#internationaltax

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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. #internationaltax #residencyplanning #antiguaandbarbuda

LinkedInJune 8, 2026

Singapore's GDP per capita is nearly 10 times Georgia's. On the jurisdiction index I maintain, the two sit 0.0005 points apart. Same tier. Wildly different countries. Here is what pulls a small post-Soviet republic up to a Singapore-grade score. - 1% personal tax on business turnover up to 500,000 GEL, roughly 185,000 USD, for registered sole entrepreneurs. The standard rate is 20%. - A territorial system. Resident individuals are not taxed on foreign-source income. No wealth tax. No inheritance tax. - 365 days visa-free for citizens of more than 90 countries, including the US, UK, EU, Canada and Australia. No advance visa, only proof of health and accident insurance for the stay, required since January 2026. - Tax residency reachable by high-net-worth applicants without the usual 183-day presence rule. The catch the agencies skip: a work permit regime landed on 1 March 2026, though April amendments carve out purely remote work billed to clients outside Georgia. And 183 days on the ground makes you a tax resident. Visa-free is not tax-free. And the index prices the real cost. Georgia scores 5.4 / 10 on geopolitical stability against 8.8 / 10 for Singapore. Around 20% of its internationally recognised territory has been under Russian occupation since 2008. So the money cost of getting in stays low. The standing cost is geopolitical, and it never shows up on a tax table. If you were choosing a second base purely on after-tax yield, how many points of geopolitical risk would you trade for a 1% turnover regime? Sourced from GeoCompass, the jurisdiction intelligence layer behind Lucky Nomads. #internationaltax #globalmobility #residencyplanning