Say you work at one of these companies and you are based out of say SF, Seattle or NYC. You live there for 6 or so month per year so you are a tax resident of whatever city and state and keep the top compensation, and live 4-6 months in other countries (mexico, greece, canada, etc). As long as you are working the US timezone hours, it should be ok right? Will these companies allow it? Does Anybody have experience with this? #tech #twilio #dropbox #facebook #linkedin #atlassian #remote #remotecompanies #twitter #gitlabs #pinterest #spotify #affirm #github #circleci #wfh #remotework
Not at FB. Max 10 days per year in a country outside of your work location
For Amazon: * Max 10 days in another country * Short trips working from other states are fine, need explicit approval for more than a few days since there are company tax reporting requirements if you're working from another state for more than some time threshold
Nope
You can get fired for this anywhere if you’re an employee. If you’re a contractor, the government could come after you
lol and do what?
Yeah legally this isn't possible. Claiming income/taxes for one country/state and living and working out of another country/state is tax/employment fraud. I'd be hard-pressed to think any company would allow it, but it's definitely not allowed here at CircleCI. We do have remote workers in countries all over the world - but their paperwork legally reflects where they're working from, and we pay the taxes/dues accordingly. On the other hand, if you communicate with your employer about your plans, they may or may not be willing to accommodate. There are growing numbers of companies like CircleCI that are remote-first/remote-friendly. The majority of our engineering teams are fully remote. But they also work from countries that we have done paperwork for (e.g., Germany, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, etc.).
This is definitely not true. For many countries there are dual taxation agreements. On most of those agreements you pay taxes in the country you are living or presential for six months or more a year (very generally speaking). So it's perfectly legal and possible to work abroad remotely for six months minus one day in those cases. There are many countries now opening up for remote workers that are completely tax friendly and will welcome you. I know tons of people who do this in big companies and it hasn't been an issue staying months at a time abroad. (Apple, Sony, Oracle, Mozilla folks come to mind) It does require some flexing with HR because there are wrinkles but if the country pairs you are interested in allow it there's no fundamental reason a company can't allow you to do work remote from there.
Hey, can you refer me at CircleCI ? Is it possible to work from Canada?
The personal tax isn’t the issue. It’s the tax situation for the *company* which is the big hurdle. Unless they switch you to an independent contractor, but then that opens them up to certain work lawsuits (treating a contractor as a FTE, etc etc).
Not at Amazon. They are actually saying we should go back to the office.