What changed in Greece

Article 5C exempts half your Greek-source income for 7 years

Personal income tax

Keep per-platform records, self-declaration and DAC8 are coming

Crypto tax and legal status

Whether 5A or 5B shelters your crypto gains is not confirmed

Crypto tax and legal status

No VAT on crypto exchange, and no individual exit tax on it

Crypto tax and legal status

Habitual trading is taxed as business income, not the flat rate

Crypto tax and legal status

Staking, mining and airdrop rewards are taxed as ordinary income

Crypto tax and legal status

If enacted, private-investor crypto gains face a flat 15 percent

Crypto tax and legal status

Whether the 15 percent crypto gains tax is actually law is unsettled

Crypto tax and legal status

Crypto is legal to hold and trade, and now properly regulated

Crypto tax and legal status

Everyone needs an AFM tax number before daily life works

Local registrations

Residency alone does not switch on public healthcare or pension

Healthcare coverage

The 50 percent tax break does not cleanly fit a pure remote nomad

Personal income tax

Article 5B: a flat 7 percent covers all foreign income for pensioners

Personal income tax

Article 5A: a flat 100,000 euro a year shelters foreign income

Personal income tax

Redomiciling an existing company into Greece is not well mapped

Moving your company

Greek CFC rules can attribute your foreign company's income to you

Moving your company

Running your foreign company's management from Greece risks its tax home

Moving your company

You rarely need a Greek company just to get residency

Moving your company

Inheritance, gift and annual property tax still apply

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

Greece charges no wealth tax and no charge for arriving

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

Naturalisation takes 7 years of genuine residence, not investment time

Permanent residency and citizenship

EU and EEA citizens settle in Greece with proof of resources

Residency routes

Third-country nationals have several self-funded residency routes

Residency routes

Register with the police once you pass three months

Local registrations

Signing contracts or managing from Greece creates real PE risk

Permanent establishment risk

Permanent establishment risk looks low for a remote employee

Permanent establishment risk

EFKA social contributions run about 35 percent combined

Employer payroll obligations

Your employer has no Greek payroll obligation on a short stay

Employer payroll obligations

Third-country visitors need their own private health cover

Insurance

EHIC or GHIC covers you for a temporary stay in Greece

Healthcare coverage

No coordination mechanism, your home rules decide everything

Social security

Your social security coverage is coordinated with Greece

Social security

Long stay with no tax treaty risks real double taxation

Personal income tax

A tax treaty protects your salary if Greece and home both claim it

Personal income tax

Non-residents owe Greek tax only on Greek-source income

Personal income tax

Past 183 days you are a Greek tax resident from day one

Tax residency

Unlikely to become a Greek tax resident on this stay

Tax residency

You can become a Greek tax resident well under 183 days

Tax residency

On the Digital Nomad Visa, only foreign-employer work is authorized

Right to work

Remote work on a plain Schengen visitor stay sits in a grey zone

Right to work

EU and EEA citizens can work in Greece with no restriction

Right to work

The Digital Nomad Visa is the compliant route for non-EU remote workers

Immigration and visa

Your nationality needs a Schengen C visa before travel

Immigration and visa

Visa-free Schengen entry covers up to 90 days in 180

Immigration and visa

EU and EEA citizens have full free movement into Greece

Immigration and visa