XJune 10, 2026
Your tax bill on worldwide income in 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda: 20,000 USD a year. Flat. 30 days on the ground.
The Permanent Residency Programme is one of the simplest tax residency products on the market. Keep a home on the island, spend 30 days a year there, pay the flat 20,000 USD, and you receive a residency certificate plus a Tax Identification Number. On worldwide income, that flat payment is the whole bill. Antigua abolished personal income tax in 2016 and levies no capital gains, wealth or inheritance tax. Local taxes still apply if you consume, own or operate there: 17% ABST on goods and services, property tax, stamp duty on transfers, and an unincorporated business tax of 0, 8 or 25% on local business income.
Here is what most websites selling this programme will not tell you. The 2021 amendment to the Immigration and Passport Act raised the minimum annual income from 100,000 to 500,000 USD. Five years later, the majority of agency pages still advertise the old threshold. We read the gazetted text.
The other catch is in the OECD. The Permanent Residence Certificate sits on the OECD list of high risk residency schemes for CRS purposes, so banks apply enhanced due diligence to holders. And a 20,000 USD certificate does nothing against your home country residency tests. If your centre of vital interests never moved, neither did your tax residency.
For a genuinely mobile profile with clean substance and a 500,000 USD income, this is one of the cheapest full tax residencies in the world. For everyone else, it is an expensive piece of paper.
Would a 30 day a year residency survive a centre of vital interests challenge from your current tax authority?
Sourced from GeoCompass, the jurisdiction intelligence layer behind Lucky Nomads.
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