Tax residency calculator

Tax status does not come with a residence permit and cannot be changed by application. It is counted on the calendar, and one day can change the rate: a non-resident of Russia pays 30% on Russian income instead of 13-22%. The calculator above checks your dates against the rules of 146 countries; below are the same rules in plain text.

How many months is 183 days

183 days is half a year plus a couple of days. Arrive on 1 January and stay put, and day 183 falls on 2 July, or 1 July in a leap year.

The catch is that tax offices count calendar days, not months, and every trip breaks the count. Three winter months, two weeks in May and a summer out of town add up not to half a year but to an exact number that is easy to miss by a day or two. That is why the calculator asks for dates, not impressions.

How days are counted for tax residency

Countries agree only on a threshold of roughly half a year. Everything else - the period, the rule for the day of entry, ties to the country - each decides for itself. The calculator knows four ways of counting.

A rolling 12 months is trickier than the calendar. Half a year here and half a year there across the turn of the year often adds up to 183 days in a window that spans December and January.

Russian tax non-resident: how the calculator counts

For Russia the calculator shows two numbers. The first is days in Russia over the last 12 months: employers and brokers use it to set the rate on each payment date. The second is days in the calendar year: the tax office uses it for the final status at 31 December.

Example: you leave on 12 March 2026 and do not come back. In 2026 you spend 71 days in Russia, fewer than 183, so you are a non-resident for the whole year. The day you fly out counts as a day in Russia, as does the day you fly in.

What changes for a non-resident is covered on the taxes in Russia page and in the article on Russian tax non-residents.

Where the threshold is not 183 days

183 days is the most common threshold, but not the only one. A few countries count their own way, and they are where people slip most often.

There are traps the other way too. In Germany, Czechia and Estonia an owned or rented home makes you resident, in Latvia a declared place of residence does. Days may not matter there at all. Namibia has no day rule at all: ordinary residence decides.

And some countries have no personal income tax at all. In Kuwait, Bahrain, Brunei, the Bahamas, Vanuatu, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda individuals pay no tax on wages or investments. There are no days to count: the calculator shows how to prove residency and which levies still apply.

Capital gains, dividend and crypto tax by country

Residency decides more than the tax on your salary. It sets how much you lose on selling shares, on dividends and on crypto: a UAE resident pays 0%, a French resident 31.4% on the same gain.

The calculator shows these rates in its result for the chosen country. Below is a summary table for all 146 countries in the calculator, the most requested first.

To compare whole countries - where foreign income is untaxed, what breaks new residents get and where there is no inheritance tax - see relocation taxes 2026.

Here time literally works for the investor. In Germany crypto held over a year sells tax-free, in Serbia shares and homes sell tax-free after 10 years. Turkey leaves the foreign income of new residents untaxed for 20 years, Israel that of new immigrants for 10, and Georgia and the UAE do not tax it at all.

Europe has perks for newcomers too. Cyprus spares new arrivals tax on dividends and interest for 17 years, and the UK leaves new residents' foreign income untaxed for 4 years. In Switzerland a private investor sells shares and crypto tax-free, and in the Czech Republic after 3 years of ownership.

Outside Europe there is room to breathe too. Hong Kong taxes neither dividends nor gains as long as you invest rather than trade. Uruguay gives new residents 11 years free of tax on foreign investment income, and Thailand has exempted crypto sold on licensed Thai exchanges until the end of 2029.

Some countries go the other way. The Netherlands taxes a deemed return rather than the real one: the tax office assumes shares and crypto earn 6% a year. Norway adds an annual wealth tax to its 37.84% on dividends, while in Slovenia patience pays: shares and property sell tax-free after 15 years.

Zero tax on investments is not just a UAE story. Singapore, Monaco, Qatar and Saudi Arabia tax a private investor on neither dividends nor share sales. Malaysia exempts foreign income until 2036, while Oman will bring in a 5% tax on income above about $110,000 from 2028 - the first in the Persian Gulf. On Pacific and Caribbean islands zero is even more common: Nauru and the Marshall Islands tax wages and business but not private investment income, and Grenada taxes only local income and leaves dividends alone.

Elsewhere the tax hides in the small print. Luxembourg lets shares and crypto go tax-free after just 6 months, and Liechtenstein does not tax dividends but adds a deemed 4% of your wealth to income every year. In South Korea crypto stays untaxed by law until 2027, and India takes 30% of crypto gains with no loss offset.

In the Americas, tax on investments often depends on where the money comes from. Panama and Costa Rica tax only local income: foreign dividends and shares sold abroad stay tax-free. So do El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras, and El Salvador also leaves bitcoin exchanges untaxed. The Dominican Republic leaves foreign investment income alone for the first two years, Chile does not tax a foreigner's foreign income for three years, and Barbados taxes residents without local domicile only on what brings a benefit on the island. Canada adds half of a capital gain to income, and Colombia takes 15% of gains on assets held two years or more.

In Africa the spread is even wider. Mauritius does not tax gains on securities and crypto, and taxes foreign income only once the money reaches the island. Egypt charges a 0.05% stamp duty on the trade instead of tax on gains from listed shares, and Cabo Verde takes just 1% of the price when property or shares are sold. South Africa adds 40% of a gain to income, Morocco takes 15% of gains on listed shares, and Namibia taxes neither gains nor a resident's dividends.

The rates are for a private investor without a business. Country details are on our tax pages: follow the country name in the table or the link in the calculator result.

How to confirm tax residency

Your status is confirmed by a tax residency certificate. The country's tax authority issues it: the Federal Tax Service in Russia, the Federal Tax Authority in the UAE, the Tax Department in Cyprus. Banks, brokers and your former country need it so you do not pay tax twice.

The law does not stop you from applying on your own. But mistakes cost more: a refusal over an incomplete day count, dual residency with no treaty between the countries, your former country charging tax for the whole year. Murblz support removes these risks: we count days under both countries' rules, gather the evidence, obtain the certificate and prepare notifications about foreign accounts and companies. We guarantee professional work and a transparent process, and in most cases a result on the first filing. A manager will calculate the support fee in the chat.

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