That would be tax fraud in two separate countries, and depending on local laws, a crime in the country the individual is working from. Connecting through a cor

That would be tax fraud in two separate countries, and depending on local laws, a crime in the country the individual is working from. Connecting through a corporate VPN to the corporate network wouldn't shield your location, and I'm not aware of any company that lets employees connect using their own VPNs? With corporate VPN connections, it's usually pretty easy to trace back to the geographic area of the connecting IP, and IT generally keeps logs of these. While most companies are cool with short term remote work in other countries (especially for employees who do not work on revenue-generating products or services), undisclosed long term remote work is generally grounds for for-cause termination.