Interview

November 14, 2022

How digital nomads avoid paying taxes

One founder says he’s helped many nomads reduce their tax bill to zero — as a way of giving access to rules the superrich follow


Bogdan Danchuk in Madeira

Many of us, chained to our desks, have watched with envy as the Instagram-tinted digital nomad lifestyle has boomed with the rise of remote work.  Now there's one more reason to feel FOMO: increasingly, digital nomads are finding ways to pay little to no tax as they hotfoot it around the world.

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