I’m currently paying taxes in my home country (UK) since I have a regular job with a UK company. I live in Estonia with a DNV (and most likely plan on staying the full year).

Technically, if I stay more than 6 months I need to pay taxes here, however, they seem to make it quite complicated and expensive, given my employer doesn’t have an entity here.

This just got me thinking whether you guys in a similar situation just ignore this and assume nobody will say anything, or do you do everything by the book? Or do you make sure you don’t stay more than 183 days?

  • ScotlandHighlander@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think what he needs to do is hire a UK accountant to reclaim 100% of the taxes he paid to the UK government. Then hire an accountant in Estonia. You can probably set up an Estonia based company, wire your company a few thousand dollars every month, and pay Estonia taxes only on the amount you pay yourself. Estonia has a low tax rate so you might end up keeping more money even with accounting fees.

    • myr_95@alien.top
      BEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You’re not getting the point of what I was saying. If he does that, his employer would probably fire him. This is because from a uk company is kind of a nightmare having an employee abroad (it’s different if he’s a freelance contractor)

      Sure he is paying “useless” tax in UK but at the same time, this helps to keep his job. The reclaiming on tax could not be as much as the benefit of keeping his current job.