Given the prevalence of people on this forum who are working remote jobs, I figure there's a good number of "digital nomads" here. What's your story? Where are you now? How do you handle taxes and what do you do if you work for a U.S. employer and need to keep a U.S. address?
I'm on Penang, Malaysia right now. Sort of stumbled into the digital nomad lifestyle: was living in Berlin and decided it wasn't going to be a good place to be during a pandemic, so I flew to Singapore back in March '20 and just kept going since then.
Nomad tax setups vary, there's no one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on your citizenship(s), residency/ies when you started nomading, income, location and type of employer/clients, and where you want to spend time.
I find that it is fairly common for companies to pay you as a contractor if you want to leave the US. This simplifies things for both parties in most cases (assuming the company doesn't have an established office in the location that you will be working). You likely won't need a US address when this is the case.<p>Regarding taxes, you will likely need to a hire a tax professional in the area that you are working from. If you are a US or Eritrean citizen / permanent resident you should also hire a tax professional from the US / Eritrea in order to handle their citizenship based taxation.
> What's your story?<p>I went to Asia to visit a friend from university. The weather and living conditions were excellent, so I decided to stay 6 months. I was already working remotely before.<p>> what do you do if you work for a U.S. employer?<p>I say up a small company that I use for billing my employer so that they don't have to care about my current/changing address.
I wanted to ask a general question about how you decide where to pay taxes? Like are you paying income taxes in every city you reside in over certain number of days?
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US resident here. My employer pays for Tailscale, so I can access company-specific services like 1Password without having to log in with weird IPs. I'm currently in Seoul and was using a coffeeshop's wifi hotspot. This may answer part of your 'how do you do it?' question.
You can be a digital nomad within the U.S. Just travel around, work in interesting cities, move along when you're feeling it.<p>There's some rumblings about hotel chains or housing networks that will let you stay among their various properties, but I haven't checked into it.