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Kept: what $1M a year keeps you in 100 places, 2026

Key figures

  • On $1M a year, 12 of 100 places leave all of it.
  • Tokyo leaves the least, $471,889, a gap of $528,111 a year.
  • The median place leaves $636K of $1M.

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, Kept: what $1M a year keeps you in 100 places, 2026, patrician.ch/visuals/kept-keep-index-100-1m-2026/, October 2026.

Each of the 100 places as a flag, in columns by what $1M keeps after income tax: 12 keep all of it, 43 sit between $500K and $599K, the largest column, and Tokyo keeps the least, $471,889.
Source: The Keep Index 2026, single resident, 2026 statutory brackets. As of 23 Oct 2026. Free to share unchanged, with credit to patrician.ch.

The picture ranks the 100 addresses on the Patrician.ch board by what a single resident keeps of $1,000,000 a year after income tax, worked out from each place’s own 2026 brackets, and sets the places that keep the most beside those that keep the least.

12 places take nothing on a resident’s income and sit together at the full $1M: Abu Dhabi, Anguilla, Christophe Harbour, Dubai, George Town, Monaco, Nassau, Panama City, Providenciales, Punta del Este, St John's and Virgin Gorda. At the other end, Tokyo keeps $471,889, with 52.8% taken. London keeps $568,350.

The figures are income tax only, before social contributions, for a single resident. The United States taxes its citizens wherever they live, so for an American none of the 0% places stays at 0%. The full table, the method and the open dataset are in the Keep Index 2026.

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The data

Every row in the picture.

#PlaceKept from $1M
1🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi$1M
2🇦🇮 Anguilla$1M
3🇰🇳 Christophe Harbour$1M
4🇦🇪 Dubai$1M
5🇰🇾 George Town$1M
6🇲🇨 Monaco$1M
7🇧🇸 Nassau$1M
8🇵🇦 Panama City$1M
9🇹🇨 Providenciales$1M
10🇺🇾 Punta del Este$1M
11🇦🇬 St John's$1M
12🇻🇬 Virgin Gorda$1M
13🇬🇮 Gibraltar$944K
14🇦🇩 Andorra la Vella$904K
15🇧🇲 Tucker's Town$888K
16🇭🇰 Hong Kong$846K
17🇲🇪 Tivat$832K
18🇱🇮 Vaduz$819K
19🇯🇪 Jersey$800K
20🇸🇬 Singapore$792K
21🇨🇭 Zug$787K
22🇨🇿 Prague$776K
23🇵🇫 Bora Bora$754K
24🇩🇴 Casa de Campo$752K
25🇧🇧 Platinum Coast$732K
26🇨🇭 Lucerne$724K
27🇨🇭 St. Moritz$723K
28🇭🇷 Hvar$707K
29🇵🇷 San Juan$688K
30🇺🇸 Austin$680K
31🇺🇸 Bal Harbour$680K
32🇺🇸 Coral Gables$680K
33🇺🇸 Dallas$680K
34🇺🇸 Las Vegas$680K
35🇺🇸 Miami$680K
36🇺🇸 Naples$680K
37🇺🇸 Palm Beach$680K
38🇮🇩 Bali$670K
39🇹🇭 Bangkok$666K
40🇹🇭 Phuket$666K
41🇨🇾 Limassol$663K
42🇲🇹 Valletta$661K
43🇲🇽 Cancún$661K
44🇲🇽 Los Cabos$661K
45🇲🇽 Tulum$661K
46🇦🇷 Buenos Aires$655K
47🇨🇭 Lugano$647K
48🇨🇭 Verbier$645K
49🇨🇭 Zermatt$645K
50🇺🇸 Aspen$637K
51🇨🇭 Zurich$636K
52🇨🇭 Gstaad$635K
53🇳🇿 Queenstown$622K
54🇺🇸 The Hamptons$611K
55🇨🇭 Geneva$600K
56🇨🇭 Montreux$585K
57🇺🇸 Maui$580K
58🇺🇸 Beverly Hills$578K
59🇺🇸 Malibu$578K
60🇺🇸 Montecito$578K
61🇺🇸 Newport Beach$578K
62🇺🇸 San Francisco$578K
63🇺🇸 New York$573K
64🇬🇷 Athens$571K
65🇬🇷 Mykonos$571K
66🇪🇸 Madrid$569K
67🇬🇧 London$568K
68🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo$567K
69🇮🇹 Porto Cervo$567K
70🇱🇺 Luxembourg$565K
71🇫🇷 Cannes$559K
72🇫🇷 Courchevel$559K
73🇫🇷 Gustavia$559K
74🇫🇷 Megève$559K
75🇫🇷 Nice$559K
76🇫🇷 Paris$559K
77🇫🇷 Provence$559K
78🇫🇷 Saint-Tropez$559K
79🇮🇹 Venice$559K
80🇮🇹 Lake Como$555K
81🇦🇺 Sydney$554K
82🇮🇹 Milan$554K
83🇩🇪 Munich$549K
84🇪🇸 Marbella$547K
85🇮🇹 Portofino$547K
86🇮🇱 Tel Aviv$544K
87🇮🇹 Capri$542K
88🇮🇹 Amalfi Coast$541K
89🇮🇹 Forte dei Marmi$538K
90🇮🇹 Tuscany$538K
91🇮🇹 Rome$537K
92🇪🇸 Ibiza$529K
93🇪🇸 Palma$529K
94🇪🇸 Barcelona$521K
95🇦🇹 Kitzbühel$519K
96🇦🇹 Vienna$519K
97🇵🇹 Lisbon$518K
98🇵🇹 Quinta do Lago$518K
99🇵🇹 Cascais$497K
100🇯🇵 Tokyo$472K

Source: The Keep Index 2026, single resident, 2026 statutory brackets. As of 23 Oct 2026. The page behind every figure: patrician.ch/research/keep-index-2026/.

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