Who we are
TaxFreeResidency.com is a tax-residency consultancy. We help individuals and families relocate their tax residency to one of the 28 jurisdictions we cover — legally, fully disclosed, and with the kind of paper trail that survives an audit by your previous tax authority.
We are not a visa agency, a property promoter, or a citizenship-by-investment broker. Most of our clients arrive having spoken to one of those first, and they come to us when the question shifts from “how do I get this visa?” to “will this actually solve my tax problem?” Those are different questions, and they get different answers.
This site exists because the public information on tax-free residency is unusually bad. It is either marketing copy from people who earn a commission on whichever program you choose, blog posts that haven’t been updated since 2022, or oversimplified “move to Dubai” videos that ignore exit tax, the Common Reporting Standard, and the 183-day rule. We built this resource as the document we wished existed when we started doing this work.
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What we believe
A few principles shape every piece of advice we give. They are easy to state and harder to live by, especially in an industry where most of the money is on the other side of the table.
Tax-first, lifestyle-second
The dominant style in this industry is to lead with the lifestyle pitch — sun, beaches, golf, low cost of living — and then bolt on a tax claim that may or may not survive the first hour with a competent accountant. We invert that. We start from the tax position you want to be in three years from now and reverse-engineer the jurisdiction, structure, and exit sequence that gets you there. If the resulting answer is Lisbon and not Dubai, fine. If it is Asunción and not Monaco, also fine. The tax outcome leads.
Current data, sourced
The relevant programs change constantly. In the eighteen months before this site was built, the UK ended its Non-Dom regime, Portugal closed NHR and replaced it with the much narrower IFICI, Italy raised its flat tax to €300,000, Malta shut down its CBI, Andorra discontinued its Digital Nomad Visa, Cyprus reformed its non-dom rules, Oman relaunched its Golden Visa, and Turkey proposed a 20-year foreign-income holiday. If you researched residency before 2025 your information is probably wrong. Every country page on this site carries a “last updated” stamp and an explicit source list. When something changes, we revise — and you can see when we last touched it.
No CBI hard-sell
Citizenship by Investment is a legitimate tool in some cases — Vanuatu for a fast second passport, St. Kitts & Nevis for Caribbean optionality — but it is rarely the optimal tax move. It is, however, the most profitable product for the consultant: large fees, large commissions from licensed agents, fast close. We will tell you when residency alone solves your problem and citizenship is unnecessary, even though that is the smaller engagement for us. Roughly four out of five clients who arrive asking about CBI leave with a residency-only plan.
Compliance-aware
CRS, FATCA, Controlled Foreign Corporation rules, treaty tie-breakers, exit taxes, and disclosed-but-non-resident bank accounts are all part of every plan we build. We do not work in the “loophole” lane. When a structure depends on something not being noticed by a tax authority, that structure is not a structure — it is a time bomb on a longer fuse than you realise. The worldwide trend is toward more transparency, not less, and the plans we build are designed for that world.
Honest about what we don’t know
We tell you when you need a local CPA in the destination country. We tell you when a question — say, an unusual US state-tax exit problem, or a dispute with a specific German Finanzamt — is outside our scope. There are advisors who will quote on anything; we are not those advisors. The cost of taking a job we are not fit for is much higher to you than the cost of a referral.
How we work
A typical engagement runs in three phases. We will tell you up front which phases are relevant for you, and we will not push past phase one if your situation does not need it.
Phase 1 — Strategy
A 30-minute free scoping call to understand your current tax position, household, income mix, citizenship, and target outcome. If we are a fit, we move into a paid strategy phase: a detailed written analysis comparing two to four candidate jurisdictions against your specific tax position, including modelled three-year tax outcomes and a sequenced exit-and-arrival plan. Most clients leave this phase with a clear answer and the option to execute it themselves, with their existing local accountant, or with us.
Phase 2 — Application
If we execute, we run the application end-to-end: document checklist, apostilles and translations, government filings, in-country agent coordination, follow-up with case officers, and the final residency card or permit in your hand. Timelines vary widely — anywhere from five business days for Vanuatu CBI to eighteen months for some EU Golden Visas — and we are explicit about the realistic window for your chosen program before any money changes hands.
Phase 3 — Settlement
The phase most consultancies skip. After you have the residency permit, the work is not done: you still have to actually become tax resident, sever your prior tax residency, open compliant banking, and address any remaining home-country obligations. We coordinate with local accountants, bankers, and lawyers in both countries to close out the prior residency and establish the new one with a clean documentary trail. This is where most DIY plans fail audit two years later.
Who we serve
Our work concentrates around four client profiles. If you do not see yourself in one of these, you may still be a fit — but these are the situations where we add the most value.
- Entrepreneurs and business owners exiting high-tax EU, UK, US, or Australian environments — typically with $1M+ in liquid wealth or a profitable operating company. UAE, Italy €300K, Greece €100K, Cyprus, Singapore, Switzerland, and Monaco dominate this segment.
- Digital nomads earning $80K–$300K who need a clear tax base and the right to live in low-cost, high-quality places. Georgia, Thailand LTR, Bulgaria, Portugal IFICI, and Malta lead here.
- Retirees and passive-income earners protecting pension and investment income from home-country taxation. Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Malaysia MM2H, Panama, and Portugal D7 are the workhorses.
- Crypto founders and Web3 builders managing volatile capital gains under increasingly aggressive home-country tax authorities. UAE, Cayman, BVI, Vanuatu, and the new Cyprus 8% crypto rate are the current front-runners.
We do not work with clients seeking to evade existing tax debts, conceal assets, or backdate residency. Those are not problems a residency change solves.
What makes us different
Three things separate us from the typical operator in this space.
We are jurisdiction-agnostic. We do not own a property project in Antalya or a free-zone company in Dubai. We do not earn a referral fee from any specific developer. The only financial incentive we have is to give you the right answer so that you tell the next person, because most of our work comes through referral. That alignment shapes every recommendation.
We publish our reasoning. Every country page on this site shows the actual tax rates, the actual day-count rules, the actual costs, and the actual sources. There is no “contact us for the inside scoop.” Everything we know about a jurisdiction’s public program is on the page. Our paid work is the analysis and execution layered on top — not access to information you could otherwise find.
We turn down work. When a client’s situation is genuinely better served by their existing accountant and a single low-cost program — say, Paraguay residency for a sub-$200K-income remote worker — we say so. The same applies upward: when a $20M-net-worth founder needs a multi-jurisdictional structure with active tax-treaty navigation and an in-country tax counsel, we coordinate but defer to specialists. Right-sized engagements are good for everyone.
A note on jurisdiction
We are based in Europe and serve clients globally. Our written analysis is jurisdictional research and tax-position modelling — not a substitute for legal or accounting advice from a licensed professional in the relevant country. For every engagement we coordinate with appropriately licensed local advisors in both your origin and destination jurisdictions, and our written work names them explicitly.
For US persons specifically: the United States taxes by citizenship, not by residency, so moving abroad reduces but does not eliminate US federal tax exposure unless you renounce. We can model both paths (relocate-but-keep-citizenship vs. relocate-and-renounce) and refer renunciation work to specialist US international tax counsel. Read more in our tax residency vs citizenship explainer.
Frequently asked questions about working with us
Is the first call really free?
Yes. The 30-minute scoping call is free and carries no obligation to engage further. We use it to understand whether we are a useful fit; many clients find their answer in that conversation alone.
How are your fees structured?
A fixed fee for the strategy phase, then per-application fees for execution. We quote in writing after the scoping call and we do not take percentage cuts on government-fee or investment-amount line items.
Do you guarantee approval of a residency application?
No serious advisor can. What we can guarantee is that your application is complete, correct, filed in the right sequence, and accompanied by the right supporting documents — which is what determines approval in 95%+ of cases. Where there is genuine discretionary risk (certain Golden Visa due-diligence outcomes, for instance) we say so before you commit.
Can you help me become non-resident in my current country?
Often yes, but the work depends entirely on your origin jurisdiction. UK, German, Australian, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, and Canadian exits each have specific rules — and US exits are a separate specialty. We will tell you on the scoping call whether your origin-side work is something we handle directly or coordinate to a specialist.
I just want a recommendation — do I need consulting?
For a low-stakes situation (say, a remote worker earning under $150K with simple finances) the answer is often no — read the relevant country and persona pages, pick a program, and engage a local agent in the destination country. We are most useful when there is real money, complex assets, business structures, or a tricky exit situation involved.
Start with a free consultation
The honest test of whether we are useful to you is a short conversation. Bring your current tax position, your target outcome, and any prior research — we will tell you in 30 minutes whether the right move is to engage us, engage someone else, or do nothing for now.
Or browse the 16 zero-tax countries in 2026 overview, the strategic expatriation roadmap, or the full FAQ.
Last updated: 2026-04-26
Sources:
– PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries
– OECD — Common Reporting Standard
– Henley & Partners — Residence & Citizenship Programs
– IMI Daily — Investment Migration News