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Remote workers are not paying local income taxes, but at some level they are benefiting from the services provided by local income taxes. Immigration policies r
by gnopgnip 8y ago
Remote workers are not paying local income taxes, but at some level they are benefiting from the services provided by local income taxes. Immigration policies restrict foreign workers in part to protect local workers, and tenuously you are still competing with other remote workers in the same country. Immigration policy as a whole has multiple, often conflicting goals, and digital nomads are an afterthought.
- netsharc 8y agoTourists don't pay local taxes but benefit from services like roads or police assistance, and they're welcome because they do bring income to a country when their hotel/restaurant/souvenir shop pays taxes. I think remote workers should be seen similarly.
- isostatic 8y ago> I think remote workers should be seen similarly. And by all means talk to your congressman about passing such laws I for one will be not paying my income tax this year, as I bring income to the country when my landlord/restaurant/cinema pays taxes.