I’m in a small town on the coast of Panama, and I was told that here they don’t separate the organic from the reciclable residues. Have you been anywhere in Panama? Have you recycled?
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I’m in a small town on the coast of Panama, and I was told that here they don’t separate the organic from the reciclable residues. Have you been anywhere in Panama? Have you recycled?
Hi everybody,
We are at the beginning of a very interesting journey to eventually establish work spaces and accommodation in Panama.
But before we start, we’d love to figure out how Panama is perceived by you, US time zone and currency are any advantages ? Would you prefer more urbanic or beachfront locations ?
All feedback will be highly appreciated.
Cheers =)
I was in bocas last weekend, there is a group of digital nomads hanging around Selinas Hostel, the place is awesome, super friendly and wifi is ok/good… I loved Bocas, definitely planning to come back soon 
I am currently in Panama city
VERY INTERESTED
I am beginning my nomadic life in 2 months and Bocas del Toro is the first destination I’m looking at so I’m pretty amazed to read this post on my very first day in NomadList.
Definitely interested 
Keep me posted!
Let me know too! I’m going to Panama next month, would love to hear about a coworking/ coliving location in bocas del toro.
I’m spending the weekend in Bocas currently, but I’ve been based in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica these past few months. I’m finding Bocas to be friendlier, safer, better accommodations, and cheaper than the Costa Rican carribean coast.
So, I’m think of re-locating to Bocas, and if there was a coworking space that would seal the deal.
Hey! I see this post is from Aug 15. Did you make any headway on this? Before I left, it was a toss up between Panama and SE Asia. I choose Bali but still plan the C. America next. Let me know!
Yes, we’ve 3 locations on the making =), will be open around 4-6 months. I hope that you’ll come visit us.
Definitely interested. Would love more info when you have it (location, internet speed, price, etc)
@Conni you nailed it =), Bocas are definitely in our plans
@suuzin We’re aiming to open 3 different locations around Panama in early 2016, so we hope until winter 2016, everything we’ll be set and running.
How much would you pay for worksapce & accomodation for 1 month ? (Of course it would be possible to come for less,it’s just easier to assess)
Anyway, I would love to have a talk with you on Slack or any other platform to better undersatd your needs.
Thanks for feedback, have a great day =)
STRONGLY interested. In terms of payment, depends on what I’ve got coming in but I’d say at the moment under $100/mnth (which might be doable in Panama). If I can get over there in time, would be willing to help out too.
US currency, time zone are some of my top reasons for wanting to move No preference between urbanic or beachfront really, Panama City seems quite noisy by metro standards though so beachfront might be where to go. Theres already at least one coworking space in Casco Viejo though I think but nothing in Coronado which seems like it would be my first preference. Bocas seems rougher but I’d check it out.
Under $100 a month for a coworking space and accommodation? seriously? Guessing you missed a 0?
OH. More like I missed the co-living part. I just assumed it was yet another standard co-working space lol. For co-living I have no idea, it would depend what it was like. I wouldn’t go over 1k, there’s the 0 for you
I didn’t make it to Panama while in Costa Rica this year, but have heard good things about it, and it’s cheaper, and attractive to expats who want to settle and run businesses there, so I’ve read. I might be interested for winter 2016. I’ve heard mixed things about Bocas, but a friend who started there and traveled west, and then up into the wild parts of Costa Rica had a great time.
Awesome, I love the idea. Panama is great! Bocas del Toro would be a dream for digital nomads!!!
I’m from Europe and is looking for a country where I can declare my residency, mostly for tax purposes. Panama seems to fit everything. The plan is:
Since Panama has territorial tax, all income earned outside Panama has zero taxation.
Is it just that good or is there some hidden catch? I live in a Scandinavian country and they just hate to let people go. Will there be problems in paradise?
The plan is to visit Panama once a year and after five years get a passport.
Seems like this question was already answered by the whole Panama Papers thing… haha
But yes, Panama does have attractive tax schemes. Actually, much of Latin America has similar regulation. Countries like Malta also have attractive schemes to bring in new residents. I’m not an accountant or tax attorney so this isn’t professional advice but just general knowledge from living abroad for a long time.
As far as I understand it, most EU citizens can change their tax domicile after 180 days in a foreign country (and going through any process at home to change your country of residence). You might not necessarily have to get permanent residency in another country to pay taxes there or be considered a resident for tax purposes. It depends on your country of citizenship and immigration/tourist visa rules, how long you can stay on a passport in the destination country, etc.
Although it may seem too good to be true, some countries like Panama and Costa Rica explicitly don’t tax income that’s generated abroad or repatriated to the country from abroad, or it can depend on a lot of different factors such as where your customers are located. So in many countries there seem to be blatantly legal ways to significantly or completely lower one’s tax liability. Of course, if you’re American you still have to pay taxes on worldwide income and declare everything per the IRS website. But I have known British citizens for example who lived in Costa Rica and were paid to accounts in Panama and allegedly didn’t have to pay taxes anywhere.
The bottom line is to seek professional counsel in your country of citizenship and country of destination so that you can be covered on both sides. Never make personal financial decisions based on what you read in an online forum. Taxation is a very important topic that’s very individual to each person, and only you can make such determinations in collaboration with a tax advisor in each country you’re living or operating a business in. Anyone who can’t yet afford to hire an accountant or tax attorney may want to wait until s/he can before making such a big move. It will definitely cost less than making a mistake and paying fines in the future.
But you will be more protected against bankruptcy, lawsuits and personal taxes, as long as you don’t take out too much of that cash right now. You could consider it your pension fund and it is the asset you are building.
The idea is then to obtain a tax residency in a country where you won’t be taxed a huge amount of the money you want to take out of that HK company. Depending on your current situation, this process will be harder or easier and it might even involve giving up your current nationality, if you have a more drastic approach.
@manu So in such a case, your citizenship permitting, it is better to not incorporate at all?
if you just want to be able to tax 0% you should check out a Hong Kong Limited. I think that although it is a little sketchier you would save a ton of money compared to the Panama approach.
I recommend this blog post: https://boldanddetermined.com/hong-kong-business-guide/
Especially this can save you a lot of money and hassle:
Foreigners can own 100% of a Hong Kong company and are free to be the sole directors and shareholders of a Hong Kong company. There are no local resident requirements and there are no restrictions on nationality.
To open a Hong Kong company, you don’t need a physical address in Hong Kong and your physical presence is Hong Kong is not required
That post does not discuss or take into consideration personal residency taxation.
Corporate taxes are taxes on your corporation and legal entity.
Personal* taxes are usually based on where you are a residency (except for American and Eritrian citizens who are taxed on a worldwide basis regardless of residency)
To open a Hong Kong company, you don’t need a physical address in Hong
Kong and your physical presence is Hong Kong is not required
While you don’t need to be present for the HK company, You are required to be present to open a bank account in Hong Kong. Also there are better options for digital nomads opening up a legal entity. See FlagTheory.com/digital-nomad
Personal taxation are taxes on flow through income to you personally, which is what this article is discussing under the context of Panamanian residency.
Regarding Panama, - yes this country is a good option for residency to lower effective personal income tax rate. You might apply under executive decree 343 which basically requires investment in real estate and a company. More details at Passports.IO/Panama
Final thought on Panamanian companies - not as good as other options as there are 3 directors required and all the documents are in spanish. However - if applying under decree 343 a company and investment in real estate is required.
@FlagTheory If you are the sole controlling member of a corporation, most countries will view your corporation as resident where you are resident. This is what @anonym is referring to. Having a Panama or HK corp without considering your personal residency situation is an incomplete analysis.
If you are the controlling person for a company, your tax residence matters, both at personal and corporate level.
Of course if you are NOT tax resident anywhere then it’s fine. This depends on your nationality and how much time you spend in each country.
We both (and anonym) agree that refuse illusion had an incomplete analysis. Probably just linkbait for that blog as really it doesn’t have anything to do with the initial question.
These are complicated issues, we also agree that most countries will view your corporation resident if you are the sole controlling shareholder/director of a corporation.
These laws are oftentimes called CFC laws (controlled foreign corporation laws) and is also sometimes referred to as “anti-avoidance” legislation.
Here is a post I wrote with more details about this: [Is your Corporation Really Tax Free? Flag 2: Residence][1]
This is really important for digital nomads to consider:
Where they are a resident?
Does that jurisdiction have CFC or anti-avoidance laws?
3a. If NOT then perhaps an offshore company would be a good fit.
3b. If YES then perhaps setting up a company in that jurisdiction is better.
Are you american?
3a. If YES - the above does not apply as americans are subject to tax on a worldwide basis.
3b. If NO - this could apply, talk to an accountant in your jurisdiction.
This is very simplistic and not tax advice, but can provide a framework to think about these things. Hope this is useful!
[1]: http://flagtheory.com/residency
Great clarification Edmund. CFC rules are often overlooked. I pointed this out in my AMA many times. What’s your take on the case where people have no residence, but incorporate somewhere. Usually the DTAs between your home country and the place of incorporation fall back to your citizenship.
I’m not seeing how creating an company in Hong Kong solves anything. There is a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) law in nearly every country that taxes you if you have a company like that and that’s why you need a second residency. You tax where you live.
This is exactly what I found out – after creating an HK company. That company doesn’t have to pay taxes (on all revenue made outside of Hong Kong) but you’ll personally get taxed when you pay yourself. It’s not the solution that I was looking for.
I’m looking for the same… In Portugal the taxes are getting wild, and 45% of your income is for the taxes… too much for me. I’ll study Panama as well.
@Gonzohall I feel you… and it’s 48% after 8k/month, it’s insane.
I’m thinking that there are two/three different approaches to this, depending on your business and if you are ready to live 6 months away from Portugal every year.
If you sell stuff in Portugal/Europe or need to be VAT registered, I’d open a Bulgarian company and, if needed, a Portuguese subsidiary.
CFC rules don’t apply to European Union countries, so the portuguese gov can only tax what you actually take from the company.
If you can live out of Portugal for 6 months, get Bulgarian residency (super easy for an EU citizen), but you should have someone else has manager of the Portuguese subsidiary otherwise they may consider Portugal as your “center of economic interest”.
The other option is going full hardcore tax havenoffshore, Panama residency and a company there or IBV or something, but that will only work for services mostly.
IMO, I like Bulgaria, EU country, not known as a tax haven, low accounting costs, limited social security payments, 10% flat rate at company level and personal level, and 5% for dividends
PS: This is not professional advice.
Im currently pursuing this as well. Friendly Nations visa is reportedly under review so you’d need to get in fast. I’ve already got all the paperwork done but a deal I was waiting on fell through and and now Im trying to line up remote work to support myself to jump on this while it is still available.
Basing a startup out of Panama is a bad idea though if you need to hire locally. Ive still yet to confirm how many founders can come per company or if it is only one visa per company.
Hopefully in the next few months I can come back and update everyone on how it went. In the meantime, Panama like most LatAm countries seems to be weak on local coding talent and community. No CS in their universities, closest being systems engineering/information systems equivalent. Would be nice if there were more of us there
I’m curious about this too. What is the friendly nations visa? I’m also wondering how it would work if your residence is Panama, and you earn money online through US companies (like Google Adsense, for example), both as a US citizen or as a citizen of somewhere else (like France, for example).
Great to see you doing this. Are you doing this on your own?
Yup.
I sound crazy and out of left field to most I’ve described it to, particularly first worlders. Only people here seem to understand lol. Yourself? were you looking for a comrade-in-arms?
Howdy! Yes, most likely doing it on my own… oh, I have to write at least 70 characters… haha.
Oh whoops I thought that was in response to my response. I’m a little new here. 
Hi Munly_Leong,
Would love to find out how you got on. Any update on the application, and whether the review went ok?
I haven’t gone out yet though I’m still looking to do it ASAP. Building some location independent income streams before I head out first though so that a remote job is another option and not a necessity for living. Curious to see if anyone else has gone out yet though?
As much as I’d like to go out there asap as soon as I can via work income immediately, I’m trying to be a little smarter about it
@Munly_Leong Did you end up getting residency?
@jakegibson no, that will probably be the easy part. I’m mid interview process with a few remote roles but basically I won’t go out there without a remote job lined up on top for the first year at least in case my sales fall off a cliff lol. Hopefully those conclude positively first since this is still my biggest priority right now.
I’m also interested in more info on this. Sounds like a very interesting option. I do think you have to establish tax residency somehow though? I don’t know the criteria for that but just running a company there remotely or just visiting a few days a year might not count.
Does anyone understand the Panamanian retirement program? is there a way of becoming a resident by showing you are receiving income every month from investments and not from a pension or annuity?
I looked at it some time ago and decided against it. No reflection on visa, just country did not fit my plans. Have friends who applied and said it was pretty straightforward to qualify, although they used lawyer. What are the ifs do you see?
you may want to check out “friendly nations” program.
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 3✈️5h$4,761 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleI've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 41✈️7h$5,440 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peoplePlease stop going to Lisbon, stop telling people to go Lisbon. It is a beautiful city, yes. The Portuguese people are some of the nicest, warmest I've ever had the privilege to meet, yes. But the housing crisis in Portugal is real and terrible. Airbnb and temporary accommodation for tourists / nomads, combined with rich foreigners who can afford exorbitant rents, are pushing locals out of their homes: literally. Search about the housing crisis, the police-enforced evictions of families and the e
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 1✈️11h$2,063 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleLondon is the best city in the world - you just can't do it on a budget. It's got an amazing tech scene but ALSO world class media, fashion, finance, art industries and many others. If you don't want to live in a tech / expat mono-culture then it's for you. It is a genuine melting pot with a huge range of nationalities and cultures living together (the US has a large number of nationalities but there seems to be hard segregations between them geographically, economically, culturally - so they
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 21✈️12h$3,879 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 30✈️12h$3,856 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleDuring winter is quite safe plus much cheaper. Some nightclubs are free and yet there is still a lot of people. Great por lgbtq+ community.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 35✈️12h$2,840 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleOne giant tourist trap. Giant hordes of rich Europeans vacationing with their parents credit cards.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 31✈️12h$4,610 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 25✈️13h$2,941 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleMy husband and I spent about 6 weeks testing Prague in Nov-Dec 2018 as we were considering it as a semi-permanent base of operations for the next year or two. Honestly it was great and we plan on leaving Malta where we have been for the past year. Pluses - transportation is very good and quite cheap, tons of restaurants, lots to do. People are more reserved, perhaps even a bit suspicious, so I would not say it was an OVERLY welcoming vibe, however there are a lot of expats from the US, CA, UK
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️13h$1,939 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 49✈️13h$1,428 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 83😷✈️23h$1,426 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87°🥵AQI 60✈️25h$2,762 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people
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