Dreams of Working From a Beach Risk Turning Into a Tax Nightmare
With more firms offering remote work as a job perk, employees are country hopping. That could mean myriad complications when they’re filing returns.
Employees are increasingly demanding the choice to work remotely.
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Imagine for a second that the pandemic is over. Global travel has resumed, Covid hot-spots are a thing of the past and companies are actually keeping a promise some have been making lately: to allow remote work from anywhere in the world, at least for a few months a year.
Then envision a Londoner, a New Yorker and a Hong Konger walking into a bar. Let’s say it’s in Rio de Janeiro. They all make the same salary — $100,000 — and have been allowed to work remotely from Brazil for two months.