Citizenship you were born with or naturalized into feels permanent. Hold two, and a handful of countries attach a quiet maintenance obligation, reclaiming the second passport if you let the paperwork or the ties lapse.
Tax residence is a separate test from immigration status, and only Argentina and Hungary write a permit into it. For every other country on this list, your wealth tax bill turns on days present and on where your assets are.
The UK’s third-biggest taxpayer is reportedly switching his residency to Greece and opening an Athens office. Greece charges new tax residents a flat 100,000 euros a year on all foreign income, whatever they earn, for up to 15 years.
Bank secrecy is mostly gone. The real dividing line between jurisdictions today is whether an account can be frozen by an official’s signature or only by a judge’s ruling.
In nine of them, the loss happens automatically, with no order issued and no notice served.
A parent’s guide to the unannounced deadlines by which at least ten countries strip birthright nationality from young adults.
Four jurisdictions, four entirely different tax models. The UAE charges nothing, Switzerland charges a lot but predictably, Singapore taxes only what you bring in, and Panama ignores anything earned abroad.
Crypto gains can go untaxed in 21 countries in 2026, through no tax, territorial rules, or an exemption after a set time.
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.
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A climate tax targeting billionaires crashed hard at the Swiss ballot, upholding a national trend of rejecting proposals that threaten Switzerland’s wealth haven status.
The 13 special tax regimes that allow you to pay single-digit tax rates in 8 otherwise high-tax European countries in 2025.
Geneva is the top destination for Switzerland’s lump sum tax residents while Russians make up the largest applicant nationality pool.
Philippe May says the proposal will “fail colossally”. Yamin Fouzi warns that the mere hint of such a policy damages the Swiss reputation.
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Dr. Guillaume Grisel examines the five ways to get Swiss residency, the path to naturalization, and the Swiss special tax regime.
It now remains to be seen whether the remaining non-EU Schengen countries – Norway, Lichtenstein, and Iceland – will follow suit.
