Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Nomad Capitalist" channel.

  1. Antigua & Barbuda would be great (you only have to spend 5 days (spend a week in Antigua and a week in Barbuda)) in the first 5yrs of citizenship otherwise you won't be able to renew the passport. Swap its position with Vanuatu as Vanuatu is subject to EU Blacklist tax withholding. Don't bother with New Zealand, they're worse than Australia and about the same as Canada on '2020 thing' restrictions and insanity. Plus New Zealand have very high taxes and heaps of levies (taxes under a different name).
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  2. Australia is desperate for money, the spend like its going out of fashion and instead of encouraging industry and exports, their answer to running out of money is to borrow more and to increase taxes. The Australian govt are like addicted gamblers losing every last cent.
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  3. Unless its something that is legally forcing you to stay (i.e. licence audit, tax audit, jury duty, etc.), quit making excuses and get out. There's affordable options (usually residence permits). If you own a house, consider selling it to fund getting out. Stop making excuses and get out - if you keep making excuses, you never will. Sure it might feel scary but why stay and lose everything!
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  4. I'm trying to leave Australiastan as soon as possible so I can live somewhere I can work and thrive and where taxes are ideally 0% PIT so I can use crypto and not lose it all to the ATO as 'taxes'. Sadly the place is making it harder to leave - basically ALL 'assets' are subject to unrealized gains so you have to liquidate everything, pay the insane taxes, then pay the taxes on the money you take out of the country - leaving you with very little to survive on abroad. 'Assets' also now includes things that have never otherwise been 'assets' such as boats, planes, RV's, etc. (things that are normally considered liabilities / expenses) which are now being reported by insurance companies to the ATO if valued over $60k (approx. - I don't remember the exact amount) so they can do "Lifestyle Data Matching" and so they can interrogate you on where and how you got it (even though they already know due to their huge data mining), and demand unrealized gains tax if you leave. Oh, and that's assuming they let you leave, many people are being hit with regular jury duty to keep them stuck in the country and with licence related issues (incl. audits) to keep them stuck in the country. Combine that with the near infinite elections (at least 1 every year) and you can't change your electoral roll details (i.e. leave the country and get removed) because they freeze the rolls for elections, and they also freeze your individual entry whilst subject to jury duty. Australiastan is broke, thinks that all your hard earned money belongs to them, intentionally stops you investing and benefiting (the taxes make it not worthwhile) and then goes out of its way to stop you leaving after having regulated many of us out of work with insane BS professional registration schemes that are designed to force locals out of work (due to unworkable CPD and experience requirements) but makes the world of exceptions for 'skilled migrant workers'.
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  5.  @wuerges  Sorry but you're actually wrong, what I've stated is the truth as backed up by law - ask any lawyer, border guard or anyone working in federal law enforcement. If you are a citizen of a country you must enter and exit it on that passport - that is literally law in all but two countries in the world. If you enter a country on one passport and exit on another, you will have legally overstayed or failed to legally exit as you haven't "checked out". Your passports aren't linked. Just because you may not like what I said, doesn't make it wrong. Doing what you said is literally committing a crime that carries a long jail sentence.
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  6. Look at the countries in Schengen and those likely to join. Croatia only recently joined. An EU passport from within Schengen is the most valuable passport in the world as it give the greatest real freedom (work, live, etc.) in the most countries. Don't be clouded by "visa-free" - that's for tourism only. After an EU passport the next best would be an OECS passport from one of the original 7 founding OECS countries (these countries are also in CARICOM), followed by a UK, AU, or NZ passport. After that its purely whatever else you want. If in doubt, get as many as you can. Also note that an EU passport from within Schengen opens even more doors (though there are some hoops to jump through) as providing you're willing to jump a few hoops one can get approved to live in parts of the former French Empire. That means you can live in parts of Oceania that are part of France and in parts of the French Caribbean.
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  7. Also Australiastan...
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  8. As someone who's moved a lot, when the rental is over, having to move everything is painful. If you can simply have a place or two and can afford to do so, why not. Most people who spend 3+ months at a time in a location will accumulate books, pots, pans, etc. why have to pack and move, ship that stuff everywhere. Everytime that stuff crosses borders that export duty and import duty. In most of Europe an apartment is only around $120,000-$180,000 which is nothing compared to the price of a house in Australia or New Zealand ($1 million+)
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  9. @sammya1970 Yet every other religion is allowed to take off ever religious holiday without anyone complaining. Quit trying to hide your personal anti-semitism.
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  10. In the place you're legally tax resident and where your centre of life is. Simple! Like with everything, that's why if you want to live flag theory you have to: 1. Establish tax residency in a 0% PIT country - you have to move your centre of life there and have a home that you return to 2. LEGALLY leave the high tax, tax system that you were in, thus leaving you only in the tax system you entered in point 1 3. Get a bank account in the 0% PIT country, live there for 8+ months and get a local tax file number. 0% PIT countries still issue tax file numbers so you can fill in the space on forms and as part of proving that you're legally tax resident there, even though PIT is 0% 4. Once you've achieved all of that LEGALLY, now you can look at holidaying to several places for a month or two at a time (be careful to not become tax resident due to physical presence in those places), returning to the 0% PIT country you live in after each trip. 5. Congrats you're living the modern LEGAL version of flag theory Its no longer possible to be perpetually traveling and tax resident nowhere, countries will declare you tax resident automatically unless you have LEGAL tax residency somewhere. This is literally a case of "you have to know how to play their game and beat them at their own game whilst complying with all the rules they made". Its intentionally hard because the high-tax countries are desperate for taxes because they're broke welfare states that care more about being dystopian, all encompassing and because they let themselves become welfare states. Remember, when the largest employer in a country is the government, the only outcome is always going to be larger, more bloated government and thus more over regulation (nanny state) and the only way to fund that is higher taxes. Becoming welfare states lets the govt exert more control over the people as they need the money to survive, it also makes it easier to justify increasing taxes "you don't want the poor to starve do you?".
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  11.  @garrettmgunderson  The problem is purchasing results in the seller reporting the sale and who they sold it to. Thus they don't even need to do data matching, they already have it all in full detail. Thus you're screwed regardless.
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  12. Sorry but that's just not true. Sailing SV Delos, Sailing Zatara and Sailing La Vagabonde are all proof that you can still educate your children without needing to settle in. The best part is by being nomadic, they have friends around the world and because those friendships are traditional friendships, they last. Now that there is Starlink for yachts/cruisers, not just stationary and RV's, its never been easier to maintain a proper education whilst being nomadic.
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  13. To a certain extent its possible if you're a person of modest means however its gonna be a lot harder, unless you're a multinational from birth (2-3+ citizenship's from birth - ideally one of those would be an OECS or EU (Schengen) country). You'll have a harder time getting visas and establishing residence, you'll need to also afford to rent (1yr +) or buy a home and prove that you have enough left over and/or consistent income to support yourself. The six figure+ clients that get mentioned have things much easier as they can easily buy or rent property, they can easily prove their ability to support themselves and can easily show large income; more importantly, they can easily afford to do CBI which will always be easier than residence/visas. Speaking conservatively, it'll cost $300,000-$550,000 for most people to completely move abroad and support themselves for a year - yes this is assuming a residence is purchased (usually a requirement for residence - not everywhere permits 1yr + rental contracts) and one's possessions are shipped. All shipped possessions have import duty that will have to be paid on them unless you're moving to a handful of countries that permit citizens to return with all their possessions once in their lifetime without having to pay import duty on those possessions (Poland, Hungary; there's two others but I can't remember which two others). This is why some people get a secondhand catamaran and live aboard, such vessels can be found for $300,000; just make sure you're into sailing and know how to sail if you want to live aboard a boat.
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  14. And in reality when they say rich they mean 'middle class' because we're easier to go after than the rich who're already long gone to greener pastures.
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  15. Its not being discussed - its already law! Also currently illegal to leave Australia, those who leave through the NZ bubble will receive 5yrs jail and/or a $63,000 fine. Australia, the new North Korea - so good you can't leave or enter! Australia is a failed state and commie dictatorship where absolutely no human rights exist due to the State of Emergency Powers which automatically suspend all human rights during the State of Emergency
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  16. Since the CCP have taken over Hong Kong and brought in their insane "National Security Law" which they claim applies in all countries of the world (sorry, China's authority ends at their border), why would anyone want to risk getting in "trouble" because you rejected a business deal and then get taken away under their "National Security Law" because you're in Hong Kong. Growing up, I was there a lot whilst my father attended medical conferences, it was wonderful under British Control, Victoria Peak, Ocean Park, the Ferry, Tsim Sha Tsu was always great and really came to life at night. Sadly Hong Kong is too much of a risk due to CCP control, their insane "National Security Law" and the fact that nothing is certain as they can't even honour their own word of when they'd impose their will on Hong Kong (was not supposed to be until 2047)...
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  17. @mutantryeff Sorry but you failed geography - the USA is a union of States who surrendered all of their sovereignty to the US Federal Govt. I.e. they have zero say on visas and citizenship. The EU is a union of Sovereign Nations (i.e. countries) who are each fully in control of their respective countries and thus citizenships. The EU doesn't provide passports to anyone as the EU is not a government. Each country in the EU issues passports to its citizens. The EU's Schengen Zone is the subgroup of countries in the EU who have agreed to free movement and to have one common market (i.e. the Common Market Area) - you pay taxes based on which EU country you live in (even within Schengen). Outside of Schengen there's different rules for living - if someone with an EU passport from Schengen wants to live in a non-Schengen EU country, they have to apply for permission to reside, they can't just register residence like they can within Schengen.
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  18.  @Maree2505  Just look up Professional Engineering Registration - each State and Territory is bringing it in. Whilst the registration isn't the end of the world, the requirements to be permitted to register are not inline with the industry nor are they possible for 99% to comply with. The CPD (continuing professional development) requirements are still a big secret but you have to have completed them - the few bits of leaked info mention that its mostly management, accounting and climate categories that form a huge part of the required hours and for CPD to count, it can't be part of your normal day-to-day responsibilities/job but it must be related to your job. This is literally impossible as for those who've already done the courses and who work in small businesses or as consultants, its suddenly part of your day-to-day responsibilities/job and thus doesn't count. Then there's the experience requirements - 3 jobs and 3 different levels across 3 different companies in the 10yrs prior to applying for registration. This is literally not possible as that's not how the industry works, but politicians know better (ha ha). As for the not being allowed to do research - just look at all major university course websites, they detail that all research projects and research that's not PhD must be a rehashing of existing knowledge.
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  19.  @jeremyleonbarlow  Whilst I encourage everyone to not break the law, there will always be ways to hide money. Consider the following: Art, bullion, luxury homes, land, luxury vehicles and boats. These are all ways of hiding money as they can be owned through living trusts, shell companies, etc. The most corrupt industry in the world which is also responsible for the most money laundering in the world is the Art industry. If you're wondering why art, its because the value of art is subjective. To me it might be worthless but to Joe Bloggs to the right of me, it might be worth billions. Bullion is the next most common option as its a tangible that can be purchased without registration and taken wherever the owner wants it. As for why hiding money or assets is critical - privacy and safety. Public knowledge of who has what money and assets simply puts the individual in danger or kidnap and ransom or extortion. Not having privacy makes people targets. If you're not a US citizen, there are plenty of ways to legally have privacy however it will involve lawyers and govt's vouching that they know the legal owner but are not making it public for the safety of the individual and through the use of complex legal structures. Live full-time in a tax haven and its easy, live anywhere else and you're basically screwed.
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  20.  @herbigp  You couldn't leave either, even if you wanted to leave permanently, even if the other end would let you in and stay forever - unless you were over 50 and thus deemed useless by the govt, then you could leave without issue.
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  21. Nope - you never present more than one passport - that's literally asking for trouble. You only ever present one passport. Present the passport that gives you the most rights but keep in mind that if you're a citizen of a country, you must use their passport to enter and exit their country. So if you have an AU and an EU (Schegen Zone) passport and you leave Australia to the EU's Schengen Zone it goes as follows: 1. Leave AU on AU passport 2. Enter EU (Schengen Zone) on EU (Schengen Zone) passport to return simply do the above process in reverse - leave EU on EU passport and enter AU on AU passport.
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  22. Countries can do whatever they like. You don't 'own' your citizenship in most countries, its the country that decided who's a citizen and who isn't. They generally reserve the right to grant and to revoke citizenship at their discretion. Only some countries who suffered communism behind the Iron Curtain, such as Poland have their constitution written so that the govt can NEVER revoke citizenship once granted unless you ask to renounce - hence why such countries are very strict and rarely grant citizenship to people who aren't ethnically from such countries. The reason such protections exist is the communists forcibly stripped many citizens of their citizenship and exiled them as stateless people during the Cold War (they were the lucky ones who could "buy their lives and exile" and the ones who left the few times the border was open to leave during the Cold War), the unlucky ones faced deportation to Siberia (the GULAG system) to do hard labour and the most unlucky were summarily executed by the NKWD. Countries can declare anyone to be their citizen even without the consent of the individual concerned. Some countries do so to make extraditing someone easier as its harder for countries to refuse to extradite a citizen of the country requesting. Countries can also refuse to let you renounce - its always at their discretion. Basically they can take their countries nationality from you unless you renounce all others you hold.
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  23. Simply having super shouldn't make you tax resident, don't have it invested, let it stagnate and slowly drain away courtesy of fees. Also, don't pay into it if you're not living in Australia. Unless you qualify to access your super I don't think there's any way to move it out of Australia as even NZ won't let you withdraw it.
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  24.  @sammya1970  It is when every muslim can take off all their religious holidays and when every Indian can take off every religious holiday as can every African. That's how it currently is - only jews and "whites" can't take off every religious holiday whilst everyone else can. As an employer, unless you're in the USA, you don't have the legal right to refuse religious holiday leave, but just like with racism towards "whites", the govt just let it happen to both jews and "whites" to be seen as "inclusive and tolerant".
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  25. You're assuming that France will let them. Renouncing is ALWAYS at the discretion of the country concerned - they don't have to let you. Disturbingly ANY country can declare ANYONE to be a citizen - if they try what's mentioned in the video, I wouldn't be surprised if they refuse to let people renounce and I wouldn't be surprised if they start making people citizens at random just to demand taxes.
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  26. Well those countries could fix that by stopping immigration and getting everything sorted internally and only then opening immigration. Australia creates its own welfare mess with its immigration and high taxes (literally hurts itself by trying to help everyone). Either way, still doesn't justify Australian passports costing basically $500 for a weak travel document (since 2020 its lost access to many countries, and, only gained 15 days visa-free to China (just like many EU passports)).
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  27. You need to be high 7-8 figures - boutique services NEVER come cheap, especially when they're good. Most boutique services are around $25,000 per appointment with other fees for each thing they need to do and other costs. That's why they always introduce themselves as being for '7-8 figure entrepreneurs'.
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  28.  @nh5317  just go through the ABF and AEC data for the last few years and you'll see the discrepancy. It's about 6.5% as the national population is about 28 million
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  29.  @advex4428  And in the current millennia those countries genuinely need to revisit those laws as no normal person would consider 'upsetting someone', 'offending someone online' or 'sharing a meme that offended someone' to be a crime. The problem is the laws were created when crime meant actual crime, the English speaking world has now made basically everything into a crime.
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  30.  @RC94332  Doing it via the 1965 treaty is likely the better option as the old Italian Empire is much more favoured in Panama than the USA is, geopolitically speaking. The USA is seen in most of the world as a bully. Getting residency via the treaty using Italian Citizenship by Descent (not by naturalization) will likely give a chance at naturalizing as Panamanian - whilst it would be difficult and involve bureaucracy stuffing you around, its more likely to be possible. Trying to become Panamanian through the FNV is basically impossible as there's always an excuse as to why you can't be naturalized - commonly "not sufficiently integrated", or they just "lose" your paperwork and make you infinitely start again.
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  31. Electricians and mechanics wouldn't qualify. Those aren't the professions being wanted. El Salvador only wants very highly skilled professionals as they're trying to build the country to be the next "place to be" and the leader in advanced technology. Honestly - the USA and EU can get stuffed - the more people (and countries) say "whatever" and "mind your own business", the better. The Caribbean CBI programs have some stupid idea that if they keep doing what the USA and EU demand, that they'll be able to keep their CBI programs - the USA and EU won't stop demanding the world until those programs end. Basically the USA and EU don't want their citizens to have any options to go anywhere else as they want to take all their wealth through taxation to try to cover up the financial disaster the govts have caused. The smart people are leaving now. El Salvador is doing well to ignore the USA and EU. BTC is a real currency as a result - now its up to people to demand their countries quit taxing it as crypto and that it gets taxed as currency (i.e. normally).
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  32. Rubbish - in Vanuatu, ALL land is leased from the govt. No one can own land whether born there or not!
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  33.  @TheAwesomeTolga198  *any western government - primarily CANZUK and CUNA. There are very few other countries that are actively trying to stop people from leaving. There are several countries that literally guarantee freedom of entry and exit to their citizens in their constitutions.
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  34.  @mjor6406  Thankfully I'm not a US citizen but my point stands - why should a country be permitted to tax its citizens who benefit nothing from them? Why should a person have to renounce citizenship to leave a tax system? Why do you think its right for a country (the US) to tax its citizens abroad when they benefit nothing from the US?
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  35. If you do business in Oceania its a perfect passport to have as it allows you to transit Australia without a visa - only AU & NZ passports can negate the need for this.
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  36. Because people don't want to have to waste time and money filing taxes and forms to a place they no longer live. Even below the threshold, the reporting of assets and filing of taxes is still mandatory, not to mention that many countries won't give a US citizen a bank account as they don't want the headache that causes them. Also depending on what you do, ITAR will prohibit US citizens from doing many things abroad and also prohibit you from selling those things outside the USA, even though people from the rest of the world are free to do so in many cases. ITAR is board and all encompassing - it covers many things that most people wouldn't even think it covers.
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  37. Just use the following rule and you'll always be fine: If you are entering or exiting a country for which you have a passport (issued by that country) you must use it. You can't be a tourist (at the border) of a country you are a citizen of. Here's an example for a person with a passport from both a CUNA and EU (within Schengen Zone) country: To Exit CUNA Country: Use CUNA passport To Enter Europe (within Schengen Zone): Use EU (Schengen) passport To Leave Europe (within Schengen Zone): Use EU (Schengen) passport To Enter CUNA Country: Use CUNA passport If however you're traveling to a country to which you're not a citizen of (and don't have freedom of movement such as Schengen), then use the passport that gives you the most freedom - some countries get more visa-free tourism time than others. Remember its always better to be visa-free as a tourist than visa-on-arrival as they don't have to grant a visa-on-arrival.
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  38. Travelling visa-free and being equipped is something that most agencies have sorted ahead of time. Hollywood never shows things in detail and always over-simplifies everything. Without going into detail, in the real world it'd be more like: * Source pre-arranges travel (either legal entry or illegal entry (i.e. sneaking in)) * Travel * Asset goes to in-country safe house to get equipped with documents, money, firearm, phone with contacts, etc. * Does whatever is needed * Returns everything to another safe house * Leaves similarly to how they entered the country Driving without a licence whilst illegal isn't as hard as it seems. Most people don't get licence checked and who's to say they don't have an International Driver Permit? Also, in most countries you only need to carry a National ID card, as long as you're only driving a car or riding a motorbike you usually have 24hrs in which to present your licence at a police station to prove you're licenced. Also the new type National ID cards in the EU have a chip which links it to all your licences so its able to be checked on the spot. How many people who work don't actually have licences? Also, most agencies have people inside the appropriate offices to be able to issue licences as required. As for knowing the area well, its simple. Get a paper map and study the area, remember things by key landmarks and by turns. Names overly complicate the process of memorising regions. Plus I would guarantee they've spent 2 days driving around to get to know the area - yet again Hollywood leaves this out. As has been public knowledge for over 50yrs thanks to books written by former spies and even from the early Bond books by Ian Fleming, the best agents/spies are the ones who have perfectly clean records, from countries with strong passports and who don't attract attention from others (they look ordinary).
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  39. Literally no one cares. Its an image in a video, not a map. If he drew an inverted triangle you'd say the same bullshit.
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  40. Part of the problem for those trying to leave high tax countries but who aren't rich is that those high tax countries will basically only let you leave the system by going to another high tax country. Take Australia as an example, if you move to France where the taxes are higher, then Australia will let you leave the tax system. If you moved to Georgia where the taxes are lower, the ATO would force you to pay the difference in tax rates to them as they'd claim you're only temporarily overseas because they claim you're trying to exploit tax rates and not actually leaving Australia (due to their automatic belief that you 'intend to return'). That's how desperate for tax revenue Australia is and how insane they are because they think that high taxes and taking from those who earn well is 'normal and right'. I find that attitude that Australia has to be sickening and disgusting as I believe that you should be allowed to keep what you earn and that wealth shouldn't be taxed (wealth taxes coming very soon to Australia). Given that most DTA's Australia had are now gone, the only option is to go to a higher tax country to get out of the system, then spend 3-5yrs in that even higher tax country (to avoid being pulled automatically back into the Australian system, and to be considered properly in the higher tax country's system), then leave its system and finally move to where you can thrive. Due to the double move it becomes financially impossible for most - this is why its the rich and retired who can leave Australia, not the young who are wanting to get businesses going and succeed. Canada isn't much different.
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  41. Nope - you're confusing the two programs. Currently the one million in BTC donation program is for the rich (i.e. the current program), the video is primarily about the new program where 5000 "professionals" (engineers, scientists, doctors, artists, philosophers, etc.) will be able to move there full time to help the country grow in return for free citizenship and zero import taxes on everything they bring with them when moving there.
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  42.  @kspradeep8397  There is zero room to reform New Zealand - they're commies and hardcore fascist lefties on all sides of politics. As for being non-resident, if you enter and leave most countries in less than 2 to 3 months but already have tax residency in another country you won't need to file that you're a non-resident. You only have to register being resident if you stay for three months or longer (some exceptions apply as some countries say you're taxable at 45 days unless you're a tourist). The point of having citizenship in a tax haven in the Caribbean is that you have continuously lived there for the bulk of a year (and you own a house or apartment) to set your tax residency there so that you'll get a tax file number and tax residency certificate so you can leave the tax system you're trying to get out of and remain out of. Once out, you keep your centre of life based there but holiday to other places staying only a couple of months at most (of whatever limit is required) so you don't become resident. Your passport portfolio lets you travel & work remotely whilst traveling without getting into trouble like a tourist working without a visa would. From the tax haven your centre of life is in you setup legal structures to legally control businesses in other countries so that whilst those businesses pay taxes, you yourself don't fall into the tax nets of those countries.
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  43.  @tux407  As an Australian, it's not worth it for being geographically remote. There are better locations such as the Caribbean, parts of South America or SE Asia. Australia has stupidly high taxes (they're still increasing), houses are completely unaffordable for the average person thanks to the govt letting foreign corporations and investors overpay. Most average houses are $1 million+, units can be $500,000-800,000 depending on location. The "huge number of millionaires" comes from the fact that the population is mostly older people who owned houses from before prices went insane and thus now have houses worth millions if they sold tomorrow, Australia looks at wealth for statistical purposes based on "if you liquidated everything tomorrow". The only place you'll find houses that are affordable is in the countryside - well out of town where there aren't any jobs. Cars are essential to get around, delivery of purchases is stupidly expensive. The health system is actually falling apart here because most politicians haven't bothered to do anything to improve it since the 90's, only construction projects get priority. Eating out is not really an option given that a burger with chips and a soft drink from a "non-fastfood" place is basically $30 - $35 per person. If you're very rich this obviously isn't a problem. Oh and there are mandatory qualifications and permits and licences for literally everything in Australia so if you're looking for a good business environment, you're not gonna find it in Australia. At the end of the day, that's just the opinion of an Aussie who's heading overseas to go "where [I'm] treated best" as Andrew says. Your mileage may vary. Just remember, just because a place is nice to visit as a tourist, doesn't mean its the same when you're living there day-to-day. If you still think its where you want to be, try it, see how it suits you.
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  44.  @namewithheldforprivacy7107  Two of those three have PIT. One of them just introduced it because the OECD, WEF, BIS & US told them to. Just saying...
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  45.  @Maree2505  Yep, business and arts degrees are a joke in Australia, very easy and very little relevant stuff taught.
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  46. If anyone is considering spending approx. $200k they should honestly just go for a 0% PIT country because why not? If you're willing and able to spend that kind of money, why not fully tax optimize? You get a lot more options when you don't have to pay any PIT!
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  47. Cyprus won't be much of anything until Turkey get the hell out of there. Turkey invaded and ruined the place, their insistence of it being theirs is why huge areas are permanently locked off, why families can't take their possessions that are in the DMZ as they were forced out over night. I think that the EU should require Turkey to leave Cyprus as a condition of admission to the EU.
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  48. In many cases they're not doing it out of choice, they're doing it out of it being their only option due to easier migration pathways or because they already have freedom of movement (CTA between UK & IRE, TT between AU & NZ, etc.). Those who can afford to do CBI and get out of CANZUK & CUNA are doing just that. The biggest issue is cost and the fact that for those who can't afford CBI, visa options are rapidly vanishing as the world becomes very insular.
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  49.  @asiatravel2010  Utter bullshit. His visa was cancelled upon arrival because the govt wanted to score political mileage, then the courts said he did nothing wrong and gave him back his visa. Then the immigration minister cancelled his visa citing "health" and "good order" ground - basically wrong think because Novak is against the jabs and his presence would result in civil unrest and would encourage people to be anti-vax. Novak did nothing wrong other than thinking rule of law exists in this place - it doesn't, ministers can eject you over what they think you might think or do. Search for an article called "Novak Djokovic deported, could be banned from Australia for three years, but there is a loophole", it explains what I'm saying in full detail.
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  50. You're dreaming if you think it adds certainty. It doesn't - it muddies the waters as even if you live 2+yrs in another country, should you have a 3mth holiday in another country Australia could argue you haven't stayed long enough in your country of tax residence and thus demand you pay tax to them (Australia) just for being a citizen, what if legitimate business travel ends up as 5mths? There is no "after X yrs you're free to live how you like as long as you stay abroad". If you think its not law and thus nothing to worry about, I hope you have millions upon millions to burn on legal fees going to court if the ATO don't agree with you. The cost of going to court makes it irrelevant as to whether or not its a law or a ruling as the outcome will be the same - you'll likely lose to the ATO and courts will take all your money in fees, even if you win, you'll still lose as you'll go broke thanks to legal fees, thus going to court isn't an option. This is the problem of govts having the final say and the power to screw you around until you comply.
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