{"id":1925,"date":"2026-11-03T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/2026\/11\/03\/tax-in-norway-foreign-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:33:45","slug":"tax-in-norway-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/2026\/11\/03\/tax-in-norway-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"What tax do foreign workers pay in Norway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most foreign workers in Norway receive a PAYE tax card, which means a flat tax taken directly from their pay. Without any tax card, the employer must deduct 50 %.<\/p>\n<h2>PAYE in 2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The rate is 25 % of your salary, or 17.4 % if you are exempt from the national insurance contribution.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot earn more than 725 050 kr in 2026 and stay in the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot claim deductions, and you do not file a tax return.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who can use it<\/h2>\n<p>You can use PAYE if you are not tax resident in Norway, and also in your first year of tax residence. You generally cannot if you have lived in Norway for over a year, receive taxable benefits from NAV, have Norwegian business income, or have capital income above 10 000 kr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skatteetaten.no\/person\/til-fra-norge\/til\/jobbe\/skattekort\/kildeskatt-pa-lonn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skatteetaten on PAYE<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Can you choose ordinary tax instead?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes. You can opt out yourself, up to 31 December three years after the income year, but your employer cannot do it for you. Ordinary taxation allows deductions, so it can suit people with real travel or living costs.<\/p>\n<h2>Les mer<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/2026\/11\/03\/d-number-tax-card-norway\/\">How to get a D-number and tax card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/2026\/11\/03\/accommodation-norway-foreign-workers\/\">Accommodation in Norway: costs and your rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/2026\/10\/29\/working-in-norway-what-to-actually-expect\/\">Working in Norway: what to actually expect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/jobbtilbud\/\">Our current jobs in Norway<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>General information, checked November 2026, not tax advice.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign workers in Norway usually pay 25 % PAYE tax in 2026. Who qualifies, the 725 050 kr income limit, and why having no tax card costs you 50 %.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advices","category-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soprana.no\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}