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If someone rents an Airbnb for a few months in a new location are they now a resident of that new location? If we aren't talking about residency then changing a
by ketamine__ 5y ago
If someone rents an Airbnb for a few months in a new location are they now a resident of that new location? If we aren't talking about residency then changing an association (whatever that means) seems arbitrary.
- jfrunyon 5y agoWe clearly are, in fact, talking about residency. > As someone who travels a lot (not recently!)
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- CydeWeys 5y agoProbably, yeah. You could say it's temporary residency or whatever, but by the several months point this is clearly more than a mere vacation. If you've been living in one place for several months now you more live there than anywhere else.
- ketamine__ 5y agoSo three out of twelve months is more than anywhere else? Nomads move every few months.
- jsnell 5y agoWhy do you think this is a matter of a few months? All we know is that the author hasn't traveled "recently". But yes, those kinds of thresholds are common when it comes to residency as an official concept for e.g. taxation. Usually the threshold is around 183 days, but there is no reason why it'd be obviously less arbitrary than other choices.
- _nalply 5y agoWhere do you have this strange number from? The factorization is 3 * 61.
- Wingy 5y agoIt’s 365 / 2, ~half of a year :)
- __zack 5y agoIt’s just over half a year
- cldellow 5y agoAs others have said, it's half of a year. But most importantly, it's the number that the US government uses on form 8840, the Closer Connection Exception Statement for Aliens: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8840.pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8840.pdf
- _nalply 5y agoThis answer is why I asked my somewhat stupid question. You know 183 days is weirdly specific. Why not just say 6 months or half a year? And know I know why, it's because US goverments uses this number as a cut-off for some legal consequences. Thank you!
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- ketamine__ 5y agoWhy do you think I'm talking about the author and not in general?
- lbotos 5y agoActually, in many countries, yes, a "tax resident". For the UK it's 31 days of more than 3 hours of work. I think it's the same for the US.
- 692 5y agoit's bit more complex than that (I've suffered regarding this) The Automatic Overseas Test You would normally be considered a non-UK resident if you meet any one of the following elements of the Automatic Overseas Test: You were considered as a UK resident in one or more of the previous three tax years, but you spend fewer than 16 days in the UK in the current tax year You spend fewer than 46 days in the UK in the tax year AND you were non-UK resident in the preceding three tax years You work full time outside the UK and spend fewer than 91 days in the UK and you work fewer than 31 days in the UK for three hours or less in any given day.
- lbotos 5y agoYou're right, I shortcutted it. I've read this page so many times and just jumped to the "hyper conservative take".
- judge2020 5y agoRegardless, google might have to follow privacy laws of countries even if you set foot there for a layover or for only a few hours - google itself isn’t a country and thus other countries can effectively bully them into doing anything if Google wants to stay in business there. Not a problem for random island nations that have few citizens, but you can bet any sizable nation blacklisting them could mean an appreciable loss in revenue (and maybe triggering other countries to make similar demands).