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It’s a typical holding structure. Mostly chosen in Germany to get tax-efficiency that’s on par internationally, ie for finding and selling shares to investors.

> It's a cool legal structure

No it’s not cool at all that you have to double down on the Byzantine-ness to get a reasonable amount of taxation, „investsbility“ and limited liability. Especially for digital products.

> eating your cake and having it too

This is so typical of our country, the passive aggressive condemnation of founders as greedy, and selfish to even desire fewer taxes and limited liability.

Well if in a couple of years all the German Blue Chips will celebrate their bicentennials, while all the moonshots are LLM-oneshotted outside of Germany, not even talking about „normal“ incorporations: who is going to finance our vast welfare state? Speaking about

> eating your cake and having it too

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