Free Resources and Offers
Free tools, useful guides, and the occasional limited promotion for cross-border tax planning and personal finance.
Important: Nothing on this page is financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. I disclose every advisory or commercial relationship below. You are responsible for your own decisions and for verifying anything that affects your taxes, your money, or your residency. When stakes are high, consult a licensed professional in your country.
What’s on this page
I don’t run sponsored content on this blog and I don’t sell products of my own. What this page collects is: free tools and resources I think are genuinely useful, official-source documents that solve specific problems for cross-border readers, and the occasional limited offer or trial from a platform I’m an advisor to or have a relationship with. Everything is disclosed.
If you’re new here, start with the curated reading list at The Cross-Border Tax Insider.
Free tools and trials
Taixable — the cross-border tax planning platform I’m a business advisor for. Their public blog and country guides are free to read. The Pro subscription and the one-off Decision Report are paid products, but the introductory tour and a meaningful slice of the country content is accessible without an account. If a promotional code or trial is currently available, it’ll be linked from the main site — I don’t maintain promo codes here because they change and stale codes are worse than no codes.
Wise — multi-currency account with no monthly fees. The account itself is free; you pay per transfer at transparent rates. For most cross-border readers this is the lowest-friction starting point for moving money between currencies.
Free official-source guides
The single most useful free resource for any cross-border tax question is the relevant tax authority’s own publications. They’re tedious to read but they’re the authoritative source, and they’re often clearer than the third-party blog posts that paraphrase them.
- US: IRS International Taxpayers, especially Publication 54 (US citizens and resident aliens abroad)
- UK: HMRC’s Statutory Residence Test guidance and the broader HMRC publications
- OECD: the Model Tax Convention and country tax treaties database — the underlying text of any treaty you’re trying to apply
Free posts on this blog that double as practical guides
A few posts here are specifically structured as how-to references that you can save for later:
- Tax residency in 5 minutes: the rules that decide where you owe — the rules of thumb, condensed
- Tracking the 183-day rule when you’re moving every month — the operational side
- FEIE vs Foreign Tax Credit: which to use, and when — the US-specific decision
- Opening your first international bank account in 2026 — what works, what doesn’t
- When pre-decision modeling pays for itself — the framework
What I don’t do
To be transparent about what isn’t on this page:
- I don’t run affiliate links with per-click or per-signup commissions on this blog
- I don’t accept sponsored posts
- I don’t run a newsletter with a paid tier
- I don’t sell information products of my own
The posts here exist because I had a question I couldn’t find a clear answer to and decided to write the answer down. The links go to tools I genuinely use or advise on.
Other landing pages on this blog
- The Cross-Border Tax Insider — curated reading on tax decision modeling
- Cross-border collaborations — recommended tools and platforms
- Wider community collaborations — extended network
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