Launching a web business: which are the best countries in Law & Tax

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    Launching a >million user web business:
    Which are the best country locations in Law & Tax ?

    Good day,
    The following topic is huge, but i will try my best to put together a good result in the end,
    so you guys may just pick any of the question you know about:)


    Tax:
    -what are the best locations for a web business? -why are google and facebook in CA (Palo Alto) and Ireland?
    -i read that a Limited on Malta pays max. $10k tax/year - cant be true?

    Law (with examples):
    (You dont need to plan any legal issues but just a big thing with a full user experience and all these Examples will be relevant at some point)

    -Under which conditions must a big web business have multiple legal locations?
    -Or can every site that has just 10.000 international users theoretically be held responsible for all differnt laws in 200 differnt countries?
    -And Why did facebook pick Ireland (for tax) but now they are getting more trouble with user data privacy in europe than if their only location was Palo Alto?

    -What is the location of hidemyass.com?
    -And is there any location for such a service that is (staying) perfectly fine according to politics and copyright (especially when they dont run annymous proxies) ?

    -Can you just legally start up a music/video service like grooveshark or youtube and as soon as it gets relevant traffic contact all the big labels/copyright parties to set regulations or even wait to be contacted?
    - Or do you have to get a contract with them before your first visitor?
    - And why in the World does Vkontakte music shareing work since years?

    -Are there any law save habours that are far from things like sopa,acta compared to other coutnries?
    (Sweden, Iceland, Russia? Other Countries?)

    Relevant law questions in short again:
    How does a Country handle ........?
    ...Privacy of Userdata (example:facebook/Google - especially the new Terms!)
    ...Copyright of cooperate owned data (example:youtube)
    ...Political acceptance of proxies sevices (example:hidemyass.com)

    What are .... by Country?
    ....Telecommunications data retention duration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention)
    ...Sopa/Acta/similar-fondness
    (...Political Censorship)
     
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    joonas, Feb 11, 2012 IP
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