Advice for an app development company
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Well, I have nothing against Zoho ”“ on the contrary, e.g. their e-mail service respects privacy.
Nevertheless, after looking at Ulaa - Private, Secure, and Superfast Browser I am deeply disappointed: almost no technical information ”“ I had to dig deeply into the blog to confirm my hypothesis that this was just another Chromium fork; no source code visibly available and lack of the information about developers (but a lot of marketing bulls**t); no serious discussion / comparison with another privacy-focused browsers...
Let's wait and see...
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I am just a simple countryman. Anything I say is only a personal opinion, not a certified advice 🙂
If you think it makes sense, you can like it; if opposite, please, tell me, why I am wrong...
Nevertheless, after looking at Ulaa - Private, Secure, and Superfast Browser I am deeply disappointed: almost no technical information ”“ I had to dig deeply into the blog to confirm my hypothesis that this was just another Chromium fork; no source code visibly available and lack of the information about developers (but a lot of marketing bulls**t); no serious discussion / comparison with another privacy-focused browsers...
Let's wait and see...
What do you mean? Dead on Arrival? Could you elaborate a little bit about the background?
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I am just a simple countryman. Anything I say is only a personal opinion, not a certified advice 🙂
If you think it makes sense, you can like it; if opposite, please, tell me, why I am wrong...
If it's Chromium based and closed source, I see no advantage over for example Brave or the recently released Mullvad Browser. Or even regular Chromium with privacy extensions.
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This is the probably the answer to your question.
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This is the probably the answer to your question.
Like you and Sols said, there's no advantage over for example Brave or the recently released Mullvad Browser.
They are wasting money for a product that nobody cares about.
guys, I don't know what you'd expect... no matter how imperfect these tools are I'm personally happy that people at least have some "less bad" options that are actively promoted and can reduce the blatant theft of private information mined during browsing the web
development of any solution that wouldn't be based on chromium or another existing core, the more open source, is two/three orders of magnitude more complicated and expensive and no matter how strong incentives we (users of this forum) see, it's probably not gonna happen (any soon)
development of any solution that wouldn't be based on chromium or another existing core, the more open source, is two/three orders of magnitude more complicated and expensive and no matter how strong incentives we (users of this forum) see, it's probably not gonna happen (any soon)
I don't think anyone was objecting to it. It just seems like a rather pointless browser to launch when it offers no advantage over existing browsers that do the same thing better.
You're not framing our criticism correctly. The reason this browser is likely dead on arrival (outside of Zoho's most ardent fans) is it's competing against other, well-established browsers in the same niche of the market without any advantages. If they had picked another base, such as Firefox or WebKit, it could have been an advantage and something new and interesting on the market.
It would be great if Ulaa is successful and does what it says it'll do. As long as it's closed source, though, I wouldn't put any trust in it doing what it claims to do. Why trust Ulaa without being able to verify, when you can both trust and verify others?
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This is the probably the answer to your question.
fair enough
maybe I picked the less important part of your criticism
my point was we cannot expect much more
and the rest can be wrapped to "more freedom of choice is better then less"
Hi everyone,
I run an app development business and currently have to pay withholding tax in our country of origin for advertising payments. We're planning to establish a new company in a low-tax jurisdiction to handle these ad payments, while maintaining our local company. (Apple sales will be sufficient to cover ad costs; other sales will continue through the local company.)
I'm also considering relocating. If we do relocate, we plan to stop using our local company altogether.
EMIs aren't sufficient for receiving payments from Apple and Google,they only accept a proper bank account with an IBAN, and the account must be in the same country as the company.
From what I’ve gathered here, popular options include the UAE and Bulgaria. Opening a bank account in Cyprus and Estonia has been very difficult for us. Also, Apple and Google don’t seem to support Georgian merchant accounts.
Are there any other options we might be missing?
I run an app development business and currently have to pay withholding tax in our country of origin for advertising payments. We're planning to establish a new company in a low-tax jurisdiction to handle these ad payments, while maintaining our local company. (Apple sales will be sufficient to cover ad costs; other sales will continue through the local company.)
I'm also considering relocating. If we do relocate, we plan to stop using our local company altogether.
EMIs aren't sufficient for receiving payments from Apple and Google,they only accept a proper bank account with an IBAN, and the account must be in the same country as the company.
From what I’ve gathered here, popular options include the UAE and Bulgaria. Opening a bank account in Cyprus and Estonia has been very difficult for us. Also, Apple and Google don’t seem to support Georgian merchant accounts.
Are there any other options we might be missing?
Have you tyoed this yourself or was it copied from some ChatGPT? Because it is hard to read with that much waste space.
Opening a bank account for a company in the same country as you reside with a valid visa is generally no problem.
Why merchant accounts? You just need a normal bank account.
Opening a bank account for a company in the same country as you reside with a valid visa is generally no problem.
Why merchant accounts? You just need a normal bank account.
Oh sorry. I don't have much experience with the forum, just tried to make it more readable.
To monetize with in-app purchases, you need to have a bank account on their list of supported countries.
We couldn't open a bank account with Estonian e-residency. Also it's hard for us to open a bank account in Cyprus because of our nationality.
To monetize with in-app purchases, you need to have a bank account on their list of supported countries.
We couldn't open a bank account with Estonian e-residency. Also it's hard for us to open a bank account in Cyprus because of our nationality.
Thanks. The supported countries are here:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9306917
Yes, seems Georgia is not part of the game. But Bulgaria etc. is.
If you are from Türkiye, you will need to have a proper residence visa in the place of your company, banks will open accounts then.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9306917
Yes, seems Georgia is not part of the game. But Bulgaria etc. is.
If you are from Türkiye, you will need to have a proper residence visa in the place of your company, banks will open accounts then.
@offber if you have a US LLC and tax residency in Georgia. Does Google / Apple then treat you as US company and pay out to your US LLC?
No sadly, I've been researching this more and it looks like they get your W-8BEN and then treat that as a look through and look for ownership, and then withhold tax based on if that jurisdiction's tax treaties. Seems like Singapore (10% withholding), Ireland, Hungary or Malta might all be options to reduce it but all come with a lot more work.
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No sadly, I've been researching this more and it looks like they get your W-8BEN and then treat that as a look through and look for ownership, and then withhold tax based on if that jurisdiction's tax treaties. Seems like Singapore (10% withholding), Ireland, Hungary or Malta might all be options to reduce it but all come with a lot more work.
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I think we had this discussion elsewhere and it seems that they do pay out to US bank accounts for US LLCs.
Post in thread 'Using Delaware/Wyoming LLC for Consulting Comp + App Store / SaaS Revenue (No US Tax, No 1120-F?)'
Jun 21, 2025
daniels27 said:
Will they then pay out to US banks or only to your real jurisdiction?
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No, they pay out to US banks but your tax residency is considered to calclate the withhoding tax.
Hence, I guess the problem is pretty solved?
No sadly, I've been researching this more and it looks like they get your W-8BEN and then treat that as a look through and look for ownership, and then withhold tax based on if that jurisdiction's tax treaties. Seems like Singapore (10% withholding), Ireland, Hungary or Malta might all be options to reduce it but all come with a lot more work.
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I think we had this discussion elsewhere and it seems that they do pay out to US bank accounts for US LLCs.
Post in thread 'Using Delaware/Wyoming LLC for Consulting Comp + App Store / SaaS Revenue (No US Tax, No 1120-F?)'
Jun 21, 2025
daniels27 said:
Will they then pay out to US banks or only to your real jurisdiction?
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No, they pay out to US banks but your tax residency is considered to calclate the withhoding tax.
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Hence, I guess the problem is pretty solved?
bdt said:
They'll pay out, but from what I understand, withhold 30% taxes. If the op doesn't mind about that then yes, he's fine!
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You can use a Georgian taxpayer that owns a US LLC. That way, Google pays to the US bank account while you get your money without withholding taxes in Georgia.
They'll pay out, but from what I understand, withhold 30% taxes. If the op doesn't mind about that then yes, he's fine!
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You can use a Georgian taxpayer that owns a US LLC. That way, Google pays to the US bank account while you get your money without withholding taxes in Georgia.
Interesting, looks like they still honor the old USSR tax treaty. Interesting source below:
https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/united-states/corporate/withholding-taxes?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/united-states/corporate/withholding-taxes?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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