The world has changed. Just look at how in some of our lifetimes (mine included), Swiss bankers would pull up to your house in a Mercedes and take a bag of money you made from your copper recycling company, get in a jet, fly back to Switzerland and deposit your money in a numbered bank account.
Nowadays you’ve got the Panama Papers, and a fast-approaching tax haven blacklist and worldwide FATCA. Everyone from the US government to the OECD is freaked out about the so-called dangers of banking privacy.
And, because of that, the world has changed for good.
And, since the world has changed, you have to be keenly aware of the various implications of your decisions when you set up your company. So let’s go through those considerations (for both an online business and offline business, there really is no difference).