On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 19:15 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote: > Are you serious? This is retarded. Not like "slow" retarded, more like > clinically braindead retarded. > I never said it wasnt :P
> There is absolutely no reason why someone in the UK working for me > should have to give two craps about US taxation, or know anything about > it, or even know what the IRS is. If their government wants to tax > income received from foreign sources instead of domestic ones in the > same basic fashion they do, well, I guess that might be hard to argue > with, but that should be the limit. > They arent in the US, you are, so its on you to comply with their rules or relocate and do business to business transactions. There are some things that are generally ignored (for now ...) where no employees, offices, agents, or anything else are in the US, then the transaction is deemed to be outside and all that. Hell if you buy goods online you are required to remit state sales tax on your own (yeah really). 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. To paraphrase a US judge, it is every tax payers right to lower their tax liability in any way the law allows. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721
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