Head to head
Cape Town vs Grand Baie (Mauritius).
🇿🇦 South Africa against 🇲🇺 Mauritius, on tax, residence, cost, and the life. Same model, same year, no brochure.
🇿🇦 South Africa against 🇲🇺 Mauritius, on tax, residence, cost, and the life. Same model, same year, no brochure.
| Cape Town | Grand Baie (Mauritius) | |
|---|---|---|
| Effective tax at $300K | 42% | 19% |
| Effective tax at $1M | 44% | 20% |
| Effective tax at $3M | 45% | 20% |
| Kept at $1M | $560K | $803K |
| Capital gains | 18% | 0% |
| Cost index (Zurich 100) | 40 | 60 |
| Safety | 4/10 | 7/10 |
| Schools | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Sun hours | 3,100 | 2,900 |
| Supercar street index | #77 | #78 |
| Routes in | Golden visa, Founder & talent, Remote work visa | Golden visa, Remote work visa |
| Net millionaire inflow 2025 (country, Henley) | n/a | n/a |
| Flight London | 12.8 | 12.8 |
| Flight New York | 16.2 | 19.1 |
Simplified marginal model, indicative 2026 brackets, non-US single filer, no social contributions, deductions, wealth taxes, or treaties.
Grand Baie (Mauritius) keeps more of a $1M salary, $244K a year on this model. Cape Town answers with schools.
Capital gains: Cape Town 18%, Grand Baie (Mauritius) 0%. The order of operations, move then sell or sell then move, decides more than the rate. Neither city taxes wealth as such.
Cape Town leads on schools, a lower cost and sun, Grand Baie (Mauritius) on safety.
The engine takes what you earn and what you hold, then orders every address on the board against it.
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Tax figures use a simplified marginal model with indicative 2026 brackets for a non-US single filer, ignore social contributions, most deductions, wealth taxes, and treaties, and are not advice. Residence rules change often. Verify before acting.