Recent content by Nyep

What's with the disappearing threads, btw? There were several interesting REAL discussions re Erabanq, Satchelpay, etc. which are now completely gone. What's the point of having this forum if threads that providers don't like can just disappear like this (for a bit of cash/threats presumably)...

Don't get your panties in a twist, Betty. It was a general comment, unrelated to your quest of finding a non-UK citizens pwned by HMRC. Not everything has to be about you, even if you are OP.

This one is pretty nuts: 28 months for £57K! That's a month in prison for every ~£2K evaded.

Interactive Brokers accepts deposits from TW in EUR and GBP. USD not currently accepted because the originating account shows TW instead of <your name>. If/when they'll fix this issue with USD, IB will start accepting USD from TW as well.

If you want to be serious and in full control of your finances, you should read about F.I.R.E, where you will learn how to invest your money wisely and live off of your portfolio while maintaining or increasing your net worth. Start with ERN and/or MMM. Check out the Financial Independence...

Yes, this is called an Income Annuity. There are fixed income annuities, inflation-adjusted annuities, etc. with plenty of options on the guaranteed sum returned. I don't know about options in the EU, but there are plenty of options in the US. They are very real and usually very safe (just make...

Tax residency is usually a function of time spent in country. In Thailand you're a tax resident if you spend 180 days or more in the country in the tax year. Now, you may not have any actual tax to pay, and Thailand may not actively come after you to make sure you're paying, but according to the...

Elite is generally not worth it. If you don't qualify for a non-O based on retirement/marriage then your best bet is the education visa. There are plenty of schools that take care of visa hassles, and in some of the more well connected ones you don't even have to show up to school. If you're in...

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Just open an account with Interactive Brokers for the company. If you really hold cash in USD then you will make around 1.9% interest simply by holding your idle cash there and doing nothing. You can make slightly more by placing the cash in relatively safe short maturity bond indexes like NEAR...

Leopay lost their USD capability back when they were still called Leupay and operating via Satabank. They used to say that it's "temporarily unavailable", and a while ago they cleverly decided to drop "temporarily" out of the sentence, when it was clear that no banking partner will ever let them...

You can avoid the conversion if you got one of the free debit cards from Leopay denominated in USD. In that case you can "load" that money to your Transferwise Borderless account via the debit card and "only" pay 0.75% instead of 2%+fees.

Essentially true, but note that you still need to report to the IRS via forms 5472 and 1120, even if you pay no tax.

Like I said repeatedly (you're welcome to check my forum history and see that I've attempted to defend ALL service providers that got banned or near-banned), in my humble opinion, this policy is bad for the forum and only good for admin's pocket. Members can easily make informed decisions about...

Because he did. You must have not had a chance to see it before it was deleted. @Bmw850 saw it too, if you need confirmation.