Property tax in St Kitts & Nevis
See what St Kitts & Nevis's tax rules do to your property portfolio.
What Freeholt models for property, income and retirement in St Kitts & Nevis, and what it does not.
Free to start. No card. Rules reviewed 22 August 2026.
Modelled here
- Tax on rental income
- Capital gains on a sale
- Duty on purchase
- Annual property or land tax
XCD · Rates as at 22 August 2026 · Estimates, not advice
No income tax, no CGT and no inheritance tax. Foreign buyers pay a ~10% alien landholding licence unless buying through the CBI programme (real estate route min US$400k, 7 year hold).
How rental income is taxed in St Kitts & Nevis
For a resident owner: There is no tax on residential rental income. For an owner living abroad and renting this out: There is no tax on residential rental income.
Capital gains on a sale
Gains are taxed at a flat 20%. The gain is fully exempt once the property has been held 1 years.
Annual property tax while holding
About 0.5% a year on the property value.
What it costs to buy
No purchase or transfer duty is charged. A foreign buyer pays a further 10% on top. ~10% alien landholding licence for foreign buyers (waived via CBI); stamp duty is customarily the seller's.
Can a foreign buyer purchase here?
A foreign buyer needs approval before purchasing. Every non national needs an Alien Landholding Licence under the Aliens Land Holding Regulation Act, costing 10% of the property value and taking roughly four to six weeks. It is a regulatory fee rather than a tax, and it is waived where the purchase is an approved citizenship by investment property.
Where the tax actually lands
St Kitts & Nevis taking nothing does not mean nobody does. An owner who is tax resident somewhere that taxes worldwide income generally pays tax on the rent and any gain from this property THERE, at that country's rates, with credit for anything paid here. That makes the owner's country of residence the thing that decides the tax bill on this property, not the country the property sits in. Freeholt models the residence side separately, so setting a country of residence in the app shows the whole picture rather than a zero.
How Freeholt models St Kitts & Nevis
Every rate above is priced from Freeholt's own table for St Kitts & Nevis and runs through the whole projection: rental income, a modelled sale and the annual holding costs all use the same figures. They cannot be edited yet, so a position that differs from the defaults has to be read with that in mind. The estimate assumes an individual owner rather than a company or trust, and where a rule is not modelled it is listed below rather than quietly priced at zero.
What running this property costs
In St Kitts & Nevis this covers the annual property tax, insurance, maintenance and management. THE REAL RATE IS WELL BELOW THE 0.5% THIS PAGE SHOWS: under the Property Tax Act 2006 St Kitts charges 0.2% of market value on residential land and 0.2% on the building with the first XCD 80,000 of building value exempt, so the Inland Revenue Department's own worked example on an XCD 140,000 home comes to XCD 120, or 0.086%. Nevis runs its own schedule. Treat the modelled figure as conservative and correct it against a real bill.
How borrowing works here
Foreign buyers usually pay cash; the EC dollar is pegged at XCD 2.70 = USD 1.
What actually happened here
We hold no measured run of our own for this country yet, so there is nothing to draw. We will not fill the gap from a neighbouring market.
What Freeholt models here
- ModelledTax on rental income
- Resident and non resident rates, with interest and losses treated under the local rule.
- ModelledCapital gains on a sale
- Priced in the year of the sale under the rules of that year.
- ModelledDuty on purchase
- No general duty on a purchase; the charge a foreign buyer pays is priced.
- ModelledAnnual property or land tax
- Charged every year the property is held.
- Not yetIncome tax beyond the rent
- Not modelled for this country yet.
- Not yetDividends, interest and share sales
- Not modelled for this country yet.
- Not yetRetirement savings
- Not modelled for this country yet.
- Not yetInheritance and what happens on death
- Not modelled for this country yet.
What Freeholt does not model here
- Inheritance and estate tax
- Treaty relief between this country and the owner's country of residence
Coverage deepens country by country. Every figure is an estimate, not advice.
Compare with another country
Each page is built from the same table the app runs on, so the figures line up side by side.
Compare St Kitts & Nevis with another country — rent, gains, annual tax and duty, side by side.
Questions people ask
- Does Freeholt model St Kitts & Nevis property tax?
- Yes. Rental income tax, capital gains on a sale, duty on purchase and annual property or land tax are priced from Freeholt's own rate table for St Kitts & Nevis. The rates are not editable yet, so one that differs in a particular case cannot be overridden. Every figure is an estimate, not advice.
- How is rental income from St Kitts & Nevis taxed if I live somewhere else?
- There is no tax on residential rental income. Tax may also be due in the country of residence, with credit for what was paid here. Estimates only, not advice.
- What are the St Kitts & Nevis figures as at?
- The rate table for St Kitts & Nevis was last reviewed on 22 August 2026. Freeholt date stamps every country rather than implying all of them were checked on the same day. Estimates only, not advice.
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