: Moving company abroad? I work for a British agency now, but I'm outsourced for a German project that is partially remote and I'm going to be based mostly in Poland. Not sure how long will be the contract, but it made me think

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Since this is very general I will offer a general answer.
Here is the general confused belief:
"Using a company in Belize/etc I pay no tax on freelance!!
Now here is precisely the error in that thinking:
Every penny you bring back to the UK/US/Etc, you pay tax on just the same. No difference whatsoever.
This is the basic total confusion about the idea behind "no tax in belize for freelancers!"
Say

you live in the UK and Google pays you 0,000 for a job.

you then of course pay normal UK taxes of all types on 0,000. Let's say ,000 for clarity.

Now compare this

you live in the UK

Google pays 0,000 to BelizeSoft for a job. No tax in Belize, yay. So there's 0,000 sitting in the BelizeSoft bank.

BelizeSoft pays you 0,000

you then of course pay normal UK taxes of all types on 0,000. Let's say ,000 for clarity.

There is utterly no advantage. Nothing.
Every cent you repatriate to the UK, you just pay tax on totally normally. Utterly no difference if BelizeSoft pays you or Google pays you.
It's that simple.
Hopefully this explains the base confusion about "freelancing through a tax haven!"
{Obviously, not even mentioned here are the sundry downsides (thousands a year to (pointlessly) maintain such a company, etc etc). And the upsides (in some arcane fields, you may get legal protection doing this, but it's utterly irrelevant to say programers).}