[asterisk-biz] OT: Paying people in faraway (Western) places.

[Patrick Davis]

Just hire him on a contract as a consultant. As long as you don't  
define the time and place of work, provide tools to do the work, and  
he isn't working on your site you shouldn't have any problem.

If you want have him write a one page proposal. There shoudn't be any  
withholding taxes etc. He may need to look after changing you the VAT  
or something like that, but that is his responsibility not yours.

If you aren't that sure about it, or for some other reason he want to  
be treated like an employee, you can always go t an outsourcing (temp)  
type agency. They will put the person on heir payroll, keep the  
withholding taxes etc and they will pimp him out to you and keep a few  
bucks per hour in exchange. This seems like overkill.

Patrick

On 7-Jan-09, at 8:42 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:

> Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
>
>> Jersey has 0% corporate tax rates (20% individual) which upsets the  
>> US
>> and many EU nations to no end claiming "its not fair", why they got  
>> put
>> on a tax haven list recently.  There are other places that similarly
>> have good tax laws that allow you to structure things in a way that  
>> is
>> legal but gets around the tax laws.  Remember "tax avoidance" is  
>> legally
>> structuring stuff to not pay taxes, while "tax evasion" is the  
>> illegal
>> way - the difference largely is pre-planning and intentionally  
>> making an
>> effort to avoid those rules.
>
> Yeah, I know.  I'm aware of that sort of thing.
>
> The problem is, I don't want to become an "international  
> businessman" -
> I have neither the resources nor the business case nor the capital for
> it.  This UK deal is most likely a one-off;  I'm not planning on  
> hiring
> others in the UK per se, nor am I expecting to hire many others in
> non-US countries.
>
> So, I have absolutely zero interest in setting up any offshore holding
> companies and/or registered entities in Caribbean tax havens and/or  
> all
> that other stuff that people do.  I just can't justify it all for one
> person, or even a few people.  It's simply not worth it.  I'm not
> Microsoft, and I have no substantial assets to avoid (not evade) taxes
> with like large corporations.  So, dicking around with this stuff  
> would
> be a pointless waste of my time.
>
> I just want to hire a guy in the UK with a minimum of hassle to me,  
> and
> especially to him.  How freaking hard can this be?
>
> -- 
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
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