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You don't generally need a work permit though, unless you are taking a job with a local employer. Generally they will have rules for how long you can stay in

by ska 4y ago

You don't generally need a work permit though, unless you are taking a job with a local employer. Generally they will have rules for how long you can stay in the country while working for a foreign employer. As long as you maintain tax residency wherever you are "from" nobody bats an eye. If what you really want to do is live and work in one country while pretending that you live and work in another one, I don't see why either country should facilitate that. It's easy enough to do that "properly" too, form a company or self-employed tax status in the country you are living in, and invoice the company in the country you work for. Then they aren't in a compliance issue and you are paying taxes where you work and live. What's the problem?

em-bee 4y ago
Generally they will have rules for how long you can stay in the country while working for a foreign employer. only if they offer something like a digital nomad visa. otherwise, usually you are not allowed to do any work at all on a tourist visa, even if it's remote work to your home country. nobody cares if you check your work email or do some small stuff, but technically no work is allowed. form a company or self-employed tax status in the country you are living in in most countries you can't do that as a foreign citizen unless you have a proper visa for that. you can probably open a company in a foreign country, but you likely still need a work visa to actually work for your own company. otherwise anyone would just go to open a company just so they can live and work in that country.
- ska 4y ago
  You can, for example, do work in US under a B1 with permission; this isn't a digital nomad visa. It's true you can't necessarily do what you want, where you want. That's fine though, no? > unless you have a proper visa for that Yes, that is part of doing it "properly", I should have been clearer. My point was that there are mechanisms for doing all of this stuff; someone may not like the mechanisms but that's not the same as them not existing.

by ska 4y ago

em-bee 4y ago

Generally they will have rules for how long you can stay in the country while working for a foreign employer. only if they offer something like a digital nomad visa. otherwise, usually you are not allowed to do any work at all on a tourist visa, even if it's remote work to your home country. nobody cares if you check your work email or do some small stuff, but technically no work is allowed. form a company or self-employed tax status in the country you are living in in most countries you can't do that as a foreign citizen unless you have a proper visa for that. you can probably open a company in a foreign country, but you likely still need a work visa to actually work for your own company. otherwise anyone would just go to open a company just so they can live and work in that country.

ska 4y ago
You can, for example, do work in US under a B1 with permission; this isn't a digital nomad visa. It's true you can't necessarily do what you want, where you want. That's fine though, no? > unless you have a proper visa for that Yes, that is part of doing it "properly", I should have been clearer. My point was that there are mechanisms for doing all of this stuff; someone may not like the mechanisms but that's not the same as them not existing.