Zero percent Bitcoin taxes? That’s right. International Bitcoin companies -and their owners- can operate in a way they do not pay taxes. Yet nobody seems to understand this. Down below we will first discuss a few fundamentals of taxation. Then we will look at two small case studies and discuss some downsides. Important: [...]
A little while ago I got a nasty surprise. I had bought a digital product online. Some expensive training course. I had to pay an EXTRA 19% Value Added Tax (VAT - EU VAT Digital Products) to the German government. Scheisse! But why? Well, there are new VAT rules in de EU since January [...]
I have left Cebu and the Philippines after 5 months. I moved to Bali. Here you will get the pro's and con's about living in the Philippines as a digital nomad. It has very good things to offer to digital nomads. As you will see. But first let me tell you why I chose [...]
Ok, with this message I want to tell you about a GREAT charity: "Volunteer in Cebu" and honour a warm and gentle person that unfortunately left this world in a "heroes death" on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia. But first this: Last month in Cebu I joined what is called a "feeding". A feeding is [...]
When you read this I am actually surfing (ok, learning how to). ...the wonders of automation... But that is NOT what I want to talk about with you today. The topic at hand is how banks are carving my heart out and serve it on a silver platter during "Wolf of Wall Street" style [...]
Let me walk you through a few examples on how to look opportunities for doing business in the Philippines as a "traveller" (and how not to). Example One - Restaurant Sauerkraut: I always work in an internet cafe. It is in a street with a lot of bars. The area is popular. Across the street [...]
Did you notice anything strange? Of course not. But I have been "of the grid" for 10 days. Not as if there is no internet here in the Philippines. There is mobile internet everywhere. Except in the most remote of islands. And it is exactly where I dived head first on a rock. Arguably the [...]
When I am writing this I am sitting in an internet cafe. Behind me there is a tourist girl comparing her love life to the 50 shades. Outside on the terrace there is a family completely dressed up after church. They all look pretty. Last week I sat down with a Filipino lawyer. As you [...]
Let me tell you about the very exotic road trip I went on. It started when we left Cebu at 5 AM. In a southbound bus. To Oslob. In Oslob there is a feeding ground for whale sharks. (this means that they are being fed by "marine biologists") So you have about 100% change [...]
Updated September 2019 with info from my new book. As international entrepreneur you can reduce taxes to zero %. That's right. This can be achieved by anybody, yet nobody seems to understand this (anybody but US citizens, because the United States taxes based on citizenship - but serious savings are possible). In any case, it is about [...]
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