European Global Mobility & Expat Tax Advisory

Who this is for

This service is intended exclusively for private individuals and families with cross-border European mobility considerations. Typical clients include internationally mobile families, high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs acting in a personal capacity, professionals relocating independently, and individuals planning retirement or long-term residence in Europe.

The advisory scope is personal and private-client focused. It does not extend to corporate structures, employer-led assignments or workforce mobility programmes.

Understanding European global mobility for private individuals

For private individuals, European global mobility is fundamentally about how and where tax residence is established, maintained and evidenced. Each European jurisdiction applies its own legal tests, administrative practices and interpretative approaches. These often go beyond simple day-count thresholds and increasingly rely on broader factual assessments, including family ties, habitual living patterns and economic connections.

A misalignment between lifestyle, documentation and legal residence claims can result in overlapping residence exposure, disputes with tax authorities or unexpected compliance obligations. Understanding these risks in advance is essential for anyone considering mobility within Europe.

Our European expat tax advisory expertise

We advise private clients on European tax residence and mobility issues across multiple jurisdictions, adopting a comparative and coordinated approach rather than a single-country perspective. Our work focuses on how different European systems apply residence concepts in practice and how those rules interact when individuals maintain links with more than one country.

Advice is framed around the client’s personal circumstances, family structure and asset profile, ensuring that tax considerations are assessed alongside practical realities such as travel patterns, schooling, property use and long-term intentions.

Comparative approach to European tax residence

A defining feature of our advisory work is comparative analysis across European jurisdictions. Rather than recommending predetermined destinations, we help clients understand how different countries approach tax residence, foreign income and compliance, and how robust various residence positions are likely to be over time.

Comparative reviews typically consider factors such as residence tests, treaty interaction, audit risk, reporting intensity and long-term suitability for families. This allows clients to make informed decisions grounded in substance and durability, not assumptions or promotional narratives.

Our experience advising internationally mobile individuals

We regularly advise private individuals and families before, during and after European relocation. Our work often involves reviewing existing residence positions, assessing future exposure arising from increased travel or changing family circumstances, and supporting clients who maintain links with more than one European country.

In many cases, our role includes coordinating advice across jurisdictions to ensure consistency and to avoid unintended residence conflicts or compliance gaps.

Coordinated European tax residence advisory framework

Our European expat tax advisory work is built around a coordinated, multi-jurisdictional framework that reflects the reality of modern private mobility. Tax residence decisions in Europe rarely sit in isolation; they are shaped by overlapping domestic rules, treaty interaction, factual lifestyle patterns and administrative practice across more than one country.

We therefore approach each engagement by mapping the relevant European jurisdictions in parallel, identifying where residence exposure may arise and how different systems interact with one another. This enables us to assess not only whether a particular residence position is technically available, but whether it is coherent, defensible and sustainable when viewed across borders.

This coordinated framework ensures that advice is not fragmented by jurisdiction, but instead integrated into a single, consistent view that supports informed decision-making.

How our European expat tax advisors can assist

Our European expat tax advisors assist private individuals and families by integrating tax residence analysis across all relevant jurisdictions, translating complex cross-border rules into clear, practical guidance that empowers confident decision-taking.

We act as a central advisory point, coordinating tax and residence considerations across Europe and aligning them with the client’s personal, family and asset profile. This allows clients to evaluate options side-by-side, understand trade-offs, and proceed with clarity on both immediate and long-term implications.

In practice, this involves:

• Coordinating tax residence assessments across multiple European jurisdictions rather than analysing countries in isolation
• Integrating domestic law, treaty application and administrative practice into a single advisory narrative
• Aligning tax residence advice with real-world lifestyle, travel and family circumstances
• Identifying and mitigating overlapping or conflicting residence exposure
• Providing clear, written advice that supports defensible and informed decisions

Our role is not to steer clients towards predetermined outcomes, but to equip them with a complete and coherent understanding of their European mobility position. By integrating tax and tax residence advice across jurisdictions, we enable clients to make decisions with confidence, supported by clarity, consistency and long-term perspective.