Pros and Cons everywhere.

There is no ideal country.

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Living in the Cheh republic Prague move to Thailand , much better ...Exelent hospitals, best food in the world, super beach good people ....Probably best lace in the world...

That is not what I wrote but you are free to challenge anything that I did write as what I wrote is easily supported with facts. WTF is wrong with you?

Mexico is in the shit, Venezuela is in the shit, there is tons of strife in the Middle East, Central Europe is subject to all sorts of outside influence, in most countries the government can shut you down in seconds with little recourse, so just show me on which points I am so fucking wrong, OK?

GFY.

Sally.

Rent a tent and a camel in Saudi Arabia...

BKK, Thailand.

Top hospitals, Top food, Good internet, Safe, Cheap, Ladyboys

CZ is a nice country, but I think you need to check your info. The tax is higher than 15%, and you also need to pay social and health insurance (income taxes). Combined the direct income tax is somewhere around 50%.

Yep, that's how I did it and it costed only aprox. $55.

I've read on many sites that the income tax is a flat 15%, but I can't post links because I have less than 30 posts.

Can anyone else living in the Czech Republic confirm what Zyber is saying? I know that social and health insurance would go on top but 50% sounds a lot.

Good point. I love France and Italy and would be willing pay the high taxes, it's the buerocracy I couldn't stand. They even have tax on porn don't they? I think that would be too much.

15% flat income tax on your gross salary.

35% in social taxes on your gross salary (paid by employer, but comes out of your pocket).

20% VAT tax on all purchases except for things like water, medicine, books, etc which is 10%.

Corporate tax is 19%.

Cordoba, take a look here
http://www.alexio.cz/business_tax_ra..._republic.html

Just a quick calculation based on the info from that website. I might be wrong :winkwink:
Health + Social: 25% + 6,5% + 9% + 4,5% = 45%
Tax base: 145%
Income tax: 15% * 1.45 = 21.75%
Combined direct income tax: 45% + 21.75% = 66.75%

The trick is that the tax has been split up between the employer and the employee, so the tax looks much lower from the employee's point-of-view than the true cost.

A self-employed person has to pay both the employee, and the employer part.

Another trick is that they call it "health insurance" and not "health tax".

My best advice is to ask a tax advisor to get the accurate info. :)

probably netherlands?

to guy who mentioned thailands safety - thailands safety is from "today to tommorow" - did you miss all those riots just few months ago? it is time bomb you never know when it will explode again...

What a great thread. I will be daydreaming of places all day now (that I can't go because of kids)

take a pill sweetyyyy... cant take a joke.... maybe u need to get laid or a good massage will do u good sweety pie.

why does the language suck?

No vowels. Or at least they don't like to use them.

Actually the grammer of Czech seems remarkably straightforward, it's just completely different to latin or germanic languages and all the words are unfamiliar..except 'robot', which is a czech word. Also, only 8 million people speak it, so it's practically useless if and when you don't want to live there anymore.

thanks...

It takes 2 months and a $10,000 deposit to form a corporation? Insanity...

Poland for me.

the main issue will be pussy. who gives a fuck about taxes and blah blah blah if you don't like the local pussy $.02

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh exactly what i was thinking

what an utterly rdiculous post was that damn :1orglaugh

sunny bulgaria, cheap find something near sea and enjoy

thanks for the information.

Why do so many adult webmasters live in the Czech Rep. if the tax rate is (effectively) so high?

I may as well go to Spain or somewhere like Croatia with a better climate.

I guess you haven't seen the thread about the two porn producers jailed for a year there.

I was actually considering Bulgaria before I'd seen that. Bulgaria is dirty cheap and the tax rate definately is 15% with no catches.

new zealand is my favourite

What i thought !
1000$ means a lot for them, so i guess that a couple of them a month makes you look like Gates :1orglaugh

Yep and if you love poutine :winkwink:

I love various Lat Amer countries, particularly pussy there. But every one of them is a shithole for various reasons. Living there as a permanent resident becomes a serious hustle; you need to deal with all kinds of bs every day you don't need to think about in the US. And you have no legal protection. If you have money, you also need to worry about safety, your place being broken into when you are away, all kinds of safety-related bs. So now I love living in the US, live in a state with no state tax, minimize IRS taxes, and just travel to Lat Amer a few weeks at a time strictly as tourist to party.

Plus quality RE is cheaper here. You can get luxury condo in Miami for less than comparable condo anywhere in Lat Amer. And you don't have any bs to deal with.

I also agree that Lat Amer will prob be very unstable for the next few years, with revolutions and other such shit.

So true.

tsunamis...

What about hungary ?

id go to ukraine and do some serious macking

How difficult is it to get residence in Thailand?

all countries of South America are very good for our business. Accessible laws, good climate, cheap real property and beautiful women. welcome! :thumbsup

Sealand :1orglaugh

Can any of the webmasters here living in the Czech republic confirm that the self-employed have to pay around 60% of their income in tax/social/health?

i was gonna suggest Malta..
since i am on the American continent i would look at Panama or possible Costa Rico.

while the numbers might be true it's not how you do it...

you do your own company, corporate tax is 19%

you have to be employed in your own company anyways, but you pay yourself a ridiculus low wage - like $500 a month. on that you pay social insurance, health incurance, income tax etc.

then you take out profit from your company and on that you pay a flat tax of 15% - and that's it.

many thanks for the useful information. perhaps I will end up in Prague after all.

:winkwink:

and don't forget to put as many things in your company as possible - car, apartment, phone etc - this way everything is paid before tax and you get 20% VAT back.

yeah except I'm not into LBFM's :(

f.. Czech Republic, f... Poland...these countries are only nice 3 months/ year....

+ it's expensive here, but still probably not that much as on West...

go somewhere where is hot..spain is good option...


i would recommend you more places though i don't like crowds in my favorite places :)

Surprising no one wrote CYPRUS. Here is a pretty good option for what you are looking for. Many porn companies do business in Cyprus. Some just on paper and others have staff here. This is EU country, well developed, high end resort area. Many people from UK immigrate here. They have their own city Paphos. Check it out. Driving is on the left side like in UK, as this is a former colony.
Also, this is an off-shore zone with lowest taxes, about 10%.
Anyway, wanna move here? Let me know and I can assist.

Nice thread :)

can you confirm this?

The Pacific Northwest.

Florida?
No personal income taxes.

The Social Security tax rate for 2010 is 15.3 percent on self-employment income up to $106,800. If your net earnings exceed $106,800, you continue to pay only the Medicare portion of the Social Security tax, which is 2.9 percent, on the rest of your earnings.

Dont do it, just dont lol
I lived there for 18 months or so, knew about 40 expats there as well and not 1 liked it there after 12 months.

Most unfriendly people i have ever encountered in my life and that is saying a lot seeing that i have traveled the globe quite a few times.

Now that was 5 years ago, but i doubt many, if anything has changed.

Iran

:2 cents:

You could say this about most Eastern European countries. I spend 1 month of the year in either Czech or Hungary. There is no such thing as the "customer is always right". People are generally only as helpful as they have to be and nothing more. I find Europeans in general to be quite aloof.

I am considering moving to Hong Kong (Very modern but a lot of red tape and you probably have to be very rich to move there, like invest $1 million there or such to get a residence permit).

Bahamas (paradise climate, English official language, no taxes, ugly women (you need to bring a woman from some other country :D), you need $500k+ but you don't need to invest it anywhere)

or Panama (very humid climate and a 3rd world country but no taxes for offshore income, cheap hookers and plenty of hot girls)..