Anguilla residence and tax

Residence by investment: the price list

The programmes run through Select Anguilla, the agency the government has appointed for all applications. Permanent residence without the right to work has two routes: a contribution to the Capital Development Fund of US$150,000 for a single applicant plus US$50,000 per dependant, or real estate worth US$750,000 for a family of up to four plus US$100,000 for each additional dependant.

If you want to live and work on Anguilla, you invest US$750,000 in business premises, or in a mix of business and residential property in which the business premises make up at least half. A spouse and children up to 26 in full-time education can be included. There is no minimum stay.

The fees: due diligence of US$7,500 per adult and US$2,500 for 16 and 17 year olds, processing of US$3,000 for a family of up to four, and on the real estate route a Real Estate Permit Fee of US$10,000 for a single applicant and US$20,000 for a family of up to four.

Tax residency for $75,000

The second programme, HVR, is aimed at people with international lives who give up their previous tax residence. You pay a fixed annual tax of US$75,000 on your worldwide income, spend at least 45 days a year on Anguilla, build genuine ties such as a bank account or memberships, and declare each year that you have not spent 183 days or more in any other country. The government expects you to be able to cover the flat tax for five years.

Beyond that, according to Select Anguilla, there is no income, capital gains, inheritance or corporation tax. The island lives on customs duties, a GST on goods and services, property tax and the Universal Social Levy: 3 per cent of pay for employees earning more than EC$2,000 a month, a further 3 per cent from the employer, and 6 per cent for the self-employed.

The blacklist and your home country

Anguilla is in Annex I of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions, still so after the revision of 9 October 2026. The Council's reasons: Anguilla lacks a Global Forum rating of at least "largely compliant" on exchange of information on request, and it facilitates offshore structures without real economic substance.

The list does not tax anyone by itself. What counts is how your home country uses it. Your country may apply its own defensive rules to EU-listed territories: refusing deductions for payments to the island, taxing the profits of an Anguilla company in its resident owner's hands, withdrawing reliefs on dividends from there, adding withholding taxes or demanding extra records. Those rules bite on people who keep living at home and have business or holdings connected with Anguilla. How the list works is set out on our page on the EU list of tax havens.

For someone who moves to Anguilla for good, the listing is secondary. What matters then are your home country's rules on leaving: it may tax your company shares on emigration, and it may keep a claim on you for a period if business and assets stay behind. The list says nothing about whether Anguilla is a pleasant place to live. It says a lot about how expensive ties to it can become from home.

The blacklisting is not about secrecy. Anguilla is on HMRC's list of jurisdictions exchanging account data under the Common Reporting Standard, so an account there is reported to the country where you are tax resident, and you declare the income there.

Who Anguilla suits

People who want to live in the Caribbean, want an affordable way into permanent residence and no longer do business back home. If you want to keep your ties at home, you are better placed on an island that is not listed, such as the Cayman Islands. The other listed British territory is Turks and Caicos.

From twenty years with the British territories: Anguilla is friendly, manageable and honest about its prices. The listing is the price the island pays for that, and sometimes the client pays it too.

Sources: Select Anguilla: Permanent Residency; Select Anguilla: Tax Residency; Select Anguilla: Business and tax; Inland Revenue Department Anguilla: Universal Social Levy; Council of the EU: conclusions of 9 October 2026