🇲🇽 Retire abroad
Retire in Mexico, priced from your own plan
Mexico combines one of the lowest investment-gain rates Runway models with genuinely low living costs. A 10 percent flat rate on listed-share gains leaves most of a drawdown untouched.
What Runway models in Mexico
- A 10 percent flat rate on gains from listed shares, the lowest positive rate in Runway's catalogueue
- Rental income on the progressive PIT scale
- No wealth tax
- Spending priced in pesos through your FX scenario
| Tax area | What Runway applies (2026) |
|---|---|
| Investment gains | 10% flat (listed shares) |
| Rental income | Progressive (PIT scale) |
| Wealth tax | None modelled |
| Leaving home | Any exit tax your home country charges, priced into the move |
The move itself is part of the price
A move to Mexico is never just Mexico's tax rules. Leaving a country that charges an exit tax, Norway among them, can trigger a bill on unrealised gains as if you sold on the way out, and Runway prices that into the plan before a single MXN of spending is modelled. The mechanics are in what an exit tax costs when you leave, and the wider tooling question in which FIRE calculators handle a move abroad.
Once you are there, your spending runs in MXN through an exchange-rate scenario you control, so a weak krone decade is a plan you can stress, not a surprise.
Price the whole move, not the postcard
Runway prices a retirement in Mexico end to end from your own plan: any exit tax on the way out, Mexico's taxes on the drawdown, and your spending in local currency. Your freedom age is free.
Download free on the App StoreFrequently asked
What tax does Runway assume on investment gains in Mexico?
Runway applies Mexico's 10 percent flat rate to gains on listed shares and taxes rental income on the progressive scale. The figures are 2026, income-year-stamped, and refreshed as rules change.
Do I still pay an exit tax if I retire to Mexico?
It depends where you leave from. Norway charges utflyttingsskatt on unrealised gains and several other home countries charge an exit tax of their own. Runway prices whichever one applies to you into every plan that retires to Mexico, as a cost of the move, before the destination's own rules take over on the drawdown.
What rate does Mexico charge on share gains?
A flat 10 percent on gains from listed shares, which is what Runway applies to a typical fund-and-share drawdown. Unlisted assets follow different rules, which is a pack-manifest detail rather than something the headline hides.
Figures are 2026, income-year-stamped estimates from the Runway country pack for Mexico, produced by the same engine the app runs. They are educational estimates, not financial or tax advice: rules change, and personal cases differ. See the full country list.