Vanuatu legal history
Changes are dated by their legal effective date. Each category and resident group has a separate timeline.
Only listed events are shown; completeness has not been established.
No dated legal events recorded yet for Vanuatu.
Coverage by tax category
- Personal income tax: Unknown
- Social contributions / payroll: Unknown
- Self-employment: Unknown
- Capital gains: Unknown
- Dividends and interest: Unknown
- Crypto: Unknown
- Rental income: Unknown
- Wealth tax: Unknown
- Property tax: Unknown
- Inheritance, gift and estate: Unknown
- Corporate and business tax: Unknown
- Consumption / VAT: Unknown
- Exit and transfer tax: Unknown
- Other taxes: Unknown
Computed tax on fixed baskets
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Nominal rates and thresholds
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Data updates we recorded
These dates show when Sovereign recorded a figure, not when a law took effect.
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Volunteer Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Student Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Specialist Skills Visa (up to two weeks). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Special Category Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Social Exchange Visa (12 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Short-Term Employment Visa (1–4 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Retiree Visa (age 50+). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Self-funded Resident. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Partner of a Vanuatu citizen. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Leasehold Holder. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Foreign Investor. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Employee. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Residence Visa — Child of a Vanuatu citizen. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Religious Worker Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Provisional Investor Visa (12 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Permanent Residency Visa — Subclass 131 (Part A). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Permanent Investor Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Ni-Vanuatu Descent Visa (12 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Disaster Recovery Visa (12 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Direct Investor Visa (up to 8 years). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Development Support Visa. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Close Family Visa (12 months). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Residence route added: Business Investor Visa (3 years). Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Now covered: citizenship data for Vanuatu. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Top rate on rental income: not computed → 12.5%. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Top rate on interest: not computed → 0%. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Top rate on long-term capital gains: not computed → 0%. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-11: Top rate on dividends: not computed → 0%. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-10: Now covered: residence data for Vanuatu. Legal effective date not verified
- 2026-11-10: Now covered: cost of living data for VU. Legal effective date not verified