1. You can circumvent most of that by hiring the international remote person as a contractor or by having him incorporate himself as a consultancy firm and then

1. You can circumvent most of that by hiring the international remote person as a contractor or by having him incorporate himself as a consultancy firm and then buy consultancy services from him. It also becomes trivial to fire (don't renew the contract!) 2. Just ship it. Most likely the boards came from a third party manufacturer anyways.