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>I'm talking about tax avoidance, again How is working as a freelancer for a foreign entity tax avoidance, when your following the freelancing laws in your cou

>I'm talking about tax avoidance, again How is working as a freelancer for a foreign entity tax avoidance, when your following the freelancing laws in your country and what you're doing is 10% legal? Just because you're working for a foreign company remotely because the company doesn't have an office here, doesn't mean you're a tax dodger. It just reads like you have a personal vendetta against people working as freelancers for paying less taxes in some countries even though what they're doing is 100% legal. Why are you so upset about some SW dev freelancing remotely for some foreign company to provide for his family, and not upset about all those mega-corporations who have perfected the art of tax avoidance down to a T, that they basically pay no taxes in your country because they siphon everything trough some Dutch/Irish/Luxemburgish funnel.

necovek 3y ago
Who's to say they are not upset at megacorporations? However, I don't see them being upset at anyone. In Serbia, I fully used similar benefits before they were forbidden, but I never considered this to be "fair": it was simply available for other reasons (avoid bookkeeping overhead for tiny businesses) and my foreign contractor (really, employment) relationship fit in just well. Yes, it was 100% legal, but it would be disingenious to claim how a local employee making similar tax and social security contributions was making roughly 5 times less net income is "fair". State was certainly benefiting from me exporting services, but not 5x as much. When it became abused by local companies, those independence provisions were added in, effectively prohibiting it, but I wasn't "upset" even though it meant a larger tax burden and a more complicated setup (an LLC I am employed in).