Why 10%+10%+10% beats pure low-tax jurisdictions

The one-number trap

Pure low-tax hubs sell a single headline: no personal income tax. What they rarely solve is everything around it. Your company may still be taxed where it is managed. Substance and reporting rules can be demanding. Living costs in the glossiest 0% hubs are high. And none of it does anything for the reserves you accumulate — which, in a 0% jurisdiction, typically sit in an account earning close to nothing.

You can win the tax line and still lose ground, because the win was never the whole game.

Three numbers, not one

The Method targets the three numbers that compound against you if you ignore them:

• Personal tax at 10% instead of 40–50% — but inside the EU, through genuine Bulgarian residency, so the base is credible.
• Corporate tax at 10% on a properly run EU company, with 5% on dividends — your business profit taxed once, cleanly.
• 10%+ on your savings through Georgian high-yield banking as the third pillar — the reserves you build actually earn.

A 0% jurisdiction, honestly measured, usually delivers one of these well, one unevenly, and the third not at all. The head-to-head against Dubai, Portugal and a Georgia-only setup shows where each falls short.

Why the third ten matters most over time

Lower tax is a one-time rate change. Yield compounds. A founder who keeps €300,000 in reserve and earns 10%+ gross on it, year after year, ends up far ahead of someone with a marginally lower tax rate whose cash sits idle. That is the quiet advantage of the Method: it doesn't just reduce what you lose, it grows what you keep. See the real numbers for a €200k and €500k earner.