The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup 313: El Salvador: Is This Emerging Latin American Country Worth The Hype?
TODAY’S EL SALVADOR TRIP REPORT:
- Hear about the good (I’m still thinking about the pupusas!), the bat (that’s not a typo…), and the ugly of my hotel and Airbnb stays in El Salvador.
- Listen in for the inside scoop on some of the quite frankly terrible things I learned about El Salvador for expats, which mostly centers around the unfavourable tax situation.
- What about the visas? Tune in as I discuss all the available options for expats to live legally in El Salvador.
- Is Bukele really going to be giving out 5,000 “free passports,” as he proclaimed in a tweet? Hear what my El Salvadoran insiders had to say.
- How does the proposed $1 million “Freedom Visa” stack up to other regional citizenship-by-investment programs? Hear my thoughts on this pricey offer.
- What about company structures? I dissect whether El Salvador could be a viable option for forming offshore companies.
- How does El Salvador’s banking system stack up to its neighbours? Discover what I learned about finance in the nation.
- Lastly, hear my final analysis of whether El Salvador could serve as a potential Plan-B destination for expats.
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