Ah okay, you guys get taxed a lot less then. We have an income tax free portion that slides to 0 by I think 25200 euros annually, at which point you always have to pay 22% of your gross, next year it’ll be 24. And your employer always has to pay 33% on top of your grose too.

In Estonia with a company car it’s basically “Oh I use it to visit clients” if you ever get asked. Doesn’t matter what your company does and if sales is involved - you’re just visiting established clients from time to time for business reasons, instead of having, idk, an online meeting, or sending an email.

And nobody at the tax administration seems to care if you visit your customers in a Dacia or a Porsche. And if someone DOES ask, the whole presentation thing you pointed out, would be an excellent excuse.

How’s income taxation?

Here in Estonia we have 22% income tax if you earn enough, but also there’s a 33% tax on the employer’s side + some tiny ones on both sides. 22% sounds completely fine except your pre-tax income is NOT what your employer pays for you, they pay a significant extra. Which is still coming out of your salary in the end, because your employer has to offer you a lower pretax income lol

I’m not, but I looked into the CoL as it’s the highest paying country in the EU for software engineers. Maybe it was just the it private ones that are paid and I was looking at those implicitly because I was looking at international ones where it wouldn’t be expected for kids to speak Dutch at home already

Ah fair enough, not sure the reduced VAT for bread of children’s clothing is going to matter much compared to the insane 1000+ euro kindergarten fees per kid monthly (in the Netherlands). Some of the rest might be nice places to live though.

Oh here in Estonia you just declare the VAT and you’ll be good. They COULD look up what’s going on, but the Lamborghini Urus I saw registered as “for work driving only” the other day, begs to differ. You can look up vehicle data for all Estonian reg vehicles and oftentimes you’ll see them as being company cars without an exception for private driving (which would cost extra taxes, based on engine power)

Someone wanna tell me one of those countries with reduced VAT for children’s clothing or bread?

We get reduced VAT on hotel stays and medicine only. Bread, children’s clothing (or more importantly if you need to use it, milk formula, which is going to cost you more) are all full VAT. Estonian here.

Well it IS pretty nice to be able to tell people to go to jellyfin.example.com instead of example.com:8096, but you also get security benefits for using a properly set up reverse proxy. You don’t need to keep your ports open to the whole internet, only the reverse proxy accesses them. As far as the rest of the internet is concerned, you have :443 open.

Edit: Forgot to add, Caddy and NPM and such can also automatically renew your certificates!