Hungary — Taxes
- A flat 15% personal income tax
- Corporate tax is 9%, the lowest headline rate in the EU
- VAT is 27%, the highest standard rate in the EU
- The Guest Investor Programme gives residence, not citizenship
- Holding the permit does not by itself make you tax-resident
A flat, simple income tax
Hungary levies a flat 15% personal income tax, one of the simplest regimes in the EU, and a 9% corporate tax, the lowest headline rate in the bloc. The trade-off sits in consumption: VAT is 27%, the EU’s highest standard rate. There is no wealth tax.
The Guest Investor Programme is residence, not a passport
Relaunched in late 2024, the programme grants a ten-year EU residence permit for 289,000 USD in units of an approved Hungarian real-estate fund, or a 1,155,000 USD donation to a higher-education institution. There is no minimum-stay rule to hold it.
The road to citizenship
Naturalisation is not part of the programme. It requires eight years of residence, a Hungarian-language exam and a constitutional-knowledge test — a separate, far longer path. Judge the Guest Investor route as a long-term EU residence base, not a passport plan.
Residency, tax residence and duties elsewhere
Becoming Hungarian tax-resident turns on presence and your centre of life, not on merely holding the permit, and the permit does not remove obligations to a country that taxes on citizenship, such as the United States. Compare Hungary with the golden visas of Greece and Portugal, read our residency hub and tax hub, and see how each figure is checked in our methodology.
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