Please stop recommending Romania as it's about to be Greece 2008. And our government is planning some more surprise tax-hikes like we got between Christmas and new year 2024. Now they're leaking into the press a surprise dividend hike to 16%
Also, since last year the max threshold was modified to 100k eur (From 250k eur) (Go 1 eur above 100k Eur income and you automatically have to pay the 16% profit tax )
Taxes for IT freelancers are around ~20% now: 3% income, 10% Dividend and a fixed another 2000 eur/year, 16% on profit OR Have a minimum wage full time Employee which costs about 500 eur/month in taxes etc... you end up with 80k Net for 100k income.
Air quality is not great in winter in the big cities but largely ok in summer/spring. Also it's improving. I don't think it'll be a big issue going forward. You can check this site for more data (both historical and daily data): https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-quality-ranking.
If you want extra clean air, then other places can offer similar things to poland but with better air: czechia, estonia, croatia. Althought they might lack some of the things that poland offers.
or portugal/spain if you're ok living in a socialist society with high taxes (unless you qualify for special tax incentives - which are also a bit annoying to comply to)
Please stop recommending Romania as it's about to be Greece 2008. And our government is planning some more surprise tax-hikes like we got between Christmas and new year 2024. Now they're leaking into the press a surprise dividend hike to 16%
Also, since last year the max threshold was modified to 100k eur (From 250k eur) (Go 1 eur above 100k Eur income and you automatically have to pay the 16% profit tax )
Taxes for IT freelancers are around ~20% now: 3% income, 10% Dividend and a fixed another 2000 eur/year, 16% on profit OR Have a minimum wage full time Employee which costs about 500 eur/month in taxes etc... you end up with 80k Net for 100k income.
Thanks for sharing!
Air quality is not great in winter in the big cities but largely ok in summer/spring. Also it's improving. I don't think it'll be a big issue going forward. You can check this site for more data (both historical and daily data): https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-quality-ranking.
If you want extra clean air, then other places can offer similar things to poland but with better air: czechia, estonia, croatia. Althought they might lack some of the things that poland offers.
or portugal/spain if you're ok living in a socialist society with high taxes (unless you qualify for special tax incentives - which are also a bit annoying to comply to)
The link I provided above can give you all the data that you need around air pollution.
Warsaw, for instance, is way better than cities like Bangkok and Dubai when it comes to pollution. It doesn't even compare.
It's more similar to places like Paris or Berlin.
If you want clean air in Poland in all seasons you can consider the "Tricity" area (Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot). Great place!