Patrician.ch: Where to Live, Tax and Second Passports

Patrician.ch is independent comparison research on where high earners and wealthy families live, relocate and hold residence. Connect it and Claude answers relocation, tax residency and second passport questions with Patrician.ch figures, each linked to the page it comes from.

Where to live: ranks 100 tier one places to live, across 47 countries and territories, on your income, passports, family and current home. For each place: effective income tax, what your household keeps over 10 years, the exit tax your current country charges, wealth tax, and the residence route, including golden visa and investor routes.

Income tax by place: tax on one income in every place, from zero income tax jurisdictions such as Monaco, Dubai, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands to Swiss cantons, Florida, New York, London and Lisbon.

Compare places: Dubai vs Monaco, Zug or Lugano, Miami vs Lake Como, side by side with cost of living, safety, schools and sun.

Place profiles: the tax regime and the special regimes for new residents, including lump sum taxation, flat tax and non-dom rules.

Second passports: more than 60 passports, with years to citizenship, dual citizenship, citizenship by investment routes and whether the country taxes citizens who live abroad.

Built for high earners, founders planning a liquidity event, high net worth and ultra high net worth families, family offices and their advisors.

Try: "I earn $2M a year, US passport, living in New York with 2 kids. Where should we live?" or "What does a Portuguese passport get me, and how long does it take?"

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