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- What is the US substantial presence test?The IRS test uses at least 31 current-year days and a weighted 183-day total across three years — here is how the weighting works, with a worked example and the exceptions that change the result.
- How does the UK Statutory Residence Test work?The UK Statutory Residence Test uses automatic overseas and UK tests, then a sufficient-ties test where relevant.
- What is the 183-day rule for tax residency?Why 183 days is a common threshold, not a universal tax-residency answer, and why records of days and ties matter.
- Does spending 183 days make me tax resident?A cautious explanation of why a 183-day total can be important without being a universal residency verdict.
- Can a tax residency calculator determine my status?What a tax-residency calculator can usefully do and why an app should be framed as an early warning rather than a legal determination.
- How should I track tax residency days?A practical recordkeeping approach for tax-residency day counts, with clear limits on what a tracker can decide.
- How are days counted for UK tax residency?Why UK tax residency cannot be reduced to a simple 183-day counter and what records help with a Statutory Residence Test review.
- How the Cyprus 60-day tax residency rule worksCyprus lets you become tax resident on just 60 days a year — if you meet three further conditions on days elsewhere, work and a home. The rule, the tests, and the days to track.
- How is a digital nomad taxed in Portugal?Spend more than 183 days in Portugal in any 12-month period and you are generally tax resident on worldwide income. How the day count, a home, and the IFICI regime decide what a nomad owes.
- The 183-day rule in Germany, explainedIn Germany the 183-day rule is mostly a treaty test. Domestic residency turns on having a home (Wohnsitz) or a habitual abode (gewöhnlicher Aufenthalt) — which 183 days can trigger.
- Where are digital nomads tax resident?Digital nomads are not tax-free by default. Most stay resident in their home country until they break ties — and can pick up a second residency by overstaying anywhere. How the days decide it.
- How do I calculate the 183-day rule?To calculate the 183-day rule, count every day of physical presence in a country during its own tax year and compare the total with 183 — then repeat for every country you spent time in.
- Does the 183-day rule apply across Europe?There is no EU-wide 183-day rule. Most European countries use 183 days as a baseline, but each sets its own tax year and its own ties tests, so the line moves country to country.
- The 183-day rule when you're working abroadWorking abroad doesn't switch off the 183-day rule — it adds wrinkles. How workdays count, why a UK contract can keep you resident, and how to keep the day record straight in every country you work in.
- Tax residency rules by country, explainedMost countries use a 183-day baseline, but the tax year, the ties test and the threshold differ in every one. How residency rules vary by country, and how to keep a day record each of them would accept.
- What is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE)?The FEIE lets a US taxpayer abroad exclude foreign earned income up to an annual cap — if they pass one of two tests. How the exclusion works, which test fits which life, and where the day counting comes in.
- What is the bona fide residence test?The bona fide residence test is one of two ways to qualify for the FEIE — a facts-and-circumstances test built on a full tax year abroad, not a day count. Who it fits, and how it compares with the physical presence test.
- Form 8843 — who must file it, and howForm 8843 is how exempt individuals — chiefly F and J students, teachers and trainees — tell the IRS their US days should not count toward the substantial presence test. Who files, when, and what happens if you don't.