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Each country, with roughly how many days. Start with the one where you spent the most.
Why we ask
Where you spend your days can differ from where you are taxed today, and the day count decides where you may already owe tax.
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Unsure which income type?
Most freelancers, designers, writers and developers use Client / freelance work. Creator money goes here too: brand deals and sponsorships, Patreon and memberships, course and digital-product sales, affiliate income, YouTube and ad revenue, newsletter subscriptions. If you earn it from your audience or your clients rather than from a registered company, it belongs in Client / freelance work. Money your own company earns and keeps goes in Business / company profit. A book, song, film or patent that pays you royalties goes in Royalties / IP. Crypto and share gains go in Capital gains. If you only have one kind, just fill one row.
How your income gets taxed
Your income is usually taxed where you live. Salary, dividends, investment gains and interest are taxed personally, in your own name, at your country's rates. Some kinds (freelance work, royalties and your own company's profit) can instead be earned through a company, which in some places is taxed more gently. Either way, the everyday costs of running your work come off first, so you're only taxed on what's left. Pick a setup on the right and we show what each one would really cost you.
What your royalties come from
Some countries give their low IP rate only to certain work, so we use it only when yours counts; creative work rarely qualifies.
Total €0 / yr
Money you spend to run the business (tools, contractors, travel) comes off before tax, so you're taxed on what's left.
Total amount you're taxed on€0
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Optional. Turn a region on to steer the ranking; leave everything off to see the whole world.
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This is the last thing we need. Choose, and we'll work out where you'd keep the most.
I have a partner with their own income
we model them separately, not merged into your numbers
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Want to go deeper?
A sale, raise, inheritance or windfall ahead can change the best move and its timing. Add yours and the engine shows what it would mean; the precise multi-entity routing is part of The Master Plan.
Run the company for real from the company country
a real office, a manager, staff. This is what stops your home country taxing the company as if it never left.
Some countries let you buy your way in
Places like Greece, Italy, Monaco and a few Caribbean islands only let you settle if you bring serious capital, so by default we keep them out of your picks. If you have it, tell us your total assets and we'll add the ones you'd qualify for.

You decide

Mix and match your own build: pick where you live and, if you want one, where your company sits, and see the numbers for exactly that.
Income source
Income
Add your income on the left to begin
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Companyoptional · only if it helps
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Tax residence
Skipped · hidden by you
Current status
Your build
Tax rate
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the rate the law puts your next euro in
Effective tax rate
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after deductions, incl. health & social
Your build
Appears when you run your numbers

Deep planning, multi-entity strategies PRO

Holding companies, trusts, and two-country setups (one company that owns another) are part of The Master Plan. This free board already gives you the sourced core, where to incorporate and where to reside. The Master Plan layers the advanced setups on top and gives you your full sourced plan to keep. Guardrail, opening soon, will then watch the rules your setup depends on and email you when something changes.

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We decide

Our ranking for you, ordered by the Tax Monkey pick: not tax alone, but how movable each place actually is (visas, how easy it is to settle) weighed on top of the tax. Cost of living and livability are coming next.
"Full move" means you and your company both become tax-resident there; a personal-only setup shows as "receive personally (no company)."
Sources behind the selected structure
Tax Monkey · research preview · every figure here comes from our checked engine, not a rough calculator. Countries we haven't finished checking are held back and never recommended, even when their numbers look better. This is information to plan with, not advice; the deep report models your exact assets and what you'd owe on leaving.

Your days

Slide to your best estimate of the days in the last 12 months. Countries count days in their own tax year, so treat this as a guide, not a count down.

120 days
1365 days
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Tax Monkey provides verified information for research and planning, not legal or tax advice. Confirm any decision with a qualified lawyer or accountant before acting.