Which is better for companies to invest abroad, to invest in other companies as natural persons or to invest as legal persons? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Since the subject has said "when the company invests abroad", it cannot be used as a natural person. Because the company's foreign investment is shown as "long-term investment" in the account, if the investment money is invested in the name of an individual, it needs to be remitted to the personal card first, which forms an individual borrowing from the company.

Wouldn't it be better to compare individuals as shareholders? It is better for the company to be a shareholder. Then I can try to explain:

From the tax point of view, the company should be better. For example, if the invested company pays dividends to individuals, individuals need to pay 20% tax. If the dividends are returned to the company, the company can amortize them in other ways, and there will be no enterprise income tax as long as it is not profitable.

In decision-making, individuals are better. If the invested company wants to hold a shareholders' meeting, individual shareholders are obviously better at making decisions than company shareholders. Shareholders of the company need to hold internal meetings to study proposals to make decisions, which is inefficient.

Of course, if there are many natural person shareholders, it is definitely not as good as the company. This is also the reason why many companies set up limited partnerships as investment platforms when encouraging employees. Because many individual shareholders change frequently, it is very troublesome to go to the industrial and commercial bureau to change and amend the company's articles of association.

If these shareholders are installed in a limited partnership, the increase or decrease of the internal number will not affect the change of the main company.

Of course, in addition to the above factors, but also depends on the real development direction of the invested company, can not be generalized.