> if the person is willing to set up a company in their own country I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia this is far simpler than most people re

> if the person is willing to set up a company in their own country I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia this is far simpler than most people realise. There's a range of companies that will do all that for you. They set up and operate the company, they do payroll & taxes, they handle insurance. When I worked remotely for a US company, I was technically a contract employee of an Australian company that existed purely to handle the contact work. I paid them something like $1-$2 per hour (that I worked) to handle all of that, including indemnity insurance, etc. The only hard part was that the people that handled it weren't set up to easily handle foreign currency, and I was being paid in (and invoicing in) USD. Other than that it was easy - in fact it was even better than when I contracted to Australian companies because I didn't need to charge sales tax, so more money went in to my pocket.