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First enter your starting situation, the comparable annual profit, your personal needs, and a planned managing director’s salary. Then review the example assumptions for costs, insurance, and deductions. Compare both leaving the money in the business and using it entirely privately.

€1,200 for the sole proprietorship and €3,600 each for the UG and GmbH are illustrative annual budgets, not calculated market prices. The info box at the respective field shows an example breakdown. Replace the total with your own planning or a quote. Costs already deducted from profit must not be entered again.

The example values provide a first orientation. Leave an unresolved activity or insurance status explicitly open. Then check how much your result fluctuates with plausibly higher costs or lower profit. For the decision, the key open points should be clarified.

No. The comparison depends, among other things, on profit, salary, personal cash needs, costs, and use of profit. Money that stays in the GmbH is not the same as money available privately. The counter-check therefore additionally shows the maximum private use under the same assumptions.

An annual profit does not tell you when money arrives in your account. The payment plan therefore takes your reserve and normal or weak months into account separately. That way you can see whether planned compensation and expenses need additional financing in the meantime.

The calculation values you enter are processed in this application in your browser and are not sent to a CRM. The consulting button opens the contact page. You can save or print the evaluation yourself; the entries are lost on restart.

The finder is a guide for orientation. Special tax cases, the recognition of compensation, social insurance status, and a change of legal form require an individual review. Team start-ups receive a structural classification because each shareholder’s tax data and stakes are relevant.