I’m not sure what you still call a visa run.
illegally working English teachers and south east hookers are comparable, imo.
If nomading is illegal, people doing it are comparable too, but I’m not sure if it is illegal.
Nah, you teach standing up.
Finally figured out how to turn off notifications for this thread. 
It seems the system automatically set this topic to “watching” for me as I asked the original question.
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@Marco is making great points in this thread. It is abusing the system.
The other problem you will run into is taxes. You are rendering services in the ROC. Therefore, it’s taxable. And, as a visa runner, you are a non-resident, and that tax rate sucks! You will also owe taxes to your home country, as yes, you are probably not taxed if you are a * non-resident* of XYZ country, but becoming a non-resident requires establishing residency elsewhere. If you get audited they are going to ask for a resident permit, a health care card, ties to Taiwan, etc.
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Didn’t the cutting of the Thai visa happen due to the HIV outbreak?
if you stay for more than 183 d, you are a tax resident.
Yeah! They give me free ketchup at Taco Bell but doesn’t mean I can walk away with the entire tray of ketchup packs.
If too many people abuse it, they put the ketchup behind the counter and limit it.
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Taiwan tighten it up in response to Thailand announcement last year to implement new visa application scheme for Taiwanese. Basically making Taiwanese applicants to provide evidence of their finances while applying for visa before travel.
All over the world there are sex workers travelling disguised as tourists. Most countries put resources into stopping them at the boarders and belive me a single girl in her 20s travelling with a well stamped passport or entering the same country numerous times will be stopped.
Isn’t it illegal to sell sex in Taiwan? Teaching without work permit is likely the be a less criminal offence.
Whatever the Taiwanese law says I see some difference in spreading STD versus spreading Knowledge
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this description can be very arguable.
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That’s not true.
This was dated 3 September 2018.
This is dated 3 December 2019.
You are welcome to see it that way. I see it as unfair for the rest of us who did the process correctly and legally in two ways. A job was taken from the legal crowd and since it is illegal, it lowers the trust authorities have in us.
Every good and correct thing we do increases our trust.
Every bad thing we do lowers it.
Are you lowering or increasing trust?
Might be wrong, but it’s a very unusual response to sex trade problems… If I have time later I will do some research.
Guess your not a sex worker.
I highly agree on that
I don’t have a work permit in Taiwan and I don’t work here. But in general I’m all about increasing trust
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Me → Visitor Visa to Working Visa to Joining Family Resident Visa to Alien Permanent Resident Certificate to Citizen Applicant…All without leaving the country. No visa runs EVER.
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They’ll then ask for an ARC. If you don’t have it they will always consider you a non-resident.
Trust me on that one, many friends have gone through this.
does this mean, you don’t need to report foreign income not earned by nomading work in Taiwan? Or you should report all the income as a tax resident, but the non resident rate is applied?
If you earn more than, say, 2,000k NTD by the nomading work in Taiwan, tax by non resident rate might be smaller than that of resident rate.
Bingo. The non resident/resident distinction is only applied to those who have ARCs; that’s why bosses charge the 18% tax rate for the first six months of a job (though some of the bastards do it for the first six months of every year, though that’s not required) when someone lands in Taiwan, gets an ARC, and starts working then it reverts to the resident tax rate after.
then, you should make a careful consideration, if your foreign income is more than 6700k NTD.
Stop saying it’s abuse. What is your problem?
You are not the government.
The law allows us to do visa runs as long as we do not do anything illegal here.
You are acting like Visa runs are illegal.
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Ya I even asked the immigration woman if visa runs are illegal/bad. She said absolutely no problem so long as we aren’t breaking any laws. Just people wanting to pick a fight
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It’s abuse in the way taking all the sugar packs from family mart. You can take a few. Not the whole tray.
I’m not gonna stop calling it abuse. I think it’s abuse.
One visa exempt run? Okay.
Wanna change to a visa? Okay.
Been in the country on a 540-day alleged tour? Not okay.
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