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🇧🇦 Moving to Bosnia & Herzegovina: tax, residency and cost of living
Flat tax 10% (FBiH) after high employee contributions (31%), CIT 10%, VAT 17%. BAM pegged to the euro (currency board). Non-EU, EU candidate; complex three-entity system.
Thinking of moving to Bosnia & Herzegovina? Here is the tax, residency, property and quality-of-life picture in plain numbers, with sources.
Key facts
- Top income tax
- 10%
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- Capital gains
- 10%
- Wealth tax
- No
- Inheritance tax
- Yes
- Cost of living index
- 42.5
- Safety
- 7/10
- Internet quality
- 7/10
- Visa-free destinations
- 121
- Foreigners can own property
- Yes
- Residency in
- 0 months
- Citizenship in
- 0 years
Honest trade-offs
- Politieke instabiliteit en etnische verdeeldheid: zwakke centrale staat, aanhoudende secessie-retoriek vanuit Republika Srpska; Freedom House classificeert BiH als 'Partly Free' (2025). Institutionele blokkades raken rechtszekerheid en verblijfsprocedures.
- Buitenlands vastgoedbezit is toegestaan op basis van wederkerigheid, maar landbouwgrond en grensgebieden kennen beperkingen; drie parallelle fiscale/registratiestelsels (FBiH-kantons, RS, Brcko) maken eigendom en belasting complex.
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