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.
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
Miriam Partington and Tim Smith
4 min read
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