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Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#32Peace of mind. Take care of all my trivial stuff for me. Bills, taxes, money management, politics, corruption and other stupid distractions that stop me from focusing on people that matter. How much do you want?
It'd be interesting to look at a meta service to acquire and manage all of those things for you.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#33Tax evasion as a service. Target the same legal loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying taxes like "transfer pricing". You set up the offices and shell corporations in Ireland and the Netherlands for a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You then share those resources (offices, staff, lawyers, accountants, etc) between your clients & charge a percentage of the tax savings as your fee.
Fun fact: Tax Evasion means breaking the law to pay less taxes; Tax Avoidance means doing things to pay less tax within the confines of the law.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#34A work/travel-program for knowledge professionals to travel the world and work a set number of hours a week on projects to pay their way. Air tickets, budget, airbnbs/apartments all paid for. Then you resell services to clients.
You could probably keep a high enough margin by saving through smart purchasing/renting of travel along and picking lower cost/highly desired destinations (south east asia comes to mind, for example).
a business of lifestyle, if you will.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#35Tax evasion as a service. Target the same legal loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying taxes like "transfer pricing". You set up the offices and shell corporations in Ireland and the Netherlands for a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You then share those resources (offices, staff, lawyers, accountants, etc) between your clients & charge a percentage of the tax savings as your fee.
the irs would hit any partners you use to transfer funds very quickly with deep audits at the very minimum if this gets even a little traction, i'd think
The goal is to get shut down. Best case, you draw enough attention to the issue to create some real reform in our tax system and bring awareness to the fact that we're hurting innovation by giving big companies far better tax rates than startups.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#36A way to boost my cognitive capacities.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#37I have three windsport-related ideas for you. 1) weather analysis I'm a hang glider pilot, but this applies to all wind sports – windsurfing, kiteboarding, paragliding, sailplanes, possibly even surfing and skydiving. These sports require weather analysis. Is the wind blowing from the right direction? Is the cloudbase high enough? Some weather analysis tools exist like http://www.xcskies.com/ for hang gliding and par…
Seabreaze weather site in Australia is something like this for sailing related sports. They have built a solid business on it so I can only imagine a bigger market like the US would be very viable.
Here's the site story (in cartoon form):-
http://www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Welcome/Cartoon.aspx
And a sample page:-
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#38Tax evasion as a service. Target the same legal loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying taxes like "transfer pricing". You set up the offices and shell corporations in Ireland and the Netherlands for a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You then share those resources (offices, staff, lawyers, accountants, etc) between your clients & charge a percentage of the tax savings as your fee.
Fun fact: Tax Evasion means breaking the law to pay less taxes; Tax Avoidance means doing things to pay less tax within the confines of the law.
I'm being intentionally provocative. :)
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#39Peace of mind. Take care of all my trivial stuff for me. Bills, taxes, money management, politics, corruption and other stupid distractions that stop me from focusing on people that matter. How much do you want?
You want a personal CFO. This honestly could work, but I don't know how the trust needed to make this work would scale well..
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#40Time.