Awsome! I believe it is an incredible business model, you guys are an example to Latin American people
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#12I had a question about payment but your FAQ answered it, great work on being flexible for freelancers, Payoneer makes it a lot easier about getting paid in Argentina for example. A couple of questions: 1- Do you think you will ever integrate with remote job boards like remoteok.io? 2- Did you consider adding Venezuela to the list of countries, or are things too difficult to do legally?
Hey Gaby. We are working very hard to make our service available in Venezuela. Actually we are already working with a couple of contractors there. And Argentina is another difficult jurisdiction that we are already solving for.
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#13Awsome! I believe it is an incredible business model, you guys are an example to Latin American people
Thanks!
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#14Hello Santiago, Julian, and Jaime. Congratulations on the product. How is this different from: https://www.letsdeel.com ?
Thanks! We are born out of LATAM so we have faster payments and a better understanding of local regulations.
I am sorry to let you down, but I used Deel to pay people in Colombia, and it works like a charm.
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#15What's the core difference between something like this and remote.com?
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#16What's the core difference between something like this and remote.com?
Hey! We are better and faster with payments and compliance in LATAM. We are also cheaper and have much better customer support :)
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#17How do you all deal with permanent establishment? Especially with renewed focus in BEPS and all that... e.g. substantive work as employee or agent in another country means proportional corp taxes
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#18"quality at a fraction of price compared to what they can get elsewhere." - not sure about this part. I moved from $LATAM_COUNTRY to $A_COUNTRY_NORTH_OF_MEXICO precisely because given my skill level, compensation was too low and my work too undervalued. Remote should leverage the playing field in the other direction: expect to be paid as well as you would if you lived in a more developed country. Insist on it. Don't undersell yourself.
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#19"quality at a fraction of price compared to what they can get elsewhere." - not sure about this part. I moved from $LATAM_COUNTRY to $A_COUNTRY_NORTH_OF_MEXICO precisely because given my skill level, compensation was too low and my work too undervalued. Remote should leverage the playing field in the other direction: expect to be paid as well as you would if you lived in a more developed country. Insist on it. Don't…
Thank you for your comment. Completely agree.
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#20How do you all deal with permanent establishment? Especially with renewed focus in BEPS and all that... e.g. substantive work as employee or agent in another country means proportional corp taxes
We offer a standard handling of contractor agreements, in which our database knows exactly what the regulation for each country is, and what the corresponding gross up has to be in order for the contractor to net the desired income. We assist contractors in their tax residence, to optimize their payouts to government, while keeping everything 100% compliant so the company is not as risk. Whenever regulations get too complex for independent contractos in a country, we offer plug and play, which is an outsourcing of the contractor, and Ontop hires them.