CompareIrelandvsNetherlands

Ireland: A resident who is not ordinarily resident and not domiciled in Ireland pays Irish tax on Irish source income, and on foreign income only to the extent it is remitted into Ireland. The Netherlands: Worldwide income, with relief from double taxation depending on the treaty with the country the income comes from.

Ireland: Day count, 183 days or more in a tax year. Two-year count, 280 days or more across the current and preceding tax years together, with a year of 30 days or fewer not counting. Election on arrival, you may choose to be treated as resident in the year you arrive, if you will be resident the following year. The Netherlands: Where you live, Living in the Netherlands gives you resident taxpayer status, assessed on your circumstances rather than on a day count. A tax residency test runs separately from the permit that lets you live there, so holding one does not settle the other.

Ireland's lowest cited income floor is $4,758 a month on its economic self-sufficiency route (plus a lump sum covering the cost of an Irish home). The Netherlands' lowest cited way in is $5,139 on its business investment route (and a registered Dutch company with accountant-signed accounts).

Ireland naturalises after 5 years of residence (reckonable residence, out of the last 9 years). The Netherlands naturalises after 5 years of residence (legal residence, and normally at the cost of your current nationality). The Netherlands asks you to give your current passport up.