Guides & how-tos

Tax residency, day counting, and the rules that catch people out.

Clear, practical guides to the day-count rules that decide where you owe tax - and exactly how to track each one automatically with Tax Residency Tracker on iPhone.

Country Guides Moving to Bali as an App Developer: Nomad Visa, KITAS and the 0.5% Tax What an app or SaaS developer really pays in Indonesia - when the nomad visa keeps you at 0%, when a KITAS makes you resident, and how the 0.5% turnover tax with its tax-free band works. 9 min read Country Guides UK Statutory Residence Test: How Many Days Can You Stay? How the UK Statutory Residence Test decides your tax residence - the automatic overseas and UK tests, the sufficient-ties test, how days are counted at midnight, and how to track UK days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Spain's 183-Day Rule and Tax Residency, Explained How Spain's 183-day rule works: the calendar-year count, temporary absences, the centre-of-economic-interests test, the family presumption, and tracking your days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Portugal Tax Residency: The 183-Day Rule After NHR When you become a Portuguese tax resident: the 183-day rule over any rolling 12 months, the habitual-home test, and what NHR ending (and IFICI/NHR 2.0) means in 2026. 9 min read Country Guides UAE & Dubai Tax Residency: The 183-Day and 90-Day Rules How to become a UAE tax resident in 2026: the 183-day rolling rule, the 90-day route for HNWIs, the centre-of-interests test, and why a treaty TRC still needs 183 days. 9 min read Country Guides The Cyprus 60-Day Rule and Non-Dom Status, Explained How to become a Cyprus tax resident on just 60 days: the four conditions, the 183-day alternative, non-dom benefits, and the 2026 change that dropped the 'resident elsewhere' bar. 9 min read Country Guides Thailand's 180-Day Rule and Foreign-Income Remittance Tax When 180 days in Thailand makes you a tax resident, how the 2024 foreign-income remittance rule works, the pending 2026 changes, and how to prove your day count. 8 min read Country Guides Canada's 183-Day Rule and Tax Residency, Explained How Canadian tax residency works - residential ties, the 183-day deemed-resident rule for sojourners, departure tax, and how to track your Canadian days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Australia's 183-Day Test and Tax Residency Rules How Australian tax residency works - the resides, domicile, 183-day and super tests, the July-June income year, the stalled bright-line reform, and tracking days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides German Tax Residency: The 183-Day Rule and the Apartment Trap How German tax residency really works - the Wohnsitz dwelling trap with no day minimum, the six-month habitual-abode rule that spans years, and tracking your German days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides French Tax Residency: 183 Days, Foyer and the Four Tests How France decides tax residency - the foyer household test, the 183-day principal-sojourn rule, work and economic-interest tests, and how to track French days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Italy's 183-Day Rule After the 2024 Reform How Italian tax residency works now - the physical-presence test where even part of a day counts, the new domicile definition, the Anagrafe presumption, and tracking days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Singapore Tax Residency: The 183-Day Rule Explained How Singapore's 183-day rule works - the preceding-year count, the 2-year and 3-year concessions, the 60-day exemption, resident vs non-resident rates, and tracking days on iPhone. 7 min read Country Guides Mexico Tax Residency: Why There Is No 183-Day Rule How Mexican tax residency really works - the casa habitacion home test, the centre-of-vital-interests tiebreak, the 180-day tourist visa confusion, and tracking days on iPhone. 7 min read Country Guides Indonesia Tax Residency: The 183-Day Rule and Bali Nomads How Indonesia's 183-day rule really works - the rolling 12-month window, KITAS and intent, nomad visas vs tax residency, and how to track your Indonesian days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Leaving Germany: How to End German Tax Residency How to actually stop being a German tax resident - giving up the Wohnsitz, Abmeldung, the exit tax on shareholdings, the 10-year extended liability rule, and tracking your move on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Moving to Singapore: Your First-Year Tax Residency Guide Arriving in Singapore mid-year? How the 183-day count, the non-resident first-year trap, and the 2-year and 3-year concessions decide your tax - and how to track your days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Leaving the UK: Split Year, Day Limits and the 5-Year Rule How to leave UK tax residency cleanly - split year treatment, the leaver day limits by ties, form P85, the 5-year temporary non-residence trap, and tracking UK days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Malaysia Tax Residency: The 182-Day Rule Explained How Malaysia's 182-day rule works - the linked-period test, the 90-day rule, temporary absences, foreign-source income exemptions, and how to track your Malaysian days on iPhone. 8 min read Country Guides Costa Rica Tax Residency: 183 Days in a Territorial System How Costa Rica tax residency works - the 183-day count with sporadic absences, territorial taxation of local income only, the digital nomad exemption, and tracking days on iPhone. 7 min read