Middle East · Levant
Jordan
The region's only real citizenship-by-investment programme — but the passive USD 1m deposit route that made it interesting is gone, the passport ranks 85th, the citizenship is revocable if you stop hitting payroll targets, and its two genuine advantages (territorial tax and no CRS exchange) are both on a clock.
Tax position
- Income tax (top)
- 30% top marginal rate (bands from 5% to 30%, top band above JOD 1,000,000), plus a 1% National Contribution Tax on taxable income above JOD 200,000 — effective top roughly 31%
- Capital gains
- generally exempt — capital gains generated within the Kingdom are exempt except gains on depreciable assets. Share sales (listed and unlisted) broadly exempt; domestic dividends from Jordanian resident entities exempt
- Wealth tax
- none
- Inheritance tax
- none
- Special regime
- Territorial in practice — Jordan taxes income incurred in or from Jordan; foreign-source income of resident individuals is broadly outside scope. Jordan is a Global Forum participant but has NOT signed the CRS Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement and does not yet exchange information automatically; it has voluntarily committed to implement AEOI but no first-exchange date is confirmed.
- Territorial
- Yes — foreign-source income generally outside scope
- CFC rules
- No
- Exit tax
- No
- CRS
- Not participating
Closed — listed so you do not chase them
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