How to Hire the Best Expat Tax Service for Americans
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia When it comes to US taxes for expats, I’ve always been very clear: you need an international tax professional. Whether you work overseas and claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, have foreign investments that provide an income, or...
Is Taxation Theft? The Nomad Capitalist Perspective
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The question “Is taxation theft?” pops up in the comments of a lot of our YouTube videos. There is a very passionate group that will bring it up as often as they can. Sometimes, that phrase comes with a question mark, sometimes with an...
How to Avoid Paying Taxes: Tax Evasion vs. Avoidance
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Believe it or not, we get a lot of messages about big tax bills. Our helpdesk is often flooded with people who’ve found out exactly what personal and corporate tax rates are going to do with the income from their incredibly successful...
Legal Strategies to Reduce Payroll Tax
Dateline: Bogota, Colombia Since the American Civil War, US citizens living abroad have had to deal with citizenship-based taxation. Whereas every other country in the world uses residential, territorial or even zero tax systems to determine taxable income, US...
Why I Hate Easy Taxes, Passports, and Banking
Dateline: Mexico City, Mexico Easy is a word that is used . . . well, too easily. From time to time I talk about how something I did was easy. For instance, I’ve talked before about how easy it is to open a bank account in Georgia. But I’ll be the first to admit that...
How To Pay Less Taxes: 5 Offshore Methods
Dateline: Mexico City, Mexico When most people think of how they can structure their lives so that they don’t have to pay taxes, their first thought is that they have to go live in Dubai. Surprisingly, this just isn’t the case. There are more ways than you might...
9 Types of Taxes To Avoid when Moving Offshore
Dateline: Tbilisi, Georgia There are so many different types of tax that you have to consider when you’re living and traveling all around the world. In fact, we all deal with these nine different types of tax on a frequent basis. And if you’re only...
How to Move to a Tax Haven
Dateline: Tivat, Montenegro One of the most frequently asked questions I get in my course of work is one that reveals just how many misconceptions still exist in regards to investing, living, and doing business overseas. The question typically sounds something like...
The Nomad Tax Trap: Why Living “Nowhere” is Harder than Ever
Dateline: Tivat, Montenegro When I was eleven or twelve years-old, my parents began talking about picking up our lives in the United States and transplanting everything to a different country. The idea was to move my father’s business, my family, everything to New...
FAQs: Tax Incentives and Moving to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has been in the news quite a bit lately. Specifically, its status as a new tax haven for Americans has landed it on editorial pages from Forbes to GQ. Here at Nomad Capitalist, we believe everywhere has a right to “go where you’re treated...