Compare Belize vacation rental information from our sponsor ads. Anyone forty-five years and older from anywhere in the world can qualify for the Belize retirement program. A person who qualifies can also include his or her dependents in the program. Dependents include spouses and their children under the age of eighteen. However, it can include a person under the age of twenty-three if enrolled in a university.

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To be designated a Qualified retired person under the program, applicants must receive a monthly income of not less than US $2,000 through an approved pension or annuity that has been generated outside of Belize.

A Qualified Retired Person shall be exempt from the payment of all taxes and levies on all income or receipts which accrue to him or her from a source outside of Belize whether that income is generated from work performed or from an investment.

All applications are subject to a background check to be carried out by the Ministry of National Security.

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