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The FIRE Exit
The Europe atlas

Europe Atlas income and cross-border tax data

Structured status fields for investment sales, dividends, crypto, pensions, owner-company income and the values used after a move across the 34-country Europe Atlas. Detailed rates, conditions and source links remain on the country pages.

What's in it

One row per country: cost of living, legacy Atlas patterns, five income-treatment statuses, four arrival-basis statuses, the three published income-filter classifications, residence doors, citizenship clock, verification date and first source.

Status fields describe standard comparison cases, not anyone's final tax rate. They do not combine tax already taken abroad, treaty relief, wealth tax, social contributions or a person's other income.

34 countries · 2026-07-21 edition · as of July 2026

The files

The stable names always serve the current edition; the stamped names never change, so a citation can pin the edition it used. The CSVs open with a few #-comment lines carrying the license and the stamp. Tell your parser (pandas: comment='#').

How to cite it

The citation line

The FIRE Exit — FIRE-in-Europe dataset, 2026-07-21 edition, https://thefireexit.com/data

The license, in plain English

CC BY-NC 4.0: use it, chart it, quote it, teach with it, with attribution. No commercial reuse, and no republishing it (or a substantial extract of it) as a dataset or service of your own: the maker's rights under the EU database directive are asserted. If you want something the license doesn't cover, just ask.

The full licence deed, CC BY-NC 4.0

Posters

Two charts drawn straight from this dataset, sized for feeds and print. Edition, sources and caveats are on the image itself. Same terms as the data: free for charts, articles, research and teaching, with the credit.

Ranked horizontal chart of 31 European countries. A green vertical line marks the EU-average €2,500 monthly household-consumption basket. Iceland and Switzerland are highest at about €4,340 and €4,280 a month, implying ×30 portfolios of about €1.56m and €1.54m. Bulgaria and Romania are lowest at about €1,560 and €1,630, implying about €562k and €587k. Portugal is €2,170 a month and €781k at ×30. The chart warns that national price levels are not rent quotes. The EU-average line carries its own ×30 figure: €900,000.

A €2,500-a-month EU-average life, repriced across Europe

31 countries · 2025 price levels

Matrix of 31 European countries. Rows are grouped into six countries with an annual tax on holdings, Belgium as one nuanced threshold case, and 24 countries without an annual net wealth tax. Five columns mark tax on unsold fund gains, holding relief, exit tax, newcomer regimes and passive-income visas. Green checked squares mean the pattern is present; grey dots mean it is not tagged. The chart explicitly says the marks are not a score and that thresholds and exceptions live in the country sources.

Europe's tax map for a long-term fund investor

Hold, leave, arrive · statuses, not rates · verified July 2026

As of July 2026. The live, maintained version and its changelog: What changed on the map

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