🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Address 99 of 100

St John's, for a high earner.

Jumby Bay is the island off the island where the families who own the rest keep the house nobody photographs. No personal income tax, 365 beaches, and a passport that arrives with the deeds.

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In short, current to October 2026

A person earning $1,000,000 and resident in St John's, Antigua and Barbuda, pays an effective 0% of income tax on the Patrician.ch 2026 model, keeping $1M. At $300,000 the effective rate is 0%, and at $3,000,000 it is 0%.
St John's levies no capital gains tax on a disposal by a resident individual, so a liquidity event realized after residence begins is not taxed locally.
Inheritance: No inheritance tax. Antigua and Barbuda levies no inheritance or estate tax.
On the passports most readers hold, the realistic route into St John's is Citizenship by investment.
Cost of the life is 82 on the Patrician.ch index where Zurich is 100, safety 6 of 10, schools 5 of 10. These 3 are Patrician.ch editorial indices scored by us, not published statistics.
Figures are current to October 2026. Tax thresholds and residence routes move, so confirm with counsel before relying on any of them.

Official sources: Antigua and Barbuda Citizenship by Investment Unit, Laws of Antigua and Barbuda. Checked against them on 23 October 2026.

Source: the Patrician.ch board, an original ranking of 100 residence addresses across 47 countries and territories. Tax rates, thresholds and routes are sourced. Cost, safety, schools, sun and beauty are Patrician.ch editorial indices. Figures current to October 2026. Updated 29 October 2026. Cite as: Patrician.ch, St John's (Antigua) tax and residence 2026 for a high earner, patrician.ch/cities/st-johns-antigua/, October 2026.

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By the Patrician.ch research desk · Updated 29 October 2026 · 12 min read

The numbers

What St John's takes, and what it costs.

Effective tax at $1M0%$1M kept after tax

Capital gains0%on a $1M gain

Cost index82Zurich = 100

Inheritance, children0%No inheritance tax

Supercar street index#100of 100

Safety6/10

Schools5/10international options

The Patrician.ch 10091stof 100, the ranking

Prestige of address6/10Patrician.ch editorial index

Corporate tax25%headline rate on profits

Sun hours a year2,900

Passport mobility154visa free destinations

Tax on your bracket.

Income	Tax	Effective	Kept after tax
$300K	$0	0%	$300K
$1M	$0	0%	$1M
$3M	$0	0%	$3M

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Tax note. No personal income tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax. Citizenship by investment since 2013.

Out in front

Income kept after tax on $1M a year, US dollars, the 18 places in the Caribbean and Latin America on the board

Note: single filer, not a US citizen. St John's ranks 1 of 18 here, level with 8 others

Source: Patrician.ch 2026 tax model, built on official tax authority rates

Income tax on the published 2026 rules. Social contributions, most deductions and treaties are not modeled. Non-US single filer. Enter your own income, exit, passports, and family to see where St John's ranks for you.

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FIRE

The FIRE number in St John's.

The capital whose yearly withdrawal, at 4%, pays for a year here after St John's's tax on the gain part of each sale: 0% on a resident's listed securities, with half of each sale counted as gain.

A $100K year here $2.50M

A $150K year here $3.75M $4.26M for a US citizen

A $250K year here $6.25M

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Who gets in

The residence route.

Citizenship by investment from a US$230K contribution or US$300K in approved real estate, passport in months, 5 days of presence in the first 5 years after citizenship, which a bill before Parliament since July 2026 raises to 30. No personal income tax. These figures sit on the US$200K floor the 5 Eastern Caribbean programs have observed since 01.07.2024, and all 5 are moving under one regulator, ECCIRA, which has no agreed start date yet. The EU has asked all 5 to phase out citizenship by investment by 1 June 2028 under its visa suspension rules.

Citizenship by investment

The life

An ordinary day in St John's.

🇦🇬 Antigua and BarbudaSt John's

07:30
Jumby BayThe launch across from the mainland. Cars are not allowed and nobody misses them.
10:00
St John'sThe citizenship agent and a government that approves in months.
13:00
Mill ReefLunch at the club that has kept the same families since 1947.
18:00
English HarbourSunset over the yachts in for the winter. London is 8 hours, Miami under 4.

Flight times.

From	Flight	Routing
New York	4h 20m	Nonstop to Antigua
London	9h 05m	Nonstop to Antigua
Zurich	12h 05m	1 stop to Antigua
Dubai	18h 10m	1 stop to Antigua
Singapore	23h 55m	1 stop to Antigua
Tel Aviv	15h 50m	1 stop to Antigua

Scheduled gate to gate times on the fastest routing, with 1h 30m allowed for each connection. Airline schedules read October 17, 2026.

Healthcare

Care within reach.

Nearest emergency department1 kmSir Lester Bird Medical Centre

Best ranked within reachNoneNo hospital within reach is in the 2026 lists

Life expectancy, Antigua and Barbuda77.8years at birth, 2024

Doctors per 1,000 people2.9Antigua and Barbuda, 2017

Hospital beds per 1,0003.4Antigua and Barbuda, 2023

Health spending per person$841US dollars a year, 2023

Care coverage index81WHO, out of 100, 2023

GOV.UK says serious cases may need emergency evacuation but does not name a destination. Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre, formerly Mount St. John's Medical Centre, lists emergency services and is about 1 km from St John's.

Hospital	Role	Distance	Newsweek 2026	JCI
Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre	Nearest emergency department	1 km	Not ranked	No

Mid-table

Life expectancy at birth, years, the 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and Latin America on the board

Bermuda82.5
Puerto Rico81.9
Cayman Islands80.5
Panama79.8
Uruguay78.3
Turks and Caicos78.2
Antigua and Barbuda77.8
Argentina77.5
British Virgin Islands77.4
Barbados76.3
Mexico75.3
Bahamas74.7
Dominican Republic73.9
St Kitts and Nevis72.3

Note: Antigua and Barbuda ranks 7 of 14. Latest year published for each, 2024.

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, latest year for each country

Hospital ranks from Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026. Accreditation from the Joint Commission International directory. Distances in a straight line from St John's, from OpenStreetMap. Country figures from the World Bank and the WHO, the latest year each publishes. Checked 23.10.2026. Research, not medical advice.

Within reach

Near St John's on the board.

Christophe Harbour🇰🇳 St Kitts and Nevis

Gustavia🇫🇷 St Barths

Anguilla🇦🇮 Anguilla

Virgin Gorda🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands

San Juan🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

Platinum Coast🇧🇧 Barbados

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Questions

How much income tax does a $1M earner pay in St John's?

About $0 a year, an effective 0%, which leaves $1M of $1,000,000 on Patrician.ch's 2026 model.

At $300K the effective rate is 0%, and at $3M it is 0%. Income tax on the published 2026 rules. Social contributions, most deductions and treaties are not modeled. No personal income tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax. Citizenship by investment since 2013.

Does St John's tax capital gains?

No. A resident individual in St John's pays no capital gains tax on a disposal of listed securities.

A liquidity event realized after residence begins is not taxed locally. The country you leave can still apply its own exit rules to a gain that accrued while you lived there.

Does St John's have a wealth tax?

No. Antigua and Barbuda levies no general annual wealth tax on a resident's net worth.

Does St John's have an inheritance tax?

No. Antigua and Barbuda levies no inheritance or estate tax.

What a child pays: nothing. Source: Antigua and Barbuda Inland Revenue, current to October 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 St John's?

No personal income tax. These figures sit on the US$200K floor the 5 Eastern Caribbean programs have observed since 01.07.2024, and all 5 are moving under one regulator, ECCIRA, which has no agreed start date yet. The EU has asked all 5 to phase out citizenship by investment by 1 June 2028 under its visa suspension rules. Routes that matter for money: Citizenship by investment.

What is the cost of living in St John's?

St John's scores 82 on the Patrician.ch cost index, where Zurich is 100, and ranks 61 of 100 on cost, 1 being the most expensive.

Safety scores 6 of 10 and schools 5 of 10, with 2,900 sun hours a year. Cost, safety and schools are Patrician.ch editorial indices, not published statistics.

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