Podcast 314: How do digital nomads pay their taxes?
Many tech companies are shifting to make remote work the norm. Employees get a lot of freedom, but there are a few wrinkles to consider.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Almost all software developers are being asked to work fully remote, and many companies are moving to keep this arrangement permanent. This raises a lot of new questions around taxes, legal liabilities, and compensation.
Episode Notes
A nice story on how to avoid the Nomad Tax Trap.
Got a lot of employees moving to Texas? The state is notorious for the number of patent lawsuits filed there, and having employees living in the area may expose companies to great legal liability.
If the work from home boom is here to stay, get ready for a lot of “cost-of-living” adjustments to follow.
Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to kd12 for explaining: How to get an element by its data-id in jQuery
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9 Comments
It would be great to have an episode on Global digital nomads and taxes instead of the US only.
I thought this too. Hardly a Nomad just moving to a different state.
Totally. This seems aimed pretty squarely at a domestic US audience who move around a bit, not ‘nomads’ in the sense that I understand that word
Not listened yet, but good subject. Historically, societies want nomads to settle just for making them pay taxes.
> How do digital nomads pay their taxes?
Gave me a good laugh. The creatives who have the opportunity and use it to travel around the world working here and there and from somewhere remote — why do they need to care about taxes in the first place? It is a problem invented and introduced by the mooching looters who want to get their “share” by pointing a gun at you. So why the heck do I have to care? How is that my issue?
If they want to kill or punish me for not paying taxes, well so be it. They will not get any more taxes from me then either, that’s for sure but you can’t call them murderer because they have the law on their side so their punishment is legal. Fuck them all. They need us,. but we certainly don’t need them.
Agree !!!!
They change their address listed with their employer to their mothers house in CT and then lie on visa applications or jump between countries every 3-6 months.
That taxes are complicated for digital nomads moving between various states of the USA, or between various nations of this planet, was already clear to me.
I would have liked to have heard something about what is to be expected/to be done. I heard nothing.
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