20 nomad visas don't tax your foreign income. 25 do.

Of the 49 open programmes we track, 20 do not tax income earned outside the country: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curaçao, Ecuador, El Salvador, Japan, Malaysia, Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H), Panama, Romania, Seychelles, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand — Long-Term Resident Visa (LTR), United Arab Emirates and Uruguay. 25 do tax it once you become tax resident, and for 4 the government publishes no answer, which we list separately rather than treating as tax-free.

No. It means the host country does not tax that income. Your home country, or wherever you remain tax resident, may still tax it — US citizens are taxed on worldwide income wherever they live. Most of the exemptions here also depend on the income being paid from outside the country and on you not becoming tax resident under the ordinary day-count rule, listed on the record wherever the country publishes one.

No. Indonesia taxes residents on worldwide income, and its record on this page says so. The belief that a nomad visa makes Bali tax-free is one of the most repeated errors in this niche, and it is the reason this page lists the taxed programmes as plainly as the untaxed ones.

One record per programme, each carrying the government's published position on foreign-earned income and the date we last checked it. Where the government publishes nothing either way we record that as unpublished, not as tax-free — inventing an exemption on a tax page is the error competitors monetise. The full dataset is public under CC BY 4.0.