appelflappe

joined 1 year ago
[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Canary islands

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It can be very tiring both mentally and psychical.

Lot of laws are not build around perpetual travelers living in a Grey area.

Lots of short term rentals sucks.

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah this is a big one for me

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It's weird in the sense that if you are not in the country for 4 months a year that you have to unregister and you can not register on a mailing adress. It has very specific requirements and just not living here for 4 months is one of them too.

Homeless can register in nl for a mail adress but they live in nl and have to comply with certain things as giving there whereabouts like the shelters they stay at.

Health insurance is same in nl, when you deregister you lose your health care and don't have to pay for it anymore and lose pension 2% a year you're abroad.

I talked to multiple tax advisors troughout the year all giving conflicting answers :(

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

All of our income is from outside the netherlands and out of the eu for that matter. We have tried opening bank accounts and France and Spain but have been rejected. Thanks for the link!

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's illegal and seen as fraud. I feel like I am less in a Grey area now as if I were to do this. People have been caught doing exactly this and been fined heavily.

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I've been getting information on Estonia e residency but it doesn't seem it will hold up if the belastingdienst does decide to come after us. I won't ever come back to the nl so that won't be a problem haha!

Do you have a plan set up for when you leave next year or are you going the same way I did?

 

My gf and I are both dutch citizens nomadding in Europe for 3 years now. We fell into it when we moved for a job opportunity that didn't work out and decided to be nomadic from that point onwards.

I love this lifestyle, and really don't want to stop but we have found ourself in a predicament. Our home country doesn't allow us too have a mailing adress if we don't spend 4 months of the year in the country(we spend 0 days). So we are registered nowhere. A home base elsewhere is something we can't afford and keep living this lifestyle.

Traveling in europe is expensive and troughout the year we break about even(we know it's not ideal but we are fine with it for now) if we had to keep a homebase year round and pay taxes we wouldn't be able to afford living like this anymore.

The problem now is however that banks require some form of adress and recently wise started asking questions and we are scared our bank account might get frozen and leave us without money somewhere and have no access to it.

Also, the rules for digital nomads in the Netherlands are a bit iffy. It's not 100% transparent if you need to pay taxes even tough we spend 0 days here and the last 2 years we were in contact with the tax officials and didn't even have to file.

I've been scouring the internet recently and found a few things such as Estonia e residency that might help with opening bank accounts but won't fix the residency issue and same with opening a American llc but still no adress or residency.

The cheapest option for residency it seems is bulgaria with low taxes and not too high col but like I stated in the beginning, this would crush our digital nomad life as we could not afford traveling around anymore with the added costs. And we would have to stay 183 days there and my gf doesn't like bulgaria whatsoever.

Tldr; do we need to stop nomadding for now in order to have paperwork in order and get life sucked out off us or is there a way we can continue

[–] appelflappe@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I think you can set up a Wyoming llc and invoice from there.