Since living in Norway, I&#x27;ve learned of this. It seems that the taxes are generally when you are making money from Norway - it is possible to get disability money from norway, taxed, and live abroad. You do lose the social benefit rights, but you keep your taxed income. My understanding is that they figured that in the long run, it actually saves the country money because of the lack of social services provided, and works out if one moves to a place with a strong exchange rate against the NOK.