Bulgaria

Temporary residence for digital nomads (Art. 24(1)(23) and Art. 24s, Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act)

Income requirement

Data not published

Maximum stay

365 days

Tax + social

10.0%

Monthly cost

$2,580

Visa facts

  • Maximum stay: 365 days
  • Processing time: ? - ? days
  • Dependents allowed: unknown
  • Remote work permission: explicitly allowed
  • Renewal path: Renewable (official source indicates extension or renewal is available).
  • Income requirement: Data not published
  • Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Official Bulgarian government tax pages indicate tax residence where presence exceeds 183 days in a 12-month period and apply resident/non-resident distinctions. Resident treatment: residents are generally taxed on worldwide income. Non-resident treatment: non-residents are taxed on Bulgarian-source income. The standard PIT rate is 10% and standard VAT is 20% in the official tax-scheme summary. Employee social contribution is set to null because retrieved primary public pages did not provide one single nationwide employee aggregate rate across all insured categories/funds in the execution environment. Foreign-income exemption is set to 'no' under the general worldwide-taxation model for residents. Assumptions: no treaty overrides modeled. Confidence: medium (official tax-residency/PIT/VAT coverage; social-contribution aggregation unavailable from retrieved primary pages).

Cost and infrastructure

  • Monthly cost baseline: $2,580
  • Rent (1BR city center): $496
  • Internet: Data not published
  • Coworking: Data not published

Budget Your Trip daily baselines (retrieved 2026-02-27) were converted to monthly by multiplying by 30: poor USD 1050, average USD 2580, comfortable USD 6180; monthly_cost_single_usd uses the average baseline. Numbeo (retrieved 2026-02-27) provided country-level 1-bedroom city-centre rent in USD. Utilities/internet/coworking are null because a consistent country-level nomad baseline for those components was not reliably extractable at execution time. Confidence: medium-low.

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