TL;DR — Key Takeaways
- →Add countries to your watch list via autocomplete — alerts for those countries are prioritized.
- →Tax tab: rates, regimes, treaties. Residency tab: visa rules, day-count changes.
- →Each alert card includes a source link to the official regulation.
- →Mark All as Read clears your inbox without deleting alerts — they remain filterable.
- →Start with your home country and any countries you're currently based in or considering.
The Alerts page is where tax and residency law changes surface for the countries you care about. This tutorial walks through setting up your watch list and reading the alert feed.
What you'll have by the end: a watch list configured for your key countries and an understanding of how to work through your alert inbox.
Prerequisites
Dashboard preferences should be set, particularly home country and citizenship. No trip data is required for this tutorial.
Step 1 — Navigate to Alerts
From the left sidebar, click Alerts. You'll see the main Alerts page with two tabs at the top: Tax and Residency.
Alerts page showing the two-tab layout with Tax and Residency tabs, and an alert feed below with sample notification cards
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Step 2 — Explore the Two Alert Types
The Tax tab shows changes to income tax rates, special regimes, treaty updates, and deduction rule changes. The Residency tab shows visa law changes, day-count threshold modifications, and nomad visa program updates.
Click each tab to see what's in your current feed. On a fresh account with no watch list, you'll see a broad global feed.
Tax tab showing a sample alert card expanded with a country flag, date, summary text, and a View Source link
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Step 3 — Add Countries to Your Watch List
Scroll to the Watch List section. In the autocomplete search field, type a country name. Click the suggestion when it appears. The country appears as a chip below the search field. Add your home country, any countries you're currently based in, and any you're seriously considering.
Watch list section with the autocomplete open showing search results, and two or three country chips already added below
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Step 4 — Review Your Watched Countries
Your watch list chips appear in a row. Each chip shows the country flag and name. Click the x on any chip to remove that country. Your alert feed now prioritizes alerts from watched countries.
Watch list chips row showing four or five country chips, with the remove button visible on one of them
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Step 5 — Read an Alert Card
Click any alert to expand it. Each card shows the country, date, a plain-English summary of the change, and a source link to the official regulation or announcement. Read the summary, click the source link if you want the legal text, then decide if this affects your situation.
Expanded alert card showing country header, date, full summary text, and a View Source link at the bottom
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Step 6 — Mark Alerts as Read
Click Mark All as Read to clear your inbox when you've reviewed your alerts. Dismissed alerts remain accessible via filter — de-prioritized, not deleted.
Mark All as Read button visible at the top of the feed, with an unread count badge next to it
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What's Next
For US citizens, the FEIE / FTC Optimizer tutorial is the natural next step — where you turn the tax rules you're tracking into an actual filing strategy.