How should a receipt of a tax nomad be formatted?

Question

I understand that the concept of a "tax nomad"; i.e, a freelance who works with a laptop and relocating to different countries gradually (say, once a year or once in two years) is becoming more prevalent as time goes by as part of globalization.

A tax nomad is still expected, at least by its clients, to give them receipts for works done for them and that they already paid for (say, by Paypal or Bank transfer or Western Union), but because a tax nomad's receipt isn't formatted per the demands of a given country's taxation authority guidelines, one can wonder how should a receipt of tax nomad be formatted or be read like.

How should a receipt of a tax nomad be formatted?
A similar question would be, what do all receipts of all states in this planet share in common?

_{My question relates to both provider-company and provider-person interactions.}

Answer 1

I Wish this platform had a way to share documents/excels via source code, but here is an image example of what I use as a universal bill.

Type/format the following in a rich text document Document and you should be ready to go.

Notes

• I've been using this format to receive payments from all across the globe including the US, EU nations, and various Asian countries.

• Any audits at my end are served by these invoice records which match the payments received, and the same invoices also serve at the client end as payment outgo's.

• I had no issues reported by any of the global clients over the last 8 years.

Answer 2

If my company hires an entity, they will want proof that they could deduct the relevant payment from their profits (from their VAT bill etc.) and they will want proof that it was legal to hire this entity.

So, they will want a bill providing that - and if the entity didn't supply that bill, they may not pay it.

They will only pay the entity in a way that they have proof of payment so the entity won't be able take them to court to make them pay twice.
Also, they might only require receipts in a format that their tax office accepts.

Where the entity is located doesn’t make much difference to the company hiring it.

Answer 3

Sorry to put a damper on things, but you generally need to be aware of the laws of the applicable to doing business with your customers wherever you are and they are.

For example, if you sell things to people in the state of Texas, the state of Texas will expect you to collect sales and use tax and remit that to the state government.

If you do business with a company in Saudi Arabia, they will be expected to pay a withholding tax on your behalf.

If you do business with most countries in Europe, you'll need to understand the VAT requirements and whether you need to collect and remit VAT it not.

The simplest option is probably to find a platform like the Apple store that handles these things for you.