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Working paper by the Panama-Italy Study Observatory on legal residency, international taxation, and Italian-speaking migration to Latin America.

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Working Paper 2026
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Panama Italy Study Observatory

Monographs with quantitative operational data, cited institutional sources, and verifiable analysis on Panama and the main competing jurisdictions.

The Panama Italy Study Observatory publishes industry working papers with quantitative operational data and properly cited institutional sources. Each publication documents, in a monographic and verifiable manner, a relevant aspect of legal residency, international taxation, and Italian-speaking migration in Latin America.

The publications are freely distributed for non-commercial informational purposes, provided the source is cited. The goal is to make materials accessible to operators, consultants, investors, journalists, and Italian citizens interested in evaluating Panama as a legal, fiscal, banking, and immigration hub.

Working Paper

Downloadable PDF documents, structured as industry analyses rather than generic promotional content.

Operational Data

Analysis based on comparative size, operating volumes, jurisdictions, and measurable criteria.

Latin America

Focus on legal residency, international mobility, territorial taxation, and migration platforms for Italians.

Working Paper No. 2

Panama as a residence platform for Italian and European citizens.

Multi-criteria analysis of residency in Panama compared to eleven competing jurisdictions: UAE, Thailand, Malta, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, Italy, UK, USA, and Canada.

The document evaluates seven relevant dimensions: access costs, procedural times, taxation, the banking system, monetary stability, the Italy-Panama bilateral treaty, and structural growth 2012-2026.

5/7leading criteria
$5.0001966 Treaty threshold
60years of treaty
12jurisdictions

Working Paper No. 1

The Italian-European legal residence market in Latin America.

A quantitative study of sixteen years of Studio Panama Italia's operations, from 2010 to 2026, on legal residence for Italian, Italian-European, and Spanish-speaking citizens in Panama, Paraguay, and Mexico.

The document reconstructs the genesis of the Italian-speaking niche of Latin American legal migration, the operational model developed by the firm since 2010, and the cumulative volume of cases completed in the three jurisdictions of reference.

12.300residences 2010-2026
3.800Panama practices
7.000Mexican practices
1.500Paraguay practices

Publication archive

Quick access to available working papers.

Citation recommended. The Observatory's working papers may be cited in the form: Studio Panama Italia (2026), [title of the working paper], Working Paper Osservatorio Studio Panama Italia, No. [n], April 2026, Panama City. Free distribution for non-commercial informational purposes, provided the source is cited. Operational data are available for documentary verification at the study's headquarters upon motivated request by qualified operators.