Digital Nomad Tax Freedom Index 2025

Overview

This project supported Liberty International's 2025 Digital Nomad Tax Freedom Index, a comparative report designed to make cross-border tax and mobility rules easier to understand for remote workers and policymakers.

The value of the work was in turning scattered policy information into something structured and comparable. That meant supporting a research process grounded in country-by-country rules rather than broad opinion.

Role

My contribution focused on the research support layer behind the publication.

• Compiled and organized cross-country information related to visa rules, tax treatment, residency thresholds, and mobility conditions.
• Supported analysis and synthesis work used to compare jurisdictions within a common index framework.
• Contributed to internal discussions around how the research should be interpreted and communicated.

Methodology

The report compares countries using variables that matter directly to digital nomads, including taxation, legal recognition of remote work, visa conditions, and administrative friction.

• Helped work through policy indicators tied to tax residency, territorial taxation, and digital nomad eligibility conditions.
• Supported research that had to balance legal interpretation, consistency across countries, and comparability inside a shared ranking model.
• Worked within a broader publication process where research, editing, and final publication were coordinated across teams.

Outcomes

This project shows a different side of my work: careful comparative research that feeds into a public-facing policy output. Instead of building software or running an event, the work required accuracy, synthesis, and judgment across a large set of country-specific rules.

For the portfolio, it demonstrates that I can contribute to structured research projects where the challenge is making complex information usable, credible, and publishable.