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You tell me your situation. I tell you what it means in the Czech Republic: which setup fits, what you will really pay, and what to do first. With numbers for 2026, not general advice. I have lived and worked in the Czech Republic as an expat since 2006: I have seen it all.
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He's quite clever: short answers from our 2026 guides, with links.
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Your whole situation
Tax, insurance, VAT, visa, s.r.o. Recorded, with transcript and summary.
Book a consultationI looked at 112 recorded consultations from the last 16 months. Almost nobody comes with one question. Invoicing, tax, insurance and VAT are connected, and a decision on one changes the others. That is why a consultation covers your whole situation, not one topic.
Share of consultations in which the topic came up, July 2025 – October 2026.
Real situations from 2026, without names. Each one took about an hour.
Starting a business
She wanted a company for two new ventures, because a company sounds safer. We compared the numbers side by side: up to 2 million CZK revenue a trade license costs less in tax, accounting and admin, and the s.r.o. adds little real protection for her kind of work. She started with a trade license and can still switch later.
Leaving the Czech Republic
He was moving to Portugal and wanted to close his trade license. We paused it instead, so his public health insurance continued until the move. A large stock sale turned out to need no declaration at all. And going through his figures, we found a tax refund of almost 50,000 CZK he didn't know about.
New job
He started at a large company and planned to pause his trade license. Keeping it as a secondary activity was simpler and cheaper: the social and health advances stop, the tax advances are reduced, and he can keep invoicing on the side. We sent the notifications to the authorities for him.
Moving to Prague
He wanted to move his business to Prague. With his income from events and trading, and his current setup abroad, the Czech Republic would have cost him more and solved nothing. I told him so. Not every consultation ends with an order, and it shouldn't.
So did almost 4 in 10 of the people I talked to. AI is fast and sounds sure of itself. On Czech rules it is often out of date or simply wrong, and it doesn't stand behind its answer. I do.
Consultations, intro calls and tax return meetings booked with me since 2024. The peaks every spring are tax return season. And all year round, people write to us to start a business or to solve a problem with one.
meetings in total
Source: booking calendar, finished meetings only. October 2026 is up to the 25th.
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