I’m currently paying taxes in my home country (UK) since I have a regular job with a UK company. I live in Estonia with a DNV (and most likely plan on staying the full year).
Technically, if I stay more than 6 months I need to pay taxes here, however, they seem to make it quite complicated and expensive, given my employer doesn’t have an entity here.
This just got me thinking whether you guys in a similar situation just ignore this and assume nobody will say anything, or do you do everything by the book? Or do you make sure you don’t stay more than 183 days?
Residence permits (mistakenly labeled as visas) usually have nothing to do with tax residency rules. To understand if you need to pay taxes, you just look at the tax laws of the country you have your permit in. Most of them use 183 days as the basic rules, but there are also nuances like center of interests, property, family, etc.
Some permits explicitly state that you’re exempt from the local taxes. Then you just continue paying them in your permanent residency country. Malta does this (not without its own nuances but still), lots of Carribean countries do this, but not Estonia afaik.
As for if you should comply, that’s your own decision. I wouldn’t recommend messing with taxes but there’s always a chance a country won’t notice or chase you at all.