Keep in mind that lying to your employer can open you up to legal repercussions. And it can also open your employer to same.

Yeah, the lying is definitely not something that should be done when your company is involved with handling protected information of any kind (health records, government stuff, likely some financials as well).

Since that can be more properly illegal, as opposed to just against company policy.

Just never offer more than absolutely required.

Also, sometimes the “Asking” is giving them an opportunity to say know, while just stating it they might not even think about it as being something that they might need to approve.

This can actually be more difficult than the global variant.

States are stricter on the cross border employment requirements than countries are.

So then…that’s the same, no?

In the US any US carrier can carry anyone anywhere.

In the EU any EU carrier can carry anyone anywhere.

I have, and great at least so far.

I got a new drivers license right before I did it, so I don’t have that concern for a…few more years…

That would be the main issue. Since Drivers licenses are state based not federal, and they may want to use you getting a new driver’s license as a reason you are ACTUALLY a resident.

But I have converted it to a UAE license. And luckily that expires for the first time before my California one does, so I can see if I am able to renew the UAE one without actually presenting my California one.

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If you have a visa that allows residency, you can get a bank account.

That’s true for all countries.

Some may accept the Visa itself as proof, some may require you wait until you get your actual residents ID.

Try some different banks, maybe ones focused at younger people.

Making an account at ENDB in Dubai is annoying, since it’s “old school” and wants all kinds of paper. Meanwhile, Liv, ENDB’s own “millennial” bank can open an account on a mobile app in 10 minutes.

I have a comfortable enough social safety net that I’m okay running it a bit lower depending on context (like going over the threshold to visit family for holidays or meet investment goals). Obviously, need to pay that back, but I haven’t really needed it yet either.

If I actually went negative, I have access to other money.

Right now I’m a bit low due to some delayed invoice payments from clients, a recent surgery, and flights and other costs related to the Holidays.

I wouldn’t do like a year, that seems way too much, unless your work is very unstable and you have no social safety net.

3 months is comfortable.

Well, don’t put all your money in the account…

I say I’m self employed. Because I am. So I can sign it myself.

They may issue a warrant for your arrest. But it isn’t fundamentally illegal, considering the very real possibility the request never finds you.

So if it does happen, it would be a significant inconvenience, but not a crime.

But if you don’t intend to go back for a while, why are you still pretending to be a resident? Just cut the cord.

There’s certainly indicators.

Like, for example, you being on a virtual work visa that requires showing proof of work, but then you try to say you made no money.

So, in SOME way, you’re doing something that is against the rules.

you don’t understand what this means. if you are living in portugal, working from your laptop, that is locally sourced income.

To be fair. different countries use this claim differently.

But yes, it generally would be based on (with work from your laptop) where you were physically present when you did the work. That’s the source.

This is possible, in part, due to Portugal’s 71 double taxation treaties. According to the regime, as long as the source country of your income has the power to tax your income (regardless of whether or not they actually apply the tax), Portugal will not tax your foreign-sourced income

This is false. Just about all of it.

That isn’t how these double taxation treaties work.

What it actually means is that if multiple countries can assess you for taxes, they both do at whatever the rate is and they get a dollar amount.

Then the most direct claim against your taxes (typically the one of the country you are physically present in when working) takes their tax.

then the second/others look at their number, and subtract the taxes you already pad to the first country. And now they take their tax if the number is still positive.

So, no, it has nothing to do with just “a country CAN tax your income”, but SPECIFICALLY how much taxes they take.

Possible yes.

But also helps to define “high paying”.

And factor in the reduced tax liability…

Well, broadly speaking, if you think about the intent of the laws, this isn’t that confusing. Such labour laws exist for the purpose of protecting the domestic work force, primarily those that have the skills to perform that job locally.

In the event of specific executive stuff, it’s specific. There isn’t actually competition.

On top of just the fact some Executive isn’t going to just overstay and illegally move there.

Add on even further that if a country wants to court foreign investments, requiring the foreign company executives to get work visas for everyone they send to the country to just inspect things and have a meeting would be a major difficulty in the context.

Want to speak at a conference in our country? Get a work visa!

Probably wouldn’t have many conferences hosted in your country. Most of the “business” contexts are ones where the country WANTS people to come in.

Business activities on tourist visa are allowed.

Theres nothing inherently illegals about working remotely for a month or so on tourist visa.

Yes, on the first.

The second is wrong. Working is not Business.

Probably up to the time the plane leaves the gate.

Competition is allowed in the US…

Hell, it was barely 30 years ago that the (at the time) largest airline to ever exist shut down in the US due to the competition.

Generally speaking, you owe taxes for all work conducted inside of a country.

You may not become a bona fide tax resident until whatever the timeline is (normally 6 months) which changes how you are taxed (and what benefits you get for those taxes), not that you are taxed.

But also, if you are on a tourist visa, you can’t legally work. So by trying to pay taxes, you tell them you were illegally working.

Mostly, countries don’t enforce this much onto this kind of group. You aren’t actually competing against local labor, and you also aren’t getting most of the benefits those taxes fund. So it’s just a very low priority.

I can’t imagine any countries really cracking down on it until they at least have some fairly simple digital worker visa, since otherwise they just aren’t offering anything that you could ACTUALLY do to make it legal.