Author: Anaïs

For British professionals and retirees, Mauritius sits at the sharper end of the shortlist: a stable, English-speaking jurisdiction with a progressive income tax topping out at 20%, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax and a residency permit that takes weeks rather than years. Against a UK tax system where higher earners hand over 40% […]

The Part Nobody Talks About Every Mauritius expat blog tells you how to arrive. How to get your permit, open a bank account, find a school, rent a villa. What almost nobody discusses is what happens when you leave. People leave Mauritius for all kinds of reasons. A job opportunity elsewhere. Ageing parents who need […]

Nobody Warned Me About the Cheese I moved to Mauritius eighteen months ago from London, and the thing I was least prepared for was the price of cheddar. A block of Cathedral City that costs £3.50 at Tesco runs MUR 450 (about £8) at the Jumbo hypermarket in Riche Terre. Parmesan is worse. A decent […]

The Short Answer Mauritius is the safest country in Africa and significantly safer than most places expats emigrate from. The intentional homicide rate is 2.2 per 100,000 inhabitants (2022 data), lower than the United States (6.3), comparable to France (1.34), and laughably far from South Africa (45). There are no armed gangs, no carjackings, no […]

The Hidden Tax on Every Transfer Every expat in Mauritius sends money. Pension payments, property deposits, monthly living costs, school fees, business capital. And every time you use a traditional bank to do it, you are paying a tax you never agreed to: the exchange rate markup. Banks do not advertise this cost. They call […]

The Great Northward Migration South Africans are not moving to Mauritius because they suddenly fell in love with tropical islands. They are moving because Mauritius offers something South Africa increasingly does not: predictability. Predictable electricity, predictable safety, predictable government. The island is not perfect (we will get to that), but for South African families weighing […]

Africa’s wealthiest country per capita. Ranked 22nd globally on the Global Peace Index. The only Sub-Saharan African nation in the top tier of World Bank ease-of-doing-business rankings. And a corporate tax rate that makes accountants in Paris and London do a double take. Use the Mauritius tax calculator to estimate your own tax liability. Mauritius […]

Why Mauritius Keeps Drawing Britons Eastward The UK-to-Mauritius pipeline is not new. Mauritius was a British colony until 1968, English remains an official language, the legal system still leans on common law, and you drive on the left. For British expats, it feels familiar enough to be comfortable and foreign enough to be interesting. What […]

You need health insurance in Mauritius. The public system is free and functional for emergencies, but anyone planning to stay long-term and wanting reliable care will go private. I covered the broader healthcare picture in the healthcare guide, so this piece focuses on the specific question: which international insurer should you actually go with? Three […]

Mauritius has a tropical maritime climate: warm year-round, with two loose seasons rather than four. It rarely gets cold. It never snows. And the temperature difference between summer and winter is smaller than most people expect. What does vary, significantly, is rainfall and the risk of cyclones. Two seasons, not four Mauritius has a warm, […]