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Turks and Caicos

Corporate rate
0%
Top personal rate
0%
VAT / GST rate
0%
One-sentence summary Corporate tax: 0% - no corporate income or capital gains tax for local or international companies. Personal income tax: 0% - no personal income tax. VAT/consumption tax: 0% - no general sales tax or VAT; government revenue comes from import duties, stamp duty, and licensing fees.

Tax System

The Turks and Caicos Islands has no income tax of any kind, for individuals or companies. The territory has no CFC regime, consistent with the absence of an underlying income tax base.

Tax Year & Key Deadlines

Not applicable given the absence of an income tax system.

Corporate Tax Rate

0% - no corporate income or capital gains tax for local or international companies.

Personal Tax Rate

0% - no personal income tax.

VAT / GST Rate

0% - no general sales tax or VAT; government revenue comes from import duties, stamp duty, and licensing fees.

Residency

Residency has limited practical tax consequence given the absence of income, corporate, and capital gains taxation. Individuals working in TCI (employed or self-employed) are required to contribute to National Insurance and the National Health Insurance Board regardless of residency status. A TCI Exempt Company is generally exempt from all forms of local taxation for a 20-year period.

Permanent Establishment

Not applicable given the absence of a corporate income tax system.

CFC (Controlled Foreign Company) Rules

Turks and Caicos has no Controlled Foreign Company regime - a structural certainty rather than an unconfirmed gap, since TCI imposes no corporate income tax at all, leaving no domestic tax base for a CFC attribution rule to operate against.

Thin Capitalization

No statutory thin capitalization ratio was identified in available sources.

Hybrid Entity Rules

Not applicable given the absence of an income tax system.

Foreign Bank Account / Foreign Financial Asset Reporting

No foreign bank account or foreign financial asset reporting regime exists requiring residents to separately disclose foreign accounts - consistent with the absence of an income tax system generally, there is no annual tax return through which such disclosure would occur.

Participation Exemption

Not applicable given the absence of an income tax system.

Foreign Tax Credit

Not applicable given the absence of a domestic income tax against which foreign tax could be credited.

Treaty Network

Turks and Caicos has no comprehensive double tax agreements. It maintains 16 Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs) - narrower information-sharing instruments, not treaties providing double-tax relief - with Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. TCI has not signed the OECD's Multilateral Convention (MLI).

Official tax authority: Turks and Caicos Islands Revenue Department - gov.tc
Sources: GSL - Turks and Caicos tax system and treaties (16 named TIEAs), TaxAtlas - Turks and Caicos Islands Tax Rates and System (2026), Visit Turks and Caicos - official tourism/investment portal, Taxes, Legal 500 - Turks and Caicos Private Client Country Comparative Guide. Page last verified: August 08, 2026. General information only - confirm current rates with a licensed advisor in this jurisdiction before relying on this page.