Porto Cervo (Sardinia)
🇮🇹 Italy · Address 11 of 100

Porto Cervo, for a high earner.

The Aga Khan built this coast in the sixties out of empty granite headlands, and it is now the most expensive marina in the Mediterranean every August. The flat tax regime applies, the water off the Costa Smeralda is the clearest in Italy, and Olbia airport takes private jets by the hundred in July.

In short, current to September 2026

  • A person earning $1,000,000 and resident in Porto Cervo, Italy pays an effective 45% of income tax on Patrician's 2026 model, keeping $553K. At $300,000 the effective rate is 43%, and at $3,000,000 it is 45%.
  • Capital gains on a disposal by a resident individual are taxed at 26% in Italy, so a $5,000,000 liquidity event realized after residence begins carries roughly $1.3M locally.
  • Inheritance: Children pay 5% or less. Italy taxes a spouse and each child at 4% above a €1,000,000 allowance each.
  • Italy operates a special regime for arriving foreigners: Flat tax for new residents on foreign income under Article 24-bis, a fixed 300,000 euros a year for anyone who becomes resident from 1 January 2026, plus 50,000 euros per family member, for up to 15 years. Earlier entrants keep the 100,000 or 200,000 rate they joined on (2026 Budget Law, Law 199 of 30.12.2025). 48 of the 100 addresses on the Patrician.ch board sit in a jurisdiction that does.
  • On the passports most readers hold, the realistic route into Porto Cervo is Residence by investment, Lump sum residence, Founder & talent.
  • Cost of the life is 130 on Patrician's index where Zurich is 100, safety 9 of 10, schools 3 of 10. These 3 are Patrician editorial indices scored by us, not published statistics.
  • Rules moved in 2024: the flat tax on foreign income doubled to €200K a year. Any figure above is current to September 2026 and should be confirmed with counsel before it is relied on.

Source: the Patrician.ch board, an original ranking of 100 residence addresses across 48 countries and territories. Tax rates, thresholds and routes are sourced. Cost, safety, schools, sun and beauty are Patrician.ch editorial indices. Figures current to September 2026. Updated . Cite as: Patrician.ch, Porto Cervo (Sardinia) tax and residence 2026 for a high earner, patrician.ch/cities/pce/, September 2026.

Rules moved 2024: the flat tax on foreign income doubled to €200K a year
The numbers

What Porto Cervo takes, and what it costs.

Effective tax at $1M45%$553K kept
Capital gains26%on a $1M gain
Cost index130Zurich = 100
Inheritance, children4%Children pay 5% or less
Supercar street index#28of 100
Safety9/10 
Schools3/10international options
Sun hours a year2,550 
Italy net millionaire inflow 2025+3,600Henley, country level

Tax on your bracket.

IncomeTaxEffectiveKept
$300K$128K43%$172K
$1M$447K45%$553K
$3M$1.4M45%$1.6M

Special regime. Flat tax for new residents on foreign income under Article 24-bis, a fixed 300,000 euros a year for anyone who becomes resident from 1 January 2026, plus 50,000 euros per family member, for up to 15 years. Earlier entrants keep the 100,000 or 200,000 rate they joined on (2026 Budget Law, Law 199 of 30.12.2025)

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Who gets in

The residence route.

EU nationals register on arrival. Others use the elective residence visa, the investor visa from €250K, or an intra company transfer. The flat tax regime is elected on arrival and runs 15 years.

Residence by investmentLump sum residenceFounder & talent

A Italy passport scores 72.3 on the mobility index. The passport ladder on the engine compares 65 of them.

The life

An ordinary day in Porto Cervo.

🇮🇹 Sardinia, ItalyPorto Cervo
  • Liscia di VaccaSwim before the boats leave the marina. The granite coves here have no sand, only rock and glass water.
  • Porto Cervo villageThe piazzetta and the notaio, both open by appointment only in season.
  • Porto RotondoLunch by boat, 20 minutes down the coast. Book before May.
  • The marinaDinner on the quay. The yachts here are the reason the town exists.

Flight times.

FromHours
New York9.2
London2.7
Zurich1.9
Dubai6.6
Singapore13.5
Tel Aviv4.1
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Questions

How much income tax does a $1M earner pay in Porto Cervo?

About $447K a year, an effective 45%, which leaves $553K of $1,000,000 on Patrician.ch's 2026 model.

At $300K the effective rate is 43%, and at $3M it is 45%. Social contributions, deductions and treaties are not included. Special regime for arrivals: Flat tax for new residents on foreign income under Article 24-bis, a fixed 300,000 euros a year for anyone who becomes resident from 1 January 2026, plus 50,000 euros per family member, for up to 15 years. Earlier entrants keep the 100,000 or 200,000 rate they joined on (2026 Budget Law, Law 199 of 30.12.2025).

Does Porto Cervo tax capital gains?

Yes. A resident individual in Porto Cervo pays about 26% on a capital gain, about $260K on a $1,000,000 gain.

The rate is modeled on a $1,000,000 gain on listed securities after the common exemptions. Holding periods and exemptions can lower it.

Does Porto Cervo have a wealth tax?

No. Italy levies no general annual wealth tax on a resident's net worth.

Does Porto Cervo have an inheritance tax?

Only lightly for children. Italy taxes a spouse and each child at 4% above a €1,000,000 allowance each.

What a child pays: 4% above €1M. Source: Testo unico successioni e donazioni, current to September 2026. The heir's own residence and the location of the assets can bring another country's tax into play.

How does a foreigner get residence in Porto Cervo?

EU nationals register on arrival.

Others use the elective residence visa, the investor visa from €250K, or an intra company transfer. The flat tax regime is elected on arrival and runs 15 years. Routes that matter for money: Residence by investment, Lump sum residence, Founder & talent.

What does life in Porto Cervo cost?

Porto Cervo scores 130 on the Patrician.ch cost index, where Zurich is 100.

Safety scores 9 of 10 and schools 3 of 10, with 2,550 sun hours a year. Cost, safety and schools are Patrician.ch editorial indices, not published statistics. Italy as a whole saw a net inflow of 3,600 millionaires in 2025 (Henley, country level).

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