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Comment by zevon | Hacker News Reader

OP literally said "I am mainly trying to save money on taxes"...

My 2 cent: Pay your taxes to support the infrastructure, services and development in the region you actually use most in your life activities.

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So if you were choosing a town to live in and one has a 2% tax rate and the other a 30% tax rate, you'd surely choose the 30% tax rate because you want to support your regional community?

More likely when you get past the virtue signaling, you'd choose the one that fits your needs with taxes as one of many variables. It comes down to taxes as a form of price discovery, tax rates vary greatly and at least at the federal level don't translate at all into your day to day life unless you work in the military or politics.

> So if you were choosing a town to live in and one has a 2% tax rate and the other a 30% tax rate

Well I live in Denmark, so you can draw your own conclusion.

OP is living in Thailand, and not a hypothetical town in the US or the EU, so the taxes being paid on this LLC won't be going to their regional community. Due to geopolitics, forming an LLC in Thailand isn't conducive to their business (which was not discussed, but lets assume they make a SaaS product), so it's easy to see taxes as much more of a cost than anything else because while yes, I think a town halfway across the world should have good roads and good schools and feed the hungry, OP isn't running a charity, and paying extra so town A can have better roads vs paying less so town B can have better roads becomes kind of academic and the concern becomes more about money to OP than anything else.

Look, for many people using a 401k is saving money on taxes. Does that imply 401k users are generally societal moochers?

There's nothing ethically wrong with optimizing inclusive of taxes. It's stupid not to. The OP is not stupid.

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