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Question on Asset Transfers across multiple citizenships

wellington

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Nov 14, 2020
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I never really considered this before but imagine a scenario where.

1) Citizenship of say Bahamas transfers to self as Citizenship of UK.

Whats the taxation criteria there as its essentially self-transfer, and even in the scenario where you 'gift' to another dependent on facts/circumstances it can be gifted freely, i.e curious how states see this for asset(s).
 
Asset transfers to yourself aren't transfers in the proper sense. Hence, nobody will tax it. How can they? If you are British, for the eyes of UK you are only British. (I.e. back in the EU days, if you were British and Danish, you could apply for an EEA family permit in the UK for free, you had to go through the more expensive UK family visa. Unless you never told the British that you were also British and they had no record of it.)

If you are gifting/inheriting to other people, it most often depends on the place of residence, previous residence and in some case place of assets (like real estate or the recently discussed US stocks).
 
I never really considered this before but imagine a scenario where.

1) Citizenship of say Bahamas transfers to self as Citizenship of UK.

Whats the taxation criteria there as its essentially self-transfer, and even in the scenario where you 'gift' to another dependent on facts/circumstances it can be gifted freely, i.e curious how states see this for asset(s).
Why would you want to do that ? Are you considering go back to the UK ?
 
How does wealth tax work? Are there lower thresholds where you don't have to pay tax in countries where such a tax is implemented? There are even EU countries that don’t have a wealth tax or an exit tax, as far as I understand.
 
How does wealth tax work? Are there lower thresholds where you don't have to pay tax in countries where such a tax is implemented? There are even EU countries that don’t have a wealth tax or an exit tax, as far as I understand.
Most countries do not have wealth tax. Switzerland for example has it. You have 77,000 CHF free after that you pay in Zürich:
https://neho.ch/de/blog/vermogenssteuer-zurich

Exit tax for natural persons is basically just taxing capital gains. Hence it only applies to counties with capital gains tax, which Switzerland in turn suits not have (at least not directly, you just pay wealth tax and I hope you invest it wisely so you pay less than capital gains tax would be).
 
Most countries do not have wealth tax. Switzerland for example has it. You have 77,000 CHF free after that you pay in Zürich:
https://neho.ch/de/blog/vermogenssteuer-zurich
some cantons have up to 100,000 CHF and up to 120,000 CHF which helps the middle class. But that's a different discussion.


There are even EU countries that don’t have a wealth tax or an exit tax, as far as I understand.
exit tax is something else.