If I work remotely for a foreign company, do they need to deduct Taiwan taxes from my salary, or can I pay the tax on my own?

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Do American companies withhold foreign income tax for their remote workers abroad, under tax treaties?

You become responsible to the government here for tax on your worldwide income simply by spending X days here per calendar year. If your company doesn’t withhold anything, you still have a legal obligation to report the income and pay the tax yourself.

If you can legally avoid paying some or all of the tax through the relevant tax treaty, great. But that doesn’t seem to be what people have been saying so far in this thread.

@Dragonbones

Taiwan doesn’t care about what you don’t earn here (or, for practical purposes, about what’s not reported automatically through the system to the Taiwan government).

They can care about it if they want to.

One time (as a test) at the tax office I mentioned that someone had paid me privately to edit a document, and asked if I should report that. The clerk said they only care about what is already documented in their system.

1. We all know about chabuduoism. That doesn’t make it legal.

2. A brief gig on the side can in many cases fall under the 稿費 exemption and thus be tax free anyway.

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Friendly reminder to everyone:

This is not the place for “how to cheat on your taxes” type advice, so don’t go there. Thank you for your cooperation.