Head to head
Anguilla vs Gustavia.
Anguilla leaves about $442K more of a $1M income in hand each year than Gustavia, on the Patrician.ch 2026 model. 🇦🇮 Anguilla against 🇫🇷 St Barths, compared on tax, residence, cost and the life.
In short, current to October 2026
- On $1,000,000 of income, Anguilla takes an effective 0% and Gustavia takes 44%, so Anguilla leaves about $442K more in hand each year on the Patrician.ch 2026 model.
- On a capital gain realized after residence begins, Anguilla charges 0% and Gustavia charges 35%. On a $5,000,000 event that is a difference of about $1.8M.
- Anguilla is modeled with no special regime for arriving foreigners. St Barths operates: For the first 5 years a new resident is treated as a French tax resident and pays French income tax on worldwide income. From the sixth year St Barths tax domicile applies, with no income tax and French tax only on French source income.
- Inheritance, what a child pays: nothing in Anguilla, yes, above €150,000 in Gustavia.
- Route in: Anguilla by Lump sum residence, Residence by investment. Gustavia by Founder & talent.
- Cost of the life is 95 in Anguilla against 132 in Gustavia on the Patrician.ch index where Zurich is 100, and safety 7 against 9 of 10. Both are Patrician.ch editorial indices scored by us, not published statistics.
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 . Cite as: Patrician.ch, Anguilla vs Gustavia (St Barths): tax, residence and cost 2026, patrician.ch/compare/anguilla-vs-st-barths/, October 2026.
