What Patrician.ch tracks.

• Tax: Income tax at any income, social contributions where modeled, capital gains, wealth tax, inheritance and gift tax, the special regimes for new arrivals, and the exit rule of 35 home countries. Read from the tax law of each place, checked every day.
• Residence: The route in for a foreign national, by passport: on arrival, a standard permit, an investor or elective route, or a quota permit, with what each one asks.
• Safety and governance: Safety, read against published crime data at every edition. Rule of law on the World Bank governance indicators, and freedom on Freedom House.
• Health and family: The best ranked hospital within reach and the nearest emergency department, on the Newsweek and Statista list. International schools, and happiness on the World Happiness Report.
• Daily life: Infrastructure, air links and real scheduled flight times, clean air on IQAir, traffic on the TomTom Traffic Index, English on the EF index, hours of sun and the cost of the life.
• Business and wealth: Corporate tax on PwC and the Tax Foundation, competitiveness on the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, and the resident millionaires counted for Henley & Partners.
• Luxury and property: The prestige of the address, the houses of watches, cars and fashion, the season, dining and night life, culture and beauty, and prime property prices from Knight Frank, UBS and BARNES.
• One score: All of it carried into the Patrician.ch 100, 100 places on one scale, and into every Dossier on the reader's own numbers.

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