How Taxmora calculates your take-home pay
The rules, sources and limits behind Taxmora’s five-country take-home pay calculator for Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Not tax advice.
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Cross-border tax knowledge
Plain-English guides to the rules behind the calculator - what each country actually applies, what the engine covers, and where the honest limits are. Every guide is written against the same rule modules the calculator runs, so the numbers you read about are the numbers you get.
The Netherlands 30% ruling (2026): who qualifies and what it actually saves
How the Dutch 30% ruling works in 2026: eligibility criteria, the salary threshold, what it means for take-home pay, and the honest limits of any online calculation.
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Spain’s Beckham Law: the 24% flat tax for new arrivals, with real numbers
How Spain’s special expat regime (régimen Beckham, Art. 93 LIRPF) works: 24% flat tax, who qualifies, the 6-month deadline, and a real €80,000 take-home comparison.
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Portugal’s IFICI (NHR 2.0): the 20% flat rate that replaced the NHR
Portugal’s IFICI regime (NHR 2.0): 20% flat tax on eligible employment income, who qualifies in 2026, how it differs from the old NHR, and real take-home numbers.
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Moving to the UK: the Statutory Residence Test and the four-year FIG regime
How UK tax residency is decided (Statutory Residence Test) and how the new FIG regime taxes arrivals from 2025-26 — with real £80,000 take-home numbers from the engine.
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What a salary is really worth in Germany: income tax and social security, with real numbers
German take-home pay explained: progressive EStG brackets, social-security ceilings, the solidarity surcharge, and real €60,000 / €80,000 net-salary numbers from the 2026 engine.
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Spain vs Portugal for remote workers: what your salary is really worth after tax
€80,000 computed both ways: Spain vs Portugal take-home pay under standard rules and arrival regimes (Beckham vs IFICI), with the foreign-income asymmetry most guides skip.
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The 183-day rule in Europe: how five countries actually decide you’re a tax resident
The 183-day rule is not a magic line. How Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK really decide tax residency — plus the treaty tiebreaker and the social-security trap.
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Remote work for a foreign employer from Europe: where the tax actually lands
You live in Europe, your employer is abroad. Where income tax and social security really fall, why employers refuse, and what a resident salary nets in DE/NL/PT/ES/UK.
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