Move to Greece.
EU residency.
A flat tax if you qualify.

Not if you hold the permanent investor permit: Law 5100/2024 states that periods of absence are not a ground to refuse renewal, so the Golden Visa works as a standby residence. Financially independent persons and digital nomads are expected to live in Greece and the Migration Code allows a permit to be withdrawn for prolonged absence. Separately, if you spend fewer than 183 days a year in Greece and keep your home elsewhere you will usually not become Greek tax resident — which defeats the purpose for most people who move for the tax regimes.

Under art. 4 of the Income Tax Code you are resident if your permanent or principal residence, habitual abode or centre of vital interests is in Greece, or if you spend more than 183 days, cumulatively, in Greece in any 12-month period — residency then runs from your first day of presence. Purely touristic or medical stays of up to 365 days are excluded from the day count. A residence permit by itself does not make you tax resident.

Yes. Golden Visa holders can bring family members, who receive permits tied to the investor's. The financially independent person and digital nomad routes add 20% to the income test for a spouse or cohabitant and 15% per child, and dependants get their own permits without the right to work. Under the 5A flat tax, each relative you add costs a further €20,000 a year.

Yes, but it is slow. Naturalisation requires seven continuous years of lawful residence while holding one of the listed permit types — the long-term resident permit, the permanent investor permit and a few others — or twelve years on any other permit, plus the written Certificate of Adequate Knowledge for Naturalisation and sufficient income. EU citizens and spouses of Greeks with a child qualify after three years. Greece allows dual nationality.

The permanent investor permit carries an electronic fee of €2,000 per applicant plus €16 for the card, payable again at each renewal. Most other categories pay €150 for the permit and €16 for the card, on top of the consular fee for the national visa. The 5A regime is itself a fee in effect — €100,000 a year, paid as a lump sum — and 5B applicants pay 7% on foreign income rather than an application fee.

Not legally for the visa and permit steps, but in practice a Greek lawyer is close to essential for a property purchase (title checks, notary, land registry, the 120 m² and conversion rules), for the electronic permit filing, and for the 5A investment certification. Tax-regime applications to AADE are usually handled by a Greek accountant. Our review checks the file first so you pay a lawyer for filing, not for guessing.

Yes — that is what the digital nomad route is for, and financially independent persons and Golden Visa holders may also work remotely for non-Greek employers, though the FIP and nomad permits forbid working for a Greek company. Once you are tax resident the salary is taxable in Greece on the worldwide basis. The 5C 50% exemption is written for jobs with a Greek entity or a permanent establishment of a foreign company in Greece, so a remote employee of a foreign employer should get advice before assuming it applies; the 5A flat tax does cover foreign employment income.

Getting residency here does not end tax residency where you came from. Use the relevant Exit site — see exitglobal.app.