Colombia — Taxes
- Colombia taxes its tax residents on worldwide income — not territorial
- Top personal income tax rate is 39%; corporate is 35%
- A wealth tax applies to residents’ worldwide net worth above a threshold
- Inheritances are taxed as occasional gains, broadly at 15%
- VAT is 19%
Worldwide taxation — the honest headline
Like Mexico and unlike Panama, Colombia taxes its tax residents on worldwide income, at a top personal rate of 39%. Become resident — 183 days or more in a year — and your global income falls in scope. Anyone pitching Colombia as a tax haven is not being straight with you.
A wealth tax as well
Colombia’s reform made permanent a wealth tax on residents’ worldwide net worth above a threshold (broadly assets over roughly 800,000 USD). Non-residents are taxed only on Colombian-situated wealth. This is a real, recurring cost that the territorial options do not have.
Other rates
Corporate income tax is 35%, VAT is 19%, and inheritances and gifts are taxed as occasional gains, broadly at 15%.
Residency, presence and citizenship
The investor visa requires genuine presence — at least 180 days a year — and holding it makes you tax-resident once you cross that line, though it does not remove obligations to a country that taxes on citizenship, such as the United States. Colombia’s draw is cost of living, a large market and a fairly short citizenship horizon, not tax efficiency. Weigh it against the territorial options of Panama and Paraguay, read our tax hub and residency hub, and see how each figure is checked in our methodology.
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