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Hello,

Sorry in advance if this is the wrong community to ask in, new here (and if so please direct me to the correct one)

I am looking to register a company in the EU to carry out business activities there. I am not currently a tax resident or citizen of an EU country, although I hold Greek permanent residency. I am a freelance in the creative industries and will be the sole shareholder and paying myself through dividends not a salary and paying taxes in my current country.

Greece is as far as I understand a bureaucratic nightmare. I am looking at Estonia’s ‘e-residency’ program although there doesn’t really seem to he honest opinions of it online as well as Cyprus due to almost no taxes on IP which would benefit me.

Important factors are ease of dealing with bureaucracy, less registration and accounting fees and ability to open a Euro-denominated bank account. Less taxes are also obviously positive but that’s not a main concern.

As the title says I am trying to see where people stand on this. Obviously this is all personal preference. But that is what I am after.

After depleting our savings when buying our apartment 2 years ago, we’re about to cross 6 months liquid savings in just plain old savings account with ability to immediately withdraw money.

(To clarify that is 6 month assuming 0 income, which is very unlikely given the social system of our country - so realistically we have even more in savings.)

As you can imagine, the interest in this account is not great, so I want to set a limit as to when we stop dumping every spare penny into the savings account and begin doing other things (likely try to invest).

As the title mentions, the company I work at is offering free shares when buying back some of the company's shares, as well as a discount, depending on the amount of shares purchased.

Could any of you advise me if it would be a good idea to start investing into this? If not, could anyone suggest any other investment avenues to a complete n00b like me?

Thanks in advance!