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🌍Tax Laws Changed While You Were in Bali. Here's How to Know First.

Portugal killed NHR. Spain tweaked the Beckham Law. Did you hear before or after you planned your move? Here's how to stay ahead.

May 15, 20265 min read

TL;DR β€” Key Takeaways

  • β†’Two alert types: Tax (rates, regimes, treaties) and Residency (visa rules, day-count changes).
  • β†’Add countries to your watch list β€” alerts for those countries are prioritized in your feed.
  • β†’Every alert links to its official source so you can verify the original regulation.
  • β†’Alerts fire for countries you're watching and for countries already connected to your residency log.
  • β†’Mark-all-as-read keeps your inbox manageable as law change volume picks up.

Portugal's Non-Habitual Resident regime ran for fourteen years. Then the government ended it β€” with a few months' notice, buried in a budget announcement. Nomads who had built their entire residency strategy around NHR found out through a Reddit thread, weeks after the fact.

Spain's Beckham Law has been modified twice in the last five years. Several countries that launched digital nomad visa programs with tax exemptions have since quietly removed those exemptions. Thailand's LTR visa tax rules changed mid-program.

Tax law changes don't make international headlines. They happen in local parliamentary sessions, in government gazette updates, in regulatory amendments that nobody translates until someone in a Slack channel asks "wait, did that change?"

If your strategy depends on a regime staying in place, you need to know the day it changes.

keepmore.money monitors tax and residency law changes across 60+ countries. Set up your watch list and get notified the day something changes.

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Two Types of Alerts

The Alerts system splits notifications into two tabs: Tax and Residency.

Tax alerts cover income tax rate changes, special regime modifications, treaty updates, deduction rule changes, and anything else that affects what you owe. If Portugal adjusts IFICI income thresholds or Germany changes its progressive bracket boundaries, it shows up here.

Residency alerts cover visa law changes, threshold modifications, and day-count rule updates. If a country's residency test shifts from 183 days to 90, or a nomad visa program closes applications, it shows up here.

The split matters because not every alert is relevant to every person. Someone country-hopping through Europe primarily cares about residency alerts. A US citizen building a long-term Portugal strategy cares intensely about Portuguese tax alerts and less about everything else.

Your Watch List

The watch list filters noise. You're not here to read alerts for 60 countries β€” you're here to track the ones that actually affect your situation.

Add countries through the autocomplete search. Portugal, Germany, Thailand β€” whatever you're watching. Your home country belongs on the list too, since tax changes back home affect your baseline even when you're abroad.

Alerts for countries on your watch list get surfaced first. The system also generates alerts for countries connected to your residency log, even if you haven't explicitly added them to your watch list.

What an Alert Looks Like

Each alert card shows the country, the date, the type of change, and a plain-English summary of what changed. Source links point to the official regulation or announcement β€” not a blog's summary of it, the original document.

Summaries are readable. "Portugal raised the IFICI income threshold from €35,000 to €40,000 effective January 2026" is what you see, not three paragraphs of statutory language.

When you've read an alert and decided whether it affects you, mark it read. Mark-all-as-read is there for when you've been in a flight-and-hostel stretch and come back to a full inbox.

The nomads who get hurt by law changes are the ones who were on a six-month old strategy when the rules changed. Two minutes to set up your watch list. Go do it.

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