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Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by scotty79 on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:31PM (#1138016)
Can you as us citizen register company in Canada and provide your services in US? Is there anything against it? Import tax on services?
Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by cperciva on Friday February 19, 2010 @06:58PM (#1138290)
You can do that, but it won't help. My understanding (as a non-US tax expert) is that if you're providing a service in the US you have to pay taxes in the US -- at least, last time I did consulting for a US company I had to fill out paperwork confirming that I was Canadian and doing all of the work from Canada in order to avoid all sorts of US tax paperwork.
Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by bjelkeman-again on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:43PM (#1138046)
There are similar rules to the US rules in the UK, but what we do instead is that we hire people cross border in the EU as there is no real coordination on these things between the countries. If there was they would open up a can of worms around where the tax money goes and who gets what for the services.

In fact the only sensible way to work for a Dutch company whilst living in Sweden is to have your own company or be a sole trader, even if you work 100% for the same company in the Netherlands and invoice only them.

Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by pantsd on Saturday February 20, 2010 @06:20PM (#1139699)
I am not a lawyer, or an accountant, or anything like that. My understanding is that for federal Canadian corporations a certain percentage (I think 25%) must be Canadian residents.Before doing anything like registering a company in another country it would be advisable to consult an accountant.