Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) taxes resident individuals generally on worldwide income (with a remittance-basis carve-out for non-domiciled residents' foreign-source income, described in the Residency section of this page) and companies at a 28% standard corporate rate as of 2026, administered by the Inland Revenue Department. Approved enterprises may qualify for reduced rates under the Fiscal Incentives Act, and International Business Companies and LLCs meeting statutory offshore-activity conditions receive a 25-year total tax exemption under the Limited Liability Companies Act.
Per the Inland Revenue Department's own official guidance (ird.gov.vc), the fiscal year is the calendar year; corporate tax returns are due three months after the company's financial year-end, and individual income tax returns are due on or before 31 March following the calendar year in which the income was earned.
28% standard rate for 2026. Approved enterprises may qualify for reduced rates under the Fiscal Incentives Act.
Progressive on worldwide income for residents (non-residents taxed on local-source income only), 0% to a 30% top rate. KPMG also confirms the government increased the personal income tax exempt threshold for 2026 as part of the same reform package that cut the corporate rate.
16% standard VAT (in effect since May 2017); 11% reduced rate for the hotel sector.
An individual is resident if their permanent place of abode is in SVG and they are physically present there for some period during the tax year, unless the Comptroller is satisfied their absence was for education, medical treatment, government duties abroad, or similar reasons; a secondary day-count framing used elsewhere puts this at more than 183 days in a calendar year. A company is resident if incorporated in SVG and managed and controlled there, or simply if incorporated in SVG. Resident individuals are generally taxed on worldwide income, but non-domiciled residents (foreign nationals resident in SVG without SVG domicile) are taxed on foreign-source income only to the extent it is remitted to a local SVG bank account - a remittance-basis carve-out rather than a fully worldwide or fully territorial system.
A non-resident company or individual is brought within SVG's tax net on SVG-source income, generally through a fixed place of business or dependent agent; SVG levies no withholding tax on royalties paid to residents, and the jurisdiction's overall narrow domestic corporate tax base (no capital gains tax, extensive IBC/LLC exemptions) limits how often a conventional PE analysis becomes decisive in practice.
No CFC regime was found in SVG's Income Tax Act or in any secondary source addressing SVG's international tax framework. This is consistent with SVG's overall design: the jurisdiction's own domestic corporate tax base is narrow (no capital gains tax, no withholding tax on royalties to residents, and a 25-year total tax exemption for international business companies and LLCs meeting statutory offshore-activity conditions under the Limited Liability Companies Act), leaving little structural role for an attribution regime aimed at undistributed foreign subsidiary profits.
No thin capitalization ratio or related-party interest-deduction cap was found for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines classifies entities according to its own domestic Income Tax Act rather than offering an elective check-the-box system, and no anti-hybrid mismatch regime addressing double-deduction or deduction-without-inclusion outcomes has been identified, consistent with SVG having no CFC regime of its own, as described elsewhere on this page.
No domestic FBAR-equivalent regime requires SVG residents to separately disclose foreign financial accounts. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a CRS participating jurisdiction, having signed the CRS Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement in October 2015 with exchange beginning September 2018. US persons remain independently subject to FinCEN Form 114 (FBAR) and potentially Form 8938 regardless of SVG's own rules.
No general participation exemption regime for dividends or capital gains from a qualifying subsidiary was identified in SVG's Income Tax Act; the jurisdiction's narrow domestic tax base (no capital gains tax at all) achieves a broadly similar practical effect for share disposals without a distinct minimum-ownership exemption mechanism tied to dividends specifically.
A dedicated unilateral foreign tax credit mechanism is not confirmed in available primary sources. SVG maintains double tax treaties with the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the UAE, which provide the primary relief mechanism for double taxation on income connecting SVG to those specific treaty partners; relief outside this network should not be assumed available.
SVG maintains double tax treaties with the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, plus a separate double taxation treaty with the UAE. SVG has not signed a bilateral investment treaty with the United States, though it has signed reciprocal investment-protection agreements with Germany and the UAE. As a CARICOM member under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, SVG-based investors also get preferential access to the wider CARICOM single market, and CARICOM itself maintains bilateral agreements with Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela.