Freelancers in High-Tax Europe: Move the Company, or Move Yourself?
Moving the company does nothing on its own. Moving your own tax residence works, and Italy, Spain and Germany each have a rule designed to follow you out.
Moving the company does nothing on its own. Moving your own tax residence works, and Italy, Spain and Germany each have a rule designed to follow you out.
Georgia’s 1% on turnover is real, but it isn’t a rate on remote income earned from anywhere. Four conditions decide whether your money qualifies.
E-Residency isn’t a tax play or a “digital nation” experiment. For most people who go through with it, it’s a €1,200-2,600 first year to get an EU company Stripe accepts, nothing more mystical than that.
Forming a company somewhere else doesn’t move your tax bill if you’re the one still running it from where you live. Here are the two tests that actually decide it, the founder who found out the hard way, and the 2025 court ruling that turns on the same underlying idea.
Estonia OÜ, Hong Kong Ltd or a US LLC, paired with a Thailand DTV visa: these are the combos nomad freelancers keep building. The company you pick barely moves the needle next to one number: how many days you spend in Thailand.
Forming a US LLC costs less than most guides admit. Getting Stripe to say yes, paying yourself without payroll and staying out of the IRS’s $25,000 penalty zone is where the real setup happens.
The 3 questions that decide your company, bank and payment stack, before you ever pick a country. A freelancer’s honest guide to LLCs, OÜs, MoRs and ad-spend cards.
BitPay, Coinbase, NOWPayments, Stripe and more, compared on real fees and settlement, plus why recurring crypto billing still mostly doesn’t work.
Amazon holds FBA money two very different ways: a routine 7-day reserve and a Section 3 deactivation hold. Here’s what’s actually documented, and how to get paid.
Most neobank freezes are not random. They follow five or six specific transaction patterns. Here is what actually trips the flag, and how to move money without tripping it.