<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heipei</author><text>I am a German living in Germany and worked remotely for a US company for a few years before they set up a German subsidiary. I was employed by the US corporation (so no employer of record), had a bi-lingual work contract which included all the necessary clauses for Germany (minimum vacation time, minimum termination period, &amp;quot;Probezeit&amp;quot;). My employer paid all social security contributions but did not automatically withhold income tax as a German company would have done, so I had to pay those taxes myself after filing my tax return.&lt;p&gt;The employer worked with a big-ish professional services company who did all the necessary payroll and paperwork for them.&lt;p&gt;Overall it was super smooth and except the taxes nothing was different than working for a Germany company. But I know that the ease of hiring really depends on each country, and I know that the company was only considering opening up remote positions in countries where there was an ample talent pool, basically where they could except to hire enough people to be worth it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>I wonder how this works tax- and social security-wise. Normally, the employer must pay social security in the country where the employee is physically located. Also the employer must adhere to any employment laws for that country.&lt;p&gt;At least that’s what HR tells me in my current job, as a reason why they won’t let me go full remote.&lt;p&gt;Are they right? How are full-remote companies handling this?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Context is EU&amp;#x2F;UK.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote-first companies that actively hire</title><url>https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jobvandervoort</author><text>If you hire someone in another country, you (employer) must fully comply with local labor laws, tax requirements, run payroll and pay any local dues in local currency.&lt;p&gt;This is only solved by either setting up a local office and hire local experts yourself, or working with an employer of record.&lt;p&gt;Source: I&amp;#x27;m the CEO of Remote.com and we do this for other companies across the world, and run all our own entities and compliance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>I wonder how this works tax- and social security-wise. Normally, the employer must pay social security in the country where the employee is physically located. Also the employer must adhere to any employment laws for that country.&lt;p&gt;At least that’s what HR tells me in my current job, as a reason why they won’t let me go full remote.&lt;p&gt;Are they right? How are full-remote companies handling this?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Context is EU&amp;#x2F;UK.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote-first companies that actively hire</title><url>https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list</url></story>