TAX residency for different countries

Countries with residential TAX systems have different regulations to determine whether you are taxable.

Mostly the "half year stay" rule is applied for individuals.

The questions to the countries

An official inquiry to the different countries concerning the regulations and laws about the "tax residence" resulted in very different responses.

Criteria for Individuals to be considered a tax resident

Please list the domestic legal provisions that determine whether an Individual is to be considered a tax resident of that jurisdictions. Such legal provisions may be articles of the relevant tax code (with hyperlinks to the provisions themselves, where possible), as well as any further regulations specifying the residency criteria (if available, with hyperlinks).

This section should ideally also provide further guidance for Individuals to determine whether they are a resident for tax purposes in the jurisdiction, presented either in narrative form or by means of hyperlinks to the relevant sections of the government or tax authority website or publications.

Criteria for Entities to be considered a tax resident

Please list the domestic legal provisions that determine whether an Entity is to be considered a tax resident of that jurisdiction. Such legal provisions may be articles of the relevant tax code, as well as any further regulations specifying the residency criteria. Ideally, also a list of domestic Entity types that are in principle considered tax residents of the jurisdiction should be included (if available, with hyperlinks).

This section should ideally also provide further guidance for the different types of Entities to determine whether they are a resident for tax purposes in the jurisdiction. It can be presented either in narrative form or by means of hyperlinks to the relevant sections of the government or tax authority website or publications.

Entity types that are as a rule not considered tax residents

This item should ideally provide a list of entity types that are considered fiscally transparent by the jurisdiction or are considered to have no tax residence by the jurisdiction based on other criteria, including a particular legal status or tax regime (such as trusts, foundations, partnerships, investment funds etc.), but are considered to have a nexus with the jurisdiction, in particular due to the fact that the entity was incorporated or is organised under the laws of the jurisdiction or has its place of effective management within the jurisdiction. Jurisdictions may wish to complement this section with further guidance on their domestic rules on the topic, either in narrative form or by inserting relevant hyperlinks.

Contact for further information

Please provide the contact details of the competent service within their tax authority, which can be contacted in case of further questions on tax residency.

(EU Member States can furthermore refer to the Taxes in Europe Data Base maintained by the European Union, which contains a wide range of information on all taxes in the EU Member States, including on tax residency.)

The answers from the countries

We have prepared the official answers for web display and published them here, sorted by country:

Albania
Andorra
Argentina
Aruba 🔒
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas 🔒
Bahrain
Belgium
Belize 🔒
Bermuda 🔒
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cayman 🔒
Chile
China
Colombia
Cook-Islands 🔒
Costa-Rica
Croatia 🔒
Curacao 🔒
Cyprus 🔒
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador 🔒
Estonia
Faroe Islands 🔒
Finland
Germany
Gibraltar 🔒
Greece
Greenland
Guernsey 🔒
Hong-Kong 🔒
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Isle of Man 🔒
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jersey 🔒
Korea
Kuwait 🔒
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao 🔒
Malaysia 🔒
Malta 🔒
Marshall Islands 🔒
Mauritius 🔒
Mexico
Montserrat
Nauru 🔒
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Saint Lucia 🔒
Saint Vincent and Grenadines 🔒
Samoa 🔒
San-Marino 🔒
Saudi-Arabia
Seychelles 🔒
Singapore 🔒
Slovak-Republic
Slovenia
South-Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Trinidad-and-Tobago
Turkey
Turks-CaicosIslands 🔒
United Arab Emirates
United-Kingdom
United-States
Uruguay