That’s what I’m a bit worried about. I mean each time I enter a country I “lie” about where I’m living. Since you just aren’t really able to go anywhere or do anything as residenceless otherwise. And usually nobody cares (I’ve also opened some banc accounts like that, nobody ever cared).
The thing about being residenceless is that you can’t get an official form to prove it. I’ve got some paper proving that I’m not living at the former mentioned municipality anymore (Abmeldebestätigung), and that my new place of residency is unknown and the reason therefore is that I’m on a world travel. But I can not prove that meanwhile I haven’t become a tax residence in any of the other 200 existing countries.
I’ve filled out the W8-BEN form at Interactive Brokers without any problems. According to them I would be ready to start trading, they send me an e-mail each week to make my first money transfer to them. My main worry is, that at one point of time somebody would ask more questions and if that could get me into any troubles (difficult to get my money back, or some legal stuff), especially at the end of the year, when the whole tax stuff starts…
In general Degiro asked a lot less questions, so I’m more inclined to use them.
But so I was wondering if Degiro or Interactive Brokers at some point of time start asking more questions? More stuff that needs to be proven?
I’m not planning to trade with milions (Otherwise I would just pay somebody to solve all problems for me) so I guess that won’t raise any red flags.
I guess nobody really knows about the legal part? (Some friends of mine studied law, but it’s not their area of expertise and they couldn’t really help me).
My parents moved to an other village, so they’ve also tried to “move” me. But as it seems you can only do that in person. So the municipality just deregistered me when they’ve heard I’ve been outside for several years. Fortunately I could keep my health insurance (nobody told them I’m not living in Switzerland anymore) until I was able to get an international one. Which at the end is a lot cheaper with almost no deductible. Actually at the end it’s been quite a pain in the ass to get rid of the Swiss health insurance. In general life has got a lot easier and cheaper since I’m not officially living there anymore. No more official forms to fill out which my mother every year forgets to inform me about. No more swiss health insurance or fireman taxes (90CHF) which my mother forgets to inform me about and I have to pay overdue fines therefore.
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