{"id":4844,"date":"2025-01-14T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:11:40","slug":"spain-ends-golden-visa-program-proposes-100-tax-on-foreigner-home-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/01\/14\/spain-ends-golden-visa-program-proposes-100-tax-on-foreigner-home-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain ends &#8220;Golden Visa&#8221; program, proposes 100% tax on foreigner home purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/realestate\/spain-axes-popular-golden-visa-plans-100-tax-on-foreign-buyers-in-response-to-housing-crisis\/ar-BB1rs9B7\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/realestate\/spain-axes-popular-golden-visa-plans-100-tax-on-foreign-buyers-in-response-to-housing-crisis\/ar-BB1rs9B7\">Spain axes popular golden visa, plans 100% tax on foreign buyers in response to housing crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Proclaiming that &#8220;too many Airbnbs&#8221; have led to a housing crisis, Spain&#8217;s prime minister said he wants to implement a slew of new policies that includes a tax of up to 100% on homes purchased by buyers outside of the European Union.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary options for obtaining EU residency are that you have immigration privilege:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>About 1\/3 of Americans (as described in media stories) obtain residency or citizenship via marriage. Of those, about 90% are educated, attractive, young American women.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>About 1\/3 have prior dual citizenship or right of descent ancestry privilege.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Of the remaining 1\/3, about half have work visas and half are not stated. U.S. military personnel stationed abroad account for a large part of this category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining option has been residency via investment &#8211; that too is becoming more restricted with some countries ending such programs and others raising the minimum investment required to high levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, Canada is mid-way through its two year prohibition on any one that is not a citizen or permanent resident from buying real estate in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of buying a residency in the EU seems to be gradually ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}