Paraguay taxes territorially. Only income earned inside the country is of interest to the tax office — which is why the residency attracts people whose income is generated somewhere else entirely.
Only what you earn inside Paraguay matters to the tax office. Everything else — freelance clients in Berlin, a rental in Miami, a portfolio in Singapore — stays off the books entirely. That is what a territorial tax system means in practice.
For income earned inside Paraguay, the flat rate is 10% — among the lowest in the region.
| Rate | |
|---|---|
| Foreign income tax | 0% |
| Flat domestic rate | 10% |
| Capital gains on foreign assets | 0% |
| Inheritance tax | None |
There is no tax on capital gains from assets held abroad. No inheritance tax to hand your family a bill at the worst possible moment. No wealth tax shaving at your net worth every year.
Paraguay also sits outside the CRS information-sharing framework, so your financial life stays private by default.
These are two separate things, and conflating them is the most common mistake we see. Immigration residency gives you the right to live here. Tax residency — and the RUC tax identification number that formalises it — is a further step you take after your Cédula is issued.
Your obligations in your current country do not disappear because Paraguay declines to tax your foreign income. US citizens in particular remain subject to worldwide taxation regardless of where they reside. What Paraguay offers is the absence of a second layer, not the removal of the first.
No. Paraguay’s territorial system only taxes income earned inside Paraguay. Foreign clients, investments, and businesses abroad are completely exempt.
Paraguayan law does not require physical presence to maintain your residency. That said, we recommend temporary residents visit once a year and permanent residents once every three years to keep their file active and reinforce their ties to the country.
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