kungen

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

And if you get poisoned with 2,4-DNP, your ATP will make you into a thermal power plant before you die of uncontrolled hyperthermia!

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do your landlords not have any requirements to provide even a communal washing machine? In Sweden, and probably most other countries, the law says you have to have it within reasonable distance, otherwise the apartment isn't considered "livable".

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 8 points 1 week ago

They usually make it so you can't cash out anything that's less than the voucher. Or rather that the wins get counted first.

Let's say you get $50 free, win $25. You then play for $25 and lose, the remaining $25 shown on your balance won't be able to be cashed out.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

if they got kicked off of Amazon Web Services, they’d be done for.

You know that Amazon bought Twitch many years ago, right? And they still own it.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not significantly more.

Good, and you understand how the level calculations work, right? If you earn $121k, you're only going to calculate taxes for $1k of income for example.

It sucks to pay even a cent to the US, but probably still cheaper and less risk compared to giving up citizenship -- especially if you have family there that'd you'd like to be able to visit in the future.

for a consultancy in the US

That makes it a bit more complicated, but if you're abroad over 330 days, you'd fill form 673 to prevent withholding for example. Have you not retained an accountant to help guide you through this? Based on the information you've shared, it seems like you're paying a lot more into the system than you need to.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're earning significantly over $120k/year? Then you file a form 1116 to have a credit against foreign-paid taxes. And even then, whatever income was left over after deductions doesn't put you automatically in the highest tax classes.

Where are you living where you're earning so much? I know many US expats, basically no one is earning that much, much less native-born citizens. It's the US that usually pays much more for engineering, not as much in RoW.

Is your cost of living so high that you're unable to save any of your super high income? You don't necessarily need to "extract wealth from other people".

It sucks to need to file taxes to a regime you're not residing in, but you surely understand the purpose of it? Don't you think it's probably a good thing that billionaires can't just make big profits in the US and pretend they're living in Malta?

Sorry, but as someone who has helped several high-earning expats with their US taxes, it really seems like you're either setting hinders for yourself (intentionality or otherwise), or doing some creative writing.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

have to pay taxes to the US on my income that I earn while living elsewhere

You do an FEIE deduction on your 1040. If you're earning less than $120,000 in a year and live more than 330 days outside of the US during a tax year, you thus don't need to pay a single dollar to the IRS.

(I agree it's messed up that US citizens have to file taxes, but you don't need to resign your citizenship to avoid paying US taxes - as long as you're a bona fide resident of a foreign country and earn less than $120k.)

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 6 points 2 weeks ago

Free passage, but limited rights. In the US, you could move to a state with "easier" welfare programs, and collect them... whereas in the EU (Schengen), you're not allowed to stay longer than 90 days at a time without having a job/being able to support yourself.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 24 points 3 weeks ago

Or at the least, a violation of the Logan Act.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Harshest punishment requires the warning and ignoring of it.

Does it say that in the law code? I thought that being ignorant of the law doesn't matter for most prosecutions ("ignorantia juris non excusat")

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 3 weeks ago

Travel to a different state and have sex for only $100? What a cheapskate.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 4 weeks ago

Both Monster and Red Bull have inositol in it, at least in Sweden.

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