

In NL at least some of that changed; no more payment. It used to be 19k guilders and after about half in euros. Now nothing. The rest still the same.

[Jean-Philipe]

Came here to say the same. Founding a company in Germany is way to complicated and expensive... same for dismantling a company. I don't understand why you need a notary for everything.

[anonzzzies]

Clear right? Because of notaries? They are powerful as everything official goes through them. They also do nothing usually; their underpaid underling presses a few buttons, enters a few names (often wrong the first time), prints and so on and then notary reads and signs. Money made. Luckily this has been changing a lot that some notaries smelled a rat coming and started to go for mass market, heavily undercutting all others for standard contracts; in some cities I have seen these type of places eating all the other ones. They are fast and cheap until you need custom stuff.