« | Home | »

Become A Permanent Tourist

Topics: Lifestyle & Culture | 4 CommentsBy admin | August 19, 2008

Who needs that pesky citizenship, anyway?

Tired of paying taxes and answering to some massively voyeuristic bunch of control freaks that some people call a government? Well, there’s an alternative. Forget being a Hobo or Freegan, now you can be a Permanent Tourist (or: Practically Transparent, Privacy Trained, Paranoid Taxdodger, Perpetual Traveler, etc.) by joining the ptClub. The club that’s not a club. In their words: “…ptClub is not a company. We have no base, no registered office, no mailing address, no phone number and none of the normal restrictions…” and “…In a nutshell, a PT merely arranges his or her paperwork in such a way that all governments consider him a tourist. The advantage: a PT is not subjected to taxes, military service, lawsuits, or persecution for partaking in innocent but forbidden pursuits or pleasures. Unlike most citizens or subjects, the PT will not be persecuted for his beliefs or lack of them…” Learn how to get a camouflage passport or do anonymous banking, among other things. Before you know it you’ll be meeting James Bond for a Vesper in your tax-free Bugatti.

Read Comments

  1. Posted by Mike Harmon on 08.19.08 1:01 am

    Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.

  2. Posted by roos on 08.19.08 9:39 am

    Is the ptculb looking for coffee? Seems like they’d need a lot of Roos Roast to maintain such standards?
    Lobster Butter Love
    Roos

  3. Posted by John Minock on 10.13.08 7:40 am

    I doubt the utility of the camouflage passports. When I mentioned them to a lawyer friend who travels a lot, he was able to name virtually all of the nonexistent countries used by the sellers.

    I expect customs officers around the world would be trained to watch for these fraudulent passports.

  4. Posted by admin on 10.13.08 7:51 am

    I imagine you’re right. In Kenya, I met a wildlife photographer who was ex-British military and occasionally did mercenary work. He used a completely legit passport all the time, but spent a lot of time making otherwise un-necessary trips to get his passport stamped in ways that suited his work visas and work/tax needs.