Data changelog

Dataset status

Read from the data files themselves at build time. “Next review” is when the dataset is scheduled to be re-read against its sources; tax-year data turns over with the January update.

Scheduled reviews

• Scheduled November 15, 2026

  Quarterly check of partner prices quoted on the site (insurance, payment and accounting services) against the providers’ published pricing

• Scheduled December 15, 2026

  Re-check the 2027 Dutch parameters against the Staatscourant after the Senate vote

• Scheduled January 5, 2027

  2027 update: new-year tax parameters for every country, the three wage-linked visa thresholds, FX, and the Eurostat December release

Log

1. Correction October 18, 2026

   Spain nomad-visa threshold now assessed on the annualised SMI the UGE applies: €2,849, not the consulate-stated €2,442

   Before

   €2,442 — 200% of the plain monthly SMI of €1,221, as the Washington consulate page states

   After

   €2,849 — 200% of €1,221 × 14 payments ÷ 12 = €1,424.50, the basis the UGE applies; the consulate figure stays in the dataset as the lower bound, and family uplifts move to €1,068.38 / €356.13

   Two official sources give two numbers. The consulate page we cited computes 200% of the plain monthly SMI (€2,442). The UGE’s own FAQ (question 19) states the percentage only — no euro figure and no 12- or 14-payment rule — and immigration practitioners consistently report it assessing the annualised monthly value (€1,221 × 14 ÷ 12), which also reproduces the widely reported 2025 figure of €2,762. Because the UGE decides in-Spain applications and a €407 shortfall there means refusal, the checker now tests against the higher basis, and the guide explains why both figures exist. The discrepancy surfaced while reading immigration-law commentary that called our figure wrong; the correction records both sources rather than picking one silently.

   Dataset: Digital nomad visa income thresholds, 7 countries (2026) . Visible on: Digital Nomad Visa Income Checker (2026), digital nomad visa income requirements 2026 . Source: bibliovirtual.inclusion.gob.es

2. Update October 14, 2026

   Quarterly FX refresh from ECB and National Bank of Georgia reference rates

   Before

   USD 1.1435, SGD 1.4765 per EUR; GEL 2.6327 per USD, 3.01 per EUR (17 July)

   After

   USD 1.1188, SGD 1.4319 per EUR (ECB 13 October); GEL 2.5989 per USD, 2.9074 per EUR (NBG 14 October)

   Rates are indicative and refreshed quarterly; they exist to make cross-currency comparisons consistent, not to price a transfer. The AED peg (3.6725 per USD) is unchanged. Next refresh: January 2027.

   Dataset: FX reference rates — ECB, National Bank of Georgia, CBUAE peg . Visible on: Freelancer Net Income Comparison (5 Countries), International Payment Fee Calculator (2026), Digital Nomad Visa Income Checker (2026) . Source: www.ecb.europa.eu

3. Verified — no change September 21, 2026

   Belastingplan 2027 (Prinsjesdag) checked: every 2026 Dutch figure holds; 2027 parameters captured for the January update

   The 2027 tax plan was read on publication. It contains no retroactive 2026 change, so the live dataset stands. The 2027 rates, bracket limits, credit tables and the €900 zelfstandigenaftrek were recorded for the January update and will be re-checked against the Staatscourant after the Senate vote in December.

   Dataset: Netherlands — ZZP income tax, credits and Zvw (2026) . Visible on: Netherlands ZZP Tax Calculator 2026, netherlands zzp taxes explained 2026 .

4. Verified — no change August 1, 2026

   Dutch deduction tapering and Canadian CPP deduction/credit split confirmed from the statutes — no change

   Two formulas had been implemented from guidance pages and were due a cross-check against official simulators that require a login. Instead both were read from the law itself: Wet IB 2001 art. 2.10 lid 2 for the Dutch tariefsaanpassing (11.94% × min(income − €78,426, deductions)), and Income Tax Act ss. 60(e), 60(e.1) and 118.7 for which parts of self-employed CPP are a deduction and which a credit. Both implementations matched the statute exactly.

   Datasets: Netherlands — ZZP income tax, credits and Zvw (2026), Canada — federal and provincial income tax, CPP (2026) . Visible on: Netherlands ZZP Tax Calculator 2026, Canada Self-Employed Tax Calculator 2026 .

5. Verified — no change July 31, 2026

   British Columbia lowest rate confirmed at 5.60% after two CRA tables disagreed; Singapore GST threshold confirmed at S$1 million

   Two CRA pages implied different lowest rates for British Columbia (5.06% and 5.60%). The derived constants in the payroll formulas only reconcile with 5.60%, and the province’s own announcement (17 February 2026) confirms it — the January table simply predated the announcement. No change to the dataset.

   Singapore’s GST registration threshold was checked directly on IRAS, which renders its figures client-side and had resisted automated reading: S$1 million under both the retrospective and prospective tests, as the dataset already said.

   Datasets: Canada — federal and provincial income tax, CPP (2026), Singapore — resident and non-resident income tax, GST (2026) . Visible on: Canada Self-Employed Tax Calculator 2026, vat gst registration thresholds 2026 .

6. Correction July 31, 2026

   Newfoundland and Labrador basic personal amount was the January figure; raised retroactively in April

   Before

   $11,188

   After

   $13,094 (announced 2026-04-29, effective 1 January 2026)

   The dataset had been built from the January edition of CRA’s payroll formulas; the July edition’s “what’s new” lists a retroactive increase announced in April. With the change, the province with the lowest basic personal amount becomes Nova Scotia ($11,932), and the sentences that said otherwise were rewritten. Lesson: for Canada, read the mid-year edition — in-year announcements apply retroactively.

   Dataset: Canada — federal and provincial income tax, CPP (2026) . Visible on: Canada Self-Employed Tax Calculator 2026, canada self employed taxes explained 2026 . Source: www.canada.ca

7. Added July 30, 2026

   Eurostat 2025 price level indices for 39 countries, generated from the SDMX-CSV feed

   The indices are pulled from Eurostat’s SDMX 2.1 endpoint as CSV and converted by script, not retyped. The generator asserts the six values Eurostat quoted in its own press release (Denmark 140, Ireland 136, Luxembourg 132, Bulgaria 63, Romania 65, Poland 73); a run that disagrees with the press release fails. Next Eurostat release: December 2026.

   Dataset: Eurostat — price level indices, 39 countries (2025) . Visible on: Cost of Living Adjusted Salary Converter . Source: ec.europa.eu

8. Added July 30, 2026

   All 15 common-regime regional IRPF scales added from the AEAT manual, with an arithmetic check that caught a misread

   The scales are generated by script from the AEAT tables, and the generator asserts the cumulative-tax identity on every row (each row’s cuota must equal the previous cuota plus bracket width × rate). The first reading of La Rioja failed that check — a column had shifted — and was corrected before anything was published. Three regions measured earlier had suggested Madrid is cheapest everywhere; the full set shows that depends on income.

   Dataset: Spain — regional IRPF scales, 15 common-regime regions (2025 tax year) . Visible on: spain autonomo regional tax differences 2026, Spain Autónomo Tax Calculator (2026) . Source: sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es

9. Added July 29, 2026

   Nomad visa income thresholds for 7 countries, with the 1 January 2026 changes in Spain and Portugal

   Before

   widely published: Spain €2,368, Portugal €3,480

   After

   Spain €2,442 (200% of SMI, RD 126/2026), Portugal €3,680 (4 × RMMG, DL 139/2025)

   Three of the seven thresholds (Spain, Portugal, Croatia) are multiples of a national wage figure that resets each January, so they moved on 1 January 2026 while most published tables kept the old values. Each threshold is stored with the anchor value and the gazette reference it derives from, so the January update is a one-line change per country.

   Dataset: Digital nomad visa income thresholds, 7 countries (2026) . Visible on: Digital Nomad Visa Income Checker (2026), digital nomad visa income requirements 2026 . Source: www.boe.es

10. Added July 29, 2026

    Payment-fee dataset added — only figures a provider publishes as fixed are stored; everything else is an input

    Provider fees are not gazette data: they change without notice and some are never published at all. So the dataset stores only what a provider fixes in its own fee schedule (PayPal’s international commercial rate of 4.99% + $0.49 and its 4% currency-conversion spread). Wise’s “from 0.57%” is a floor, so its rate is an input with only the no-markup policy recorded; a bank’s FX margin is an input because no bank publishes one — which is the reason the calculator exists. The schedule is re-read quarterly with the partner price check.

    Dataset: Payment providers — published fee schedules (2026) . Visible on: International Payment Fee Calculator (2026) . Source: www.paypal.com

11. Correction July 29, 2026

    Spain regional variation was understated in the page text

    Before

    "one to three points" of regional variation

    After

    combined top rates from 45% (Madrid) to 54% (Comunitat Valenciana); about €260 at €30,000 and €2,715 at €100,000

    The calculator’s figures were right; the sentence describing how much your region changes them was not. Measured against the AEAT regional scales for Madrid, Cataluña and Valencia, the spread is far larger than the text claimed, and the dearest region changes with income. The FAQ on the same page had been correct all along — the lesson is to derive repeated numbers from the dataset rather than restate them by hand.

    Dataset: Spain — autónomo IRPF and RETA quotas (2026) . Visible on: Spain Autónomo Tax Calculator (2026) . Source: sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es

12. Correction July 20, 2026

    Georgia 3% rate applies from the month the ₾500,000 cap is crossed, not only to the excess

    Before

    3% on turnover above ₾500,000

    After

    3% on all income from the start of the month the cumulative turnover crosses ₾500,000, through year end

    Article 90(2) of the Tax Code, read in the official English translation, applies the higher rate to the whole of the crossing month and every month after it, not to the excess alone. On ₾700,000 of evenly spread turnover the tax moves from ₾11,000 to ₾11,667. The calculator now estimates the crossing month from an even monthly turnover and says so in its result.

    Lesson recorded: verify how a rule operates, not just the rate.

    Dataset: Georgia — Small Business Status, 1%/3% (2026) . Visible on: Georgia Small Business Status Calculator (1%), georgia 1 percent tax complete picture . Source: matsne.gov.ge

13. Added July 20, 2026

    Dubai take-home dataset added — housing fee, ILOE, gratuity and the corporate tax threshold for natural persons

    Zero income tax is the easy part; the dataset records what a Dubai resident actually pays — the 5% municipality housing fee, ILOE insurance, VAT, end-of-service gratuity — and the corporate-tax rules that reach freelancers above AED 1 million of revenue. The housing fee was confirmed on two official pages (the Dubai Municipality portal and DEWA’s bill explanation) before it was used.

    Dataset: UAE — Dubai take-home: housing fee, ILOE, gratuity, corporate tax (2026) . Visible on: Dubai Take-Home Pay Calculator (2026) . Source: housingfees.dm.gov.ae

14. Added July 20, 2026

    Estonia e-resident company dataset added — state fees, distribution tax and withholding on board fees

    State fees and taxes were taken from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board and the official e-Residency knowledge base. One figure differed between the two official pages; the discrepancy was noted at verification rather than silently resolved. Market service costs (accounting, address) are inputs, not data, because no authority publishes them.

    Dataset: Estonia — e-resident company fees and taxes (2026) . Visible on: Estonia e-Resident Company Cost Calculator (2026) . Source: www.emta.ee

15. Verified — no change July 19, 2026

    Portugal 2026 IRS brackets, simplified-regime coefficients and social security checked against CIRS and the ISS guide — no change

    Every figure in the Portugal dataset was read back against the consolidated CIRS articles on Portal das Finanças and the ISS practical guide for independent workers. Nothing changed. The solidarity surtax bands were later confirmed to be lower-bound (“over”) bands rather than cumulative ones when the published guide figures were reproduced from the calculator functions.

    Dataset: Portugal — IRS and social security for freelancers (2026) . Visible on: Portugal Freelancer Tax Calculator (2026) .

16. Correction July 19, 2026

    Spain hard-to-justify expenses allowance is 5%, not 7%

    Before

    7% of net income

    After

    5% of net income (7% applied to 2023 only)

    The AEAT page states the allowance as 5%, with 7% for 2023 only. Many guides still quote 7%. The calculator now applies 5% and its FAQ explains why other figures differ.

    Dataset: Spain — autónomo IRPF and RETA quotas (2026) . Visible on: Spain Autónomo Tax Calculator (2026) . Source: sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es

17. Correction July 19, 2026

    Spain RETA monthly quotas for tramos 7–14 were 2023 values

    Before

    tramo 11: €370/month (€380.85 with MEI)

    After

    tramo 11: €440/month (€452.94 with MEI)

    The first draft of the Spain dataset took its quota table from a secondary summary that had updated the lower six tramos but not the upper eight. Checked against Orden PJC/297/2026 in the BOE, tramos 7–14 were replaced with the published 2026 figures. The gap was up to about €864 a year for an autónomo in those bands. The official Import@ss simulator later returned the corrected tramo-11 figure to the cent.

    Rule adopted from this: table-shaped data is taken from the gazette or the authority’s own page, never from a summary.

    Dataset: Spain — autónomo IRPF and RETA quotas (2026) . Visible on: Spain Autónomo Tax Calculator (2026), Freelancer Net Income Comparison (5 Countries) . Source: www.boe.es