Muscat: The Sultanate's passport is currently ranked 99 in the most powerful passport index, with a total score of 65.50, which is based on the government's approach not just to travel, but also to international taxation laws, global perception, dual citizenship, and personal freedom, according to Nomad Capitalist, the tax and immigration consultancy.
For the Oman Travel score calculation, the firm relied on publicly available passport data and news sources to rank travel access.
Based on that data, Nomad assigned Oman a Travel score of 95 as there are 40 countries that Oman passport holders can enter without a visa (i.e. visa-free countries), 49 countries that allow Oman passport holders to enter by obtaining a visa on arrival (i.e. visa-on-arrival countries) and 6 electronic travel authorization (eTA) destinations.
Altogether, Oman passport holders can enter a total of 95 destinations — either without a visa, through a visa on arrival, or via an eTA. Separate from these 95 destinations, there are 155 additional destinations for which Oman passport holders either need a physical visa to enter or an eVisa.
For the Oman Taxation score calculation, Nomad relied on data from our network of tax vendors, news sources, and tax authorities themselves.
Nomad assigned the lowest score of 10 to countries that tax citizens no matter where they live, scores of 20 or 30 to countries that allow citizens to relocate to avoid tax, 40 to those that don’t tax foreign incomes of resident citizens, and 50 to countries with zero tax. Based on that data, we assigned Oman a Taxation score of 50, meaning that Oman has zero taxes.
The United Arab Emirates has the strongest passport in the world, according to a new index.
The country jumped from being tied for 32nd place on last year’s ranking to the No. 1 spot, according to a new index by the tax and immigration consultancy Nomad Capitalist.
The Emirati passport leaped up the list because it has visa-free travel privileges to most places (181 in total), no income taxes, and an ever-increasing presence on the world stage, all of which make it attractive to aspiring global citizens, the company said.
How the ranking works
Unlike other rankings that focus solely on visa-free travel privileges, the “Nomad Passport Index 2023” assesses five factors each given different weightings:
Other than visa-free travel, the categories are assessed by scores that vary from 10 to 50, said Jovana Vojinovic, Nomad Capitalist’s director of operations and sales.
For example, taxation is based on the long-arm reach of a country’s tax laws, as well as a country’s tax rates:
Citizen-based tax: where passport holders pay no matter where they live — score of 10
Resident-based tax: where residents are taxed on worldwide income — score of 20 (if rates exceed 50%) or 30 (if they don’t)
Territorial tax: where income made within the country is taxed — score 40
No income tax — score of 50
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