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Generally, what you are looking for is to be tax resident of a country that has a Double Taxation Agreement with the country you are trying to escape. The treaty will mean that you can only be tax resident in one of the two countries at a time, and the purpose of the tax residency in low tax...

Georgia will disallow time outside the country if it's for business, leisure, or health treatment. I don't know how you're supposed to evidence that, or how flexible they are with it.

Do you need the US LLC? You could be a freelancer in UAE (admittedly you'd still need to pay small taxes), or an Individual Entrepreneur in Georgia with 1% taxes (if you meet the criteria). Wouldn't work if the US LLC is doing something material in US, but then the P/E rules wouldn't be a...

> It is still working well. Why would you consider it? Fees are high for SWIFT. Wine, beautiful women, the food. All the usual heart attack risk factors :) > And check this Interesting. I wonder where @permabear found their correspondent banks.

What is the current state of international banking in Georgia in 2025? It appeals as a base, but I would need to be able to get paid from abroad (mostly boring countries) and occasionally pay people.

Wouldn't that be insurrection if it was the other way around?

Portuguese Social Security is capped for self employed https://www.reddit.com/r/PortugalExpats/comments/177lg0n/cap_on_social_security_for_highearning_freelancers

> you pay a certain amount of taxes, and they become clean. That seems... potentially problematic :oops:

I've known people in Spain to simply save in cash out of fear the tax authorities will debit their bank accounts. Not that they mind paying what they owe, they just don't want to go bankrupt if someone gets greedy.

Ultimately, if you are receiving money in Dubai, or any country, from somewhere else, you might need to explain where its been generated, because otherwise the assumption they'll be allowed to make is that it's being generated wherever you are. I suspect the UAE is less easily curious than most...

I mean, we in the West might look on that as primitive because we want all sorts of legal arrangements tying us together. And then, you open The Telegraph geriatric money guide, and the first thing it will say is to get a Power of Attorney (potentially near limitless access to your assets)...

Probably Horizon 2020 (now Horizon Europe) funding *sigh*

Tether is looking better by the day. Was never expecting to write those words! o_O

So UAE banks freak on direct deposits from crypto exchanges, but are happy with banker's cheques from OTC?

If he wasn't going to sign he shouldn't have come, he could just have done an open letter in the NYT about how he'd like to have more cooperation, but this didn't suit Ukraine in its current form. If he was going to sign, he should have been prepared to suck up a bit. Open with gratitude. And...

I wonder if they'll be an American Values Visa :)

I wonder if that means I have to delete or add anti-Trump posts at this point. Feels weird, will not renew.

Really? I had one years ago, and all they cared about was who I was.

I think Russia is hamstrung by its own internal politics, everything is sucked into Moscow and the periphery is perpetually under developed. There's a core that provides "security", e.g. runs the military industrial complex and mans the internal security apparatus. And the rest who ship out...

Dubai has a few co-living space. That might be good option. Shouldn't be too expensive, will come with paperwork, and might make some new friends while you're in town! https://www.artof.co/blog/best-coliving-spaces-in-dubai