A short list of countries and territories charge no annual tax on a home, most of them small states or Gulf monarchies. The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States collect the most. In many other countries the tax is small for residents and higher for foreign owners of second homes.
From Athens’ €50,000 Airbnb fines to Dubai’s anything-goes freeholds, what golden visa investors may do with a qualifying property now varies wildly.
Common-law partners, same-sex spouses, and fiancés get very different answers depending on the jurisdiction, ranging from a notary visit to an outright second file.
Permit conversions and a cooling property market kept volumes high through the Gulf’s most turbulent year in decades.
The UAE is the new Switzerland, but better: Reliable, neutral, and low-tax, but also easy to immigrate to, writes Pablo Ostrick.
The United Arab Emirates’ celebration of its 47th national day today coincides with its passport reaching pole position on the
This article was contributed by Gareth Brookes I was flying back into Dubai the other evening and read an interesting
