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Question to the crowd.

What if you are not staying more than 3 months in a country, per year?

Where are you tax resident?

Are you even legally resident somewhere?

Should you even pay taxes? Who is going to catch you?

Honest question. I'm not American, part time nomad, paying taxes but thinking about the uselessness of doing so quite often.


There's something called 'Fiscal nomad' or 'Tax nomad'. This basically means you don't pay taxes anywhere because you don't live anywhere permanently. Since most countries will only allow you to stay for three months per year, this means that you need to rotate through at least four countries per year.

I would imagine that the viability of this largely depends on what country you're a citizen of.


I recently read this article [1] from a digital nomad. He founded a LLC in Hong Kong where offshore profits are not taxed so apparently your LLC in HK doesn't pay any taxes. And he is not a tax resident anywhere.

https://wirelesslife.de/unternehmensgruendung-im-ausland-mei...


thanks!


I'm French and I agree with this. I left a long time ago.

Add:

- the absurd administration burden to do anything

- the absurd prices of anything in Paris

- the lack of consideration for anything that is not in Paris

- the denial of your rights because there might be some terrorists

No way, no reviens Leon.


What if I don't want to live in Paris? After all, there are other cities, yes?


Paris's relationship to France is something like NYC's to New York State.

Sure, Buffalo exists, but would you start a startup there?


If you don't want to find clients, then by all means live somewhere else. ;)

France is very Paris-centric, especially in terms of the service industry.


There is a startup scene in Toulouse and this city is really nice (and close to the sea and the moutains)


Let's make it simple:

Paris has maybe 10% of the tech scene of London.

Lyon (2nd city of France) has maybe 10% of the tech scene of Paris.


Legal structures need to be adapted. In Europe for equity crowdfunding, there is a "nominee structure" for example. It removes lots of pain for entrepreneurs, investors and the middleman.


Doudou, tu viens plus aux soirées ?



how is this even a news?


I can't help myself but when I read "pure" somewhere, it smells marketing bullshit scam.



I highly recommend too. Quiet in the afternoon until 19.00 when they turn the volume up. Plus their banana shake is amazing!


My very first thought whenever I want to read more about a website/blog, subscribe to the RSS.

I see less and less the RSS button though, so I have to play with the URL /feed or /rss to get the feed. Too bad.


Have you tried just putting the main website URL into your reader? Many support autodiscovery[1], as long as the site has the proper HTML tags set up.

[1] http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery


Firefox has a Subscribe button which you can use, though it is not there by default (to get it, open the customiser, at the bottom of the menu, and you can then drag that Subscribe button into the menu.)


View source and search for "feed" or "rss" or "atom" or even "xml".


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