What changed in Honduras

Prospera adopted Bitcoin as legal tender inside the zone, directly against the national CNBS ban and BCH's position

Crypto tax and legal status

A Prospera entity is, from the Dutch side, an entity of contested existence, and it may not even hold a Honduran tax number

Moving your company

The genuine low-tax opportunity in this corridor is ordinary territorial Honduras, not Prospera

Residency routes

Prospera's own arbitration center publishes a disclaimer telling residents they assume all risk of loss

Residency routes

The Roatan municipality has already physically closed a Prospera building over unpaid local tax

Moving your company

Customs suspended the ZEDE agreement, so the claimed import duty exemption is not being honoured at the border

Moving your company

SAR stopped issuing tax numbers to ZEDE entities, and Honduran banks froze their accounts, on Prospera's own sworn account

Moving your company

Prospera's Delaware-derived legal system and arbitration are real and functioning, but foreign enforcement of its awards is genuinely uncertain

Moving your company

Prospera's entity formation runs roughly USD 150 plus USD 130 a year residency and USD 150 to 300 a year for a registered agent, on a registry the state does not recognise

Moving your company

The USD 5,000 lump-sum tax program produces a Tax Residency Certificate, and it does not end your Dutch tax residence

Personal income tax

Prospera advertises 5 percent personal, 1 percent business and 2.5 percent retail VAT, all operator claims on an annulled statute

Personal income tax

Prospera itself advertises e-Residency at USD 130 a year and physical residency at USD 260, plus mandatory liability insurance on top

Residency routes

Prospera residency does not replace Honduran immigration status, it was never designed to and it still is not

Residency routes

Prospera ZEDE has no valid Honduran legal foundation, and every other Prospera claim in this corridor keys off that fact

Residency routes

The conserverende aanslag no longer lapses after 10 years, and Honduras adds a security requirement on top

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

A Dutch BV's statutory director stays inside Dutch wage tax unconditionally, and Honduras can tax the same work too

Personal income tax

If Honduras does not actually tax the wage, the Dutch employer must keep withholding on all of it

Employer payroll obligations

Under a 30-day block, Dutch relief needs proof Honduras actually taxed the work, which usually will not exist

Personal income tax

A single 30-day-or-longer block of work in Honduras gets Dutch exemption without needing Honduras to tax anything

Personal income tax

With no treaty there is no agreed PE threshold, and a home-working employee who can sign contracts is a live exposure

Permanent establishment risk

Honduras is not FATF grey-listed, but that reading rests on a decade-old evaluation

Crypto tax and legal status

Honduras does not automatically exchange financial account information with the Netherlands, and that is a risk to manage, not a benefit to bank on

Crypto tax and legal status

Supervised banks are banned from crypto since February 2024, but you personally are not

Crypto tax and legal status

A Honduran company actually managed from the Netherlands can still be a Dutch taxpayer, and no treaty resolves the clash

Moving your company

Corporate tax is 25 percent, plus a 5 percent solidarity surcharge and two further 1 percent floors

Moving your company

An S de RL forms from L 5,000, an SA from L 25,000, and neither capital floor is the real barrier

Moving your company

Residency applications carry a USD 200 fee, thirteen document requirements, and a reported 3-year path to permanence

Residency routes

Honduran employment for a foreigner is a permiso especial the employer files, not a residency category

Residency routes

Investor residency needs USD 50,000 invested plus a USD 5,000 refundable Central Bank deposit

Residency routes

Pensionado needs USD 1,500 a month from abroad, and comes with a statutory income tax exemption on top

Residency routes

Rentista residency needs USD 2,500 a month, but you may not draw a salary, and the income must be routed through a Honduran bank

Residency routes

Residency comes from a closed list of eight categories, and employment is not one of them

Residency routes

True employee cost runs about 14 months of salary a year once the 13th, 14th month and severance are counted

Employment law

The 2026 minimum wage is a two-year tripartite deal, L 9,596.64 to L 19,298.72 across 12 activity bands including free zones

Employment law

IHSS is thin outside formal employment, private care is the practical answer, and Roatan has no tertiary hospital

Healthcare coverage

Genuinely emigrating to Honduras ends Dutch volksverzekeringen, and voluntary continuation is the only fix

Social security

RAP carries two separate charges, a 4 percent employer-only reserve fund plus FOVIIF's 1.5 plus 1.5 percent, and INFOP adds 1 percent on top of everything

Social security

IHSS contributions run in two branches, and the system was rebuilt by decree after its own framework law was struck down

Social security

No social security treaty at all links the Netherlands to Honduras, not even an export mechanism

Social security

The RTN tax number is free, fast, and the gateway to everything in Honduras

Local registrations

Municipal tax is real, separate from national tax, and Roatan has already shown it enforces

Personal income tax

Sales tax runs 15 to 18 percent, and services performed even partly in Honduras are not the export they might look like

Personal income tax

Annual returns run 1 January to 30 April, paid in four instalments across the year including the year-end balance

Personal income tax

Dividends and capital gains sit outside the progressive scale, both flat at 10 percent

Personal income tax

2026 individual rates run exempt to 25 percent, indexed automatically each year by statute

Personal income tax

As a non-resident, Honduran-source pay is withheld at 25 percent or 10 percent depending on what it is for

Personal income tax

Whether work physically performed on Honduran soil is Honduran-source is unresolved, and the identical question resolved against the taxpayer in Paraguay

Personal income tax

Honduras is territorial, and foreign-source income of a resident is genuinely untaxed, no special zone required

Personal income tax

Past three months in the calendar year you are a Honduran tax resident, and that trigger arrives before your tourist ceiling does

Tax residency

Under roughly three months you are not a Honduran tax resident, and there is no 183-day test at all

Tax residency

A Honduran employer needs 90 percent Honduran headcount and 85 percent Honduran payroll before it can hire you

Right to work

Tourists may not perform lucrative activities, and remote work for a foreign employer is a genuine untested grey zone

Right to work

Past 120 days you are outside every tourist route in the whole CA-4 area

Immigration and visa

Past 90 days there is exactly one 30-day extension, and it is discretionary

Immigration and visa

Visa-free entry to Honduras for up to 90 days, pooled across the whole CA-4 area

Immigration and visa