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Global monetization? In Paraguay the math works: little or zero tax.

Immigration paperwork, tax exit, LLC, accounting in both countries, we handle it.

Two companies, one dashboardZero on foreign incomeEverything in the app
Creator recording content with a ring light and camera
The math · before any conversation

What hits zero, what doesn't, and what's left at year's end.

Separate your sources: that's exactly how the structure sees your revenue. It comes precalculated with an example; swap in your numbers and the result changes instantly. No signup, no e-mail.

US$
Monetization, platforms and brands from abroad, product sold to other countries.
US$
Brand and audience in your home country: a Brazilian brand's sponsorship, for example.
%
In Brazil, 27.5% is the top of the personal bracket and a company usually lands between 6% and 16%. From another country? Use your own rate.
US$
Your own estimate: we don't charge this. It's 3 trips in year 1 and 1 per year after that.
Your yearly math

US$ 4.000/mo from abroad + US$ 900/mo from local source

The zero applies to foreign-source income. The math below is only about that: the local-source part shows in the box beside it, with no promise.

Todaytax of ~27.5% on income from abroad
US$ 13.200
Year 1 with the structuredocumentation + exit + LLC + accounting + 3 trips (starting at)
US$ 5.892
Year 2 onwardupkeep: LLC + Personal + 1 trip per year
US$ 2.096
Savings per yearUS$ 11.104 from year 2 onin year 1, US$ 7.308 (already net of the structure and the 3 trips)
When it starts to pay off~US$ 636/mo from abroadthat's where upkeep plus the trip drop below your current tax
What the zero doesn't coverUS$ 900/mo from local sourceBrand and audience in your home country follow that country's rule: it holds for Brazil and for any other. The design of that part is worked out in the conversation, case by case.

Simplified simulation, all in dollars: 3 trips in year 1 and 1 per year after that. Platforms and countries where you sell may withhold at source. This isn't tax advice: your case is calculated in the free conversation.

Confirm your source split with a managerThe conversation is free, over WhatsApp: the manager reviews your mix, points out what hits zero and what doesn't in your case, and sends you the order of the steps.
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Before we talk about the structure

How you get paid today, and why growing isn't fixing it.

Global audience, the structure of someone who just started. Nothing here is illegal, just expensive and exhausting. (The examples mention Brazil; the logic applies to any origin.)

Personal tax doesn't ask about the source

AdSense, sponsorships, memberships, courses: once it lands on you as an individual, it all goes into the same bracket. In Brazil, the carnê-leão hits 27.5% fast, and almost every country has its own version of that.

The regime you use wasn't built for this

A small company that can't hold the activity, a ceiling that bursts, a rule that shifts brackets, MEI and Simples in the Brazilian case. Every step up in growth turns into a meeting with the accountant.

The platform withholds, the exchange rate eats in

You earn in dollars and get paid in your currency with a spread, and tax lands on the full converted amount. Three bites out of the same payment.

The more you grow, the worse it gets

The audience doubles and your net income doesn't keep up. And each new revenue tier draws more attention from the tax authorities, scrutiny of creators has risen worldwide.

The problem isn't the content. It's a global audience trapped in a local structure. Below: what hits zero, what doesn't, within the law.

No fine print

The zero is real on foreign income,and it doesn't exist on income from your own country.

Paraguay taxes only what's earned inside it. Foreign-source income, for someone who is a tax resident here, pays no income tax, even when the money enters the country. But only with the full set:

1 · Immigration + tax residence here

The cédula alone isn't enough: your tax residence has to be ONLY here. If it stays in another country, you pay there.

2 · Company abroad: the US LLC

The one receiving the monetization, the platforms and the foreign brands is your LLC, with US accounting kept up to date.

3 · Foreign-source income

The zero applies to what comes from abroad. What's earned from a local source follows the local rule, here and in any country.

And the candor the market is missing

Brands and audiences from your home country are a local source, a Brazilian brand deal, for example: they're in no one's zero. That part gets its own design, worked out in the conversation.

Paraguayan cédula, RUC certificate and the US LLC certificate
The path of the money

From the platform to you, with no tax along the way.

The question almost no one answers properly. The design is simple, and each stage has a name:

1 · who pays you
Platforms and brands

YouTube monetization, membership platforms, international brands, courses sold abroad, all paying your LLC, not you as an individual.

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2 · where it stays
The company account, in the US

The money goes into your LLC's US bank account, in the company's name, with US accounting kept up to date.

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3 · how it reaches you
You bring it in as a dividend

Whenever you want, you distribute it and bring it to Paraguay. Foreign-source income, for a tax resident here: pays no income tax in Paraguay. The rule is territorial.

Changing ownership on the platforms (registering the company, the US form) takes a few days and has a set order. Nothing is switched off before the new end is already receiving, the monetization doesn't stop.

Who this page is for

If the audience pays in dollars,the design is the same.

Different formats, the same logic: whoever pays you is abroad, and each of these sources can flow into your LLC:

YouTube monetizationInternational brand dealsCourses sold abroadMembership platformsTwitch and livestreamsPaid newsletterContent licensingInternational affiliate marketingUGC for foreign brandsStreaming and musicStock imagery and presetsApps and templatesPodcast with foreign sponsorshipInternational marketplace

And the part that comes from your country's brands or audience isn't left unanswered: it's left without a promise. Its design is done case by case, in the free conversation, in Portuguese, Spanish or English, whichever you prefer.

The math that decides everything for those who live off recording

Three trips to set it up.After that, you record from wherever you want.

The honest answer has two parts: setting it up takes work, it's three trips in the first year. Keeping it up is light, Paraguayan immigration rules ask for one entry per year. Your set stays wherever you are.

3 trips
in the first year

What setup really requires: the three entries that build your complete structure. The manager tells you what gets resolved on each one before you buy a ticket.

1 day
every 12 months

Once it's set up, on temporary admission. One entry per year keeps your immigration base active.

1 day
every 3 years

After permanent residency. One entry every three years and your base stays alive.

The rule no one tells you: stay 183 days in a country and it can claim you, no Paraguayan residency prevents that. People who travel the world count the days, and we warn you in the first conversation, not later.
What stays in our hands

Four fronts, one contact, and you only worry about the content.

The market would have you hire four providers who don't talk to each other. Here the four fronts have a single owner:

Your immigration

Admission, cédula, renewal and permanent residency, with Romper's team and fleet.

Your tax residence

Formal exit from Brazil and a live Paraguayan base, the piece that holds up the zero.

Paraguayan accounting

RUC, filings and local obligations on time, every month.

US accounting

The LLC is opened and maintained by Romper; the bookkeeping in the US is handled by our partner firm, hired and coordinated by us. You always deal with us.

Your physical base · with a studio

The only firm you knowwith a studio inside its headquarters.

Romper's registered cowork is your fixed point on the map: a tax address for registrations and banks, a mailing address for correspondence, and when you pass through Asunción, Romper's studio is your recording spot.

Grupo Romper's recording studio
Grupo Romper's recording studio
Workstations at Grupo Romper's headquarters
Reception at Grupo Romper's headquarters
Facade of Grupo Romper's headquarters in Mariano Roque Alonso
Grupo Romper's fleet parked on the street by the headquarters
Who's behind your structure

Built by people whoalso live off an audience.

Romper's founder has a channel that 700,000 people follow, we know monetization, brand deals and platforms from the inside, because we live off it too. And behind the channel there's what the digital competitor doesn't have:

+6,000 clients

And +2,000 cases in the last year and a half, consistency that only volume builds.

Guarantee in the terms of use

Document in hand or your money back, written, public, on the site.

Our own structure

Headquarters, fleet and team in Paraguay, not an address rented for the photo.

700,000 follow

A reputation on public display every day, for years, not a bought ad.

300m² of our own headquarters4 vehicles in the fleet15+ people on the teamstudio at the headquarters

Real Romper clients. Video testimonials, never made-up text.

Gessica Lefebvre, immigration manager at Grupo Romper
Immigration managerFrom admission to permanent residency

She's the one who designs your structure in the free conversation, and answers for it afterward.

Amado Manchini, head accountant at Grupo Romper
Head accountantRUC, Personal and local obligations

He keeps your Paraguayan tax base alive, the piece that holds up the zero.

Aline Bavaresco, in charge of the tax exit
AlineTax exit

She handles the formal break with the tax authority, the part that decides whether the zero holds or not.

Marco Sotana, legal at Grupo Romper
Marco SotanaLegal

Contracts, terms and the legal side of both companies, Romper's team, not a freelance lawyer.

The difference you'll use every day

The whole structureinside one app.

You edit, post and reply from any time zone, your structure should work the same way. In the SOR, Romper's own system, you track everything: documents, deadlines, obligations for both sets of books, and your entries into the country.

  • Every step and deadline, visible in real time
  • Alerts before any due date: LLC, Personal, immigration
  • Documents in one place, no hunting for PDFs in your e-mail

Competitors run on spreadsheets and messages. A proprietary system, only here, it took roughly US$ 150k of investment so you don't depend on anyone remembering you.

Two screens of the SOR app: modules and main dashboard
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We're not rightfor every creator

Better to know now than once the structure is already built.

It makes sense for you if

  • A meaningful part of your revenue already comes from abroad: monetization, platforms, foreign brands
  • You want to stop getting everything paid to you as an individual
  • You'll make the move for real, tax exit and a base here
  • You want everything within the law, with each source in the right place

It doesn't make sense if

  • Your revenue is still almost all from your country's brands and audience
  • You expect to zero out everything, including Brazilian brand deals, without changing anything
  • You just want to open an LLC and keep living in Brazil
  • You expect a shortcut outside the law, here or there

The 10 questions content creators ask most

What this profile asks before building the structure. Whatever is specific to your case, the free conversation resolves.

Do AdSense and monetization really hit zero, or is it guru talk?
It's real, with the three pieces in place: immigration and tax residence ONLY in Paraguay, a company abroad (the US LLC) and foreign-source income. Paraguay is territorial, foreign income pays no tax here, not even when you bring the money in. Without the three pieces, it becomes guru fantasy: if your tax residence stays in another country, you pay there. Romper builds and sustains the whole set.
And brand deals from my own country (Brazilian ones, for example)?
Honestly: it's not part of the zero, it's local-source income, and local sources follow that country's rule, with or without a structure. This holds for Brazil and any other country. Anyone promising you zero on EVERYTHING is selling you a problem. What Romper does is separate: the foreign part hits zero; the Brazilian part gets its own design, worked out case by case in the conversation.
I sell a course in my country, through a platform there, what changes?
Selling to your own country's audience is a local source, the answer above applies. And each platform has its own registration and withholding rules for someone who stops being a resident. That's why this part has no off-the-page answer: it's designed per case, with the manager in the free conversation, before you touch any account.
Do I need to live in Paraguay?
No, and the rule is clear-cut: three trips in the first year to set it up; then, one day every 12 months on temporary admission and one day every 3 years after permanent residency. Mind the other half: for the zero to hold, your tax residence has to be only here, and the country where you spend too much time can claim you (the 183-day rule). The manager checks your itinerary in the conversation.
Do I lose monetization when I change ownership?
No, but the change has a set order. Platforms require a new company registration and a US form when the account holder stops being an individual, and that takes a few days. That's why nothing is switched off before the new end is already receiving. You keep posting; what changes is where the money goes.
Do people who do this get audited?
The ones who get flagged are those stuck in the middle: receiving foreign money as individuals without reporting it properly, or “moving” without a formal exit. The structure is the opposite of that: a formal break with the tax authority, a declared company, each source in its right place, all within the law. It's exactly what separates a real structure from a hack.
I'm not Brazilian, do you handle my tax exit?
No: the tax exit from your country is with a lawyer there. Everything else (immigration, Paraguayan tax residence, Personal, the LLC and both sets of books) is with Romper, in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
How much does it cost to maintain the structure per year?
Maintenance is light: US LLC US$ 1,297/year (in the 1st year, the formation is on Romper), and that amount covers everything the company needs, from setup to the annual US forms, plus Personal accounting US$ 399/year. No surprise fees. What you add to the total is the travel: three trips the first year, one per year after. The calculator above already factors all of that in.
Why you, and not an accountant who opens LLCs?
Because an LLC alone isn't a structure, it's a quarter of one. Without the right tax residence, the zero doesn't exist; and an LLC with a non-resident member has its own annual US obligations (an information return and beneficial-owner filing, with heavy penalties for missing them) that our package already includes. And there's what only Romper has for creators: the person who designs your structure also lives off an audience, and the headquarters has a studio.
How much does it cost to take the first step?
Nothing: the conversation with the immigration manager is free, over WhatsApp. You come away with your mix split out (what hits zero, what doesn't), the order, the costs and the trips. The button is right below.
Proof of delivery

Creators whoalready get paid from here.

People who live off AdSense, sponsorships and foreign brands, with their structure sorted.

Photos of clients with the document they earned
Photos of clients with the document they earned
Photos of clients with the document they earned
Photos of clients with the document they earned
Photos of clients with the document they earned
Photos of clients with the document they earned

The audience is already global.Now the structure needs to be too.

Message on WhatsApp, the conversation is free: the immigration manager splits out your mix, designs the structure with costs, order and trips, and puts together the ideal package for your case.