You do have to register and pay taxes somewhere. Either your home country or wherever you spend 183 during a year.

This is false.

Very few countries tax citizens abroad making money abroad, regardless of their local tax situation. And many countries have totally different standards for when you start needing to pay taxes, primarily by having actual work authorization and making any money there.

It’s apparently about the government person tracker, where you can’t be registered if you aren’t in NL for 4 months, and you need a specific kind of address.

https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/tax-return-abroad/pay-income-tax

idk, the government seems pretty clear that only income from the netherlands matters for taxes…

whether it’s ethical to not be paying taxes anywhere while using tax-funded stuff everywhere

They’re from the Netherlands. How bad the tax funded stuff is is unethical for how much taxes they take.

I got the new iPhone and my old iPhone has been locked by t-mobile (neither apple or t-mobile will do anything about it)

What?

I didn’t think any actually did that still.

Is it fully paid off?

what do you mean by “esim company for multiple countries”? Like a phone carrier that covers more countries?

T-mobile has an okay one.

Well, first identify what you want.

Travel Insurance and travel medical aren’t the same thing.

Do you want one that will let you get even more significant care where you are or one that will just ship you back to Canada and wipe their hands clean?

genki seems fine. I have them. I only had one claim and it was so recent it hasn’t finished yet, but the process was simple, and the terms are generous.

But it is also something where, if it’s outpatient, you pay first and they reimburse you, with no way to get any kind of formalized pre-approval, which at a minimum can be stressful, even when the price isn’t that bad and you can float the cost until reimbursement.

For you, probably only commonwealth countries.

Every country requires work authorization to engage in productive work.

Legally.

In reality, especially if you aren’t working for a company in that country, enforcement is not only difficult, but just not really high on the concerns.

The spirit of this part of immigration law is to protect the domestic work force (and collect taxes as a secondary). So if you aren’t actually competing with the local work force for local jobs, you’re not really a primary concern. It is still against the LETTER of the law though. So do at your own risk.

You’re unlikely to get seriously punished in most countries even if caught, but it can impact future ability to get visas to that country and other stricter countries. Like you’ll have a hard time getting legal access to the US again for a while after you violate immigration law once.

In this case, you can work from “home” with home being wherever you are.

I see permission there.