Head to head
The Hamptons vs Queenstown.
Income tax on $1M lands within $10K in The Hamptons and Queenstown, so a sale decides it: Queenstown taxes a resident's capital gain at 0% and The Hamptons at 33%. 🇺🇸 New York, United States against 🇳🇿 New Zealand, compared on tax, residence, cost and the life.
In short, current to October 2026
- On $1,000,000 of income, The Hamptons takes an effective 39% and Queenstown takes 38%, so Queenstown leaves about $10K more in hand each year on the Patrician.ch 2026 model.
- On a capital gain realized after residence begins, The Hamptons charges 33% and Queenstown charges 0%. On a $5,000,000 event that is a difference of about $1.7M.
- The Hamptons is modeled with no special regime for arriving foreigners. New Zealand operates: New tax residents are not taxed on most foreign income for 4 years, and there is no general capital gains tax.
- Inheritance, what a child pays: 40% above $15M, plus New York in The Hamptons, nothing in Queenstown.
- Route in: The Hamptons by Residence by investment, Founder & talent. Queenstown by Residence by investment, Founder & talent.
- Cost of the life is 142 in The Hamptons against 95 in Queenstown on the Patrician.ch index where Zurich is 100, and safety 9 against 10 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, The Hamptons (New York) vs Queenstown (New Zealand): tax, residence and cost 2026, patrician.ch/compare/the-hamptons-vs-queenstown/, October 2026.
