Episode 312: TMBA312: Let’s Talk Tax
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/tax/ One of the major issues that location independent entrepreneurs, who spend time outside their home country, grapple with is tax. Let’s be honest: we’re all looking for ways to pay less of that! Phil Hodgen is a leading lawyer in this field, advising his clients on the relative advantages of foreign earned income exclusion, acquiring overseas residency or even, in some cases, expatriation. In this week’s show we bring you advice that could save you thousands of dollars. And yes, we’re talking dollars. This guidance is mostly applicable to U.S. citizens but Phil also talks about general principles that other nationalities will find useful too.
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| 0:00.0 | They say everybody's got different problems. Well, maybe so, but I've got a song about one problem that every one of us have, and that's taxes. Well, this song's about what it's like after taxes. |
| 0:13.9 | All right, Ian, so we're not going to play the intro music today, so I feel like in the middle of the ocean without any flippers. |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah, this is different, but I think this is what |
| 0:21.7 | the pros do. They don't rely on cheesy music to make good podcasts. So here we are. Here we are. |
| 0:26.8 | This is a podcast for location independent entrepreneurs. And often what that implies is that we move |
| 0:33.1 | around a lot. And we have small businesses with elements distributed around the globe. And this brings up a lot of |
| 0:40.5 | problems and a lot of opportunities. And one of the problem opportunity locuses is taxes. We're just so |
| 0:48.3 | lucky to have Phil Hodgen from Hodgen.com on the program today, an internationally recognized tax expert, a leading voice |
| 0:57.1 | in issues of American citizenship, specifically around expatriation and repatriation, and a presenter |
| 1:03.9 | now at two of our events and an active member of our community. And he's probably got a lot of other |
| 1:08.4 | accolades from real organizations. |
| 1:17.0 | Ian, at our annual meetup every year in October, we talk about it a lot on this program. |
| 1:21.3 | Our podcast producer, Jane, took the time out to talk to Phil. |
| 1:24.5 | And so that's the voice you're going to hear on this week's program. |
| 1:28.4 | We're just going to sort of hover above and listen in and comment when we can't shut up. So that's the plan here. But first, let's mention some things that you can expect |
| 1:33.4 | to hear in this interview. The first is we're going to hear the case of the accidental American. |
| 1:38.8 | We're going to hear the advantages and disadvantages to keeping your U.S. passport. |
| 1:43.1 | And we're going to talk about the number one |
| 1:44.8 | most elegant way to reduce your tax liability. Yeah, and listen in because most of us couldn't |
| 1:50.4 | afford this information from Phil on our own. So this is a treat. |
| 1:54.9 | Because from them total wages earn down to that net amount that's due. I feel a painful sense of loss between the two. |
| 2:05.6 | I'm Phil Hodg in Pasadena, California and C2A on some random flight somewhere. All I do is |
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