
Originally Posted by
seashell
That's a pretty serious thing to do... yes, you can get double taxed, but it's not the end of the world. I think the official rule is, you file taxes in both countries. If you owe more income tax to the US than the country you're living in, then you pay that extra amount to the US.
Estonia's e-visa isn't actually a visa to live there, just to do business there. They're supposedly working on a legit nomad visa, but it's not available yet.
Czech Republic and Germany have freelancer visas. The process to acquire them can be time consuming and complicated, but there are companies you can pay to help you with the paperwork/translation. You can be honest about your work, or try to hide it under a category like "web marketing." I personally taught in Czech Republic as an English teacher, so I went the vanilla route to be legal there, and also kept camming on US sites, which I reported on my US taxes.
As a US citizen, you can easily get a working holiday visa for 1 year (maybe 2?) in New Zealand or Australia, if you're under 30. It's all done online and doesn't take long. You'd be able to legally live there and pick up work locally if you want to.
The work that you do in your home country is a legal gray area. As a general rule, don't announce that you're camming, or working for a US company, and you should be fine.
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