Permit conversions and a cooling property market kept volumes high through the Gulf’s most turbulent year in decades.
The state gained 28,000 millionaires and still lost billions in potential tax revenue, a paradox now at the center of one of America’s fiercest tax debates.
The stock route gets 50% pricier, tilting the program decisively toward active business; approvals average 85 a year against a 500 cap.
Some countries ask for a signature and a modest fee; others demand military service, an exit tax, or refuse to let go at all. Here’s your map of the nationality exit door.
More than three decades after the Soviet flag came down, its heirs diverged: EU passports in the Baltics, easy residency in the Caucasus, new golden visas in Central Asia, and Moscow’s own offer.
The government explicitly barred franchises at launch. Seven months and “a single approval” later, it is changing course.
As the Common Reporting Standard swallows the last holdouts, a short list of jurisdictions still sits outside automatic exchange of financial information.
The 358-page proposal locks in investor wins on capital timing and codifies an enforcement regime for regional centers.
A zoning-based framework replaces case-by-case discretion, aiming to direct foreign capital to Saudi’s new mega-projects while Makkah and Madinah open to Muslims only.
While investors have pulled out €95 million this year, they’ve also injected nearly three times that amount.
The complaint targets both the nationality overhaul and the AIMA backlog that left investors short of the deadline that would have protected them.
Non-Omanis can now buy and own property across the country. Vito Magagnino says the move “signals maturity rather than desperation.”
Ottawa issued 4,075 descent certificates since December; but now suspending an undisclosed number over documentation concerns.
The most detailed figures the government has ever made public on the program’s outcomes arrive via a parliamentary inquiry.
Denmark last had a wealth tax in 1997. Frederiksen wants it back, proposing a 1% annual levy on the country’s richest residents.
Browne uses inaugural Caribbean-EU forum to argue CBI vetting exceeds European standards; calls for engagement over coercion as Brussels and Washington tighten the screws.
MM2H approved 9,511 participants in 18 months after managing just 1,900 in the three years prior; 2,637 property transactions remain pending.
Starting January 2028, the Netherlands is set to require that residents pay tax on paper profits they have not yet cashed in, pending Senate approval.
Swiss to vote on a population ceiling that would trigger residency restrictions as the country, now home to 9.1 million, approaches 10 million, with potential consequences for EU free movement.
The EU-candidate nation introduces a structured property-based residence pathway and a minimum tax threshold for foreign business owners.