

I’ll offer a near miss.
Chat amongst colleagues over a coffee, the topic was something very normal and mundane: how lazy are we about cooking.
My colleague Carol said, “sometimes I just throw some chicken nuggets in the toaster because I don’t care or have the energy”
My response I intercepted between the brain and mouth: “living the bachelor lifestyle, carol?”
Carol’s husband had died quite suddenly 6 months prior. I didn’t fuck up, but I almost did and it haunts me still over a decade later.
More specifically, you pay tax first to the country where the income was generated, and are usually tax liable to the country you are resident in.
Typically taxation treaties prevent double taxation, but the net result is you will usually get hit with the equivalent of the highest tax across jurisdictions.