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Re:Ask HN: Canada Departure Tax on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:44PM (#27691413)

Any suggestions of a good accountant/tax person familiar with the nuances?

Ask HN: Canada Departure Tax

Posted by leosantos on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm considering remotely taking up a job at a startup while based in Canada - and as part of the compensation I'll receive some equity.I'm also considering relocating to where the startup is based in the US in 6 months - 1 year.However, Canada has a departure tax, and I'm wondering if I would need to pay capital gains tax on the FMV of the equity that was granted to me while I was based in...

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Private Equity firm is acquiring a lot of currency conversion APIs

Posted by leosantos on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:00AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm working on a side project that needed a currency conversion API, and I'd originally started using https://exchangeratesapi.io/ which until a few days ago was a free API - https://web.archive.org/web/20210328014153/https://exchangeratesapi.io/As of today, it is now a paid API, and says it's operated by apilayer (which was recently acquired by a private equity firm).It seems like they've...

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Re:Developing Our First iOS App with React Native on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:01PM (#11183777)

On a more technical note - I'm exploring React Native (having significant experience shipping native iOS Apps) and while on the face of it React Native looks amazing, as I go deeper into building something production quality, I've hit roadblocks with doing simple (natively) things like scrolling a scroll view to focus on a text field that's partially visible and changing the offsets of a scroll view to prevent the keyboard from masking the focused text field in a way that doesn't appear glitchy.

Did you encounter any such problems?

Re:Stripe Atlas on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @01:18PM (#11168882)

Nice next step would be expanding it to Estonia (https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/)

FYI Braintree allows businesses based in estonia to accept payments.