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It depends. Generally speaking, you don’t become a tax resident of a country unless you live there for 183 days in a given tax year. Even then, getting set up

It depends. Generally speaking, you don’t become a tax resident of a country unless you live there for 183 days in a given tax year. Even then, getting set up to pay taxes is a challenge, as tax departments aren’t set up to accept money from a tourist who doesn’t have any official ties to the country. It can be done, but it’s a pain. As a digital nomad myself, I always planned to just never stay in a country longer than six months. As an American, I have the joy of paying American taxes anywhere I live in the world, which makes things extra fun. For now, it seems systems are not streamlined to handle the burden of a high number of short term residents. Countries will adapt over time, as it seems Portugal is doing now. Some countries issuing digital nomad visas may exempt nomads from paying taxes or make it easier to pay taxes locally.

logifail 4y ago
> Generally speaking, you don’t become a tax resident of a country unless you live there for 183 days in a given tax year 183 days may indeed be sufficient to automatically qualify you for tax residency, but there are other tests, if you're not careful you may (unwittingly) become tax resident in a country with a stay of less than 183 days. Perhaps significantly less, depending on where else you've been (and for how long), and what you were doing in the year(s) before the year in question. See - for instance - the Statutory Residence Test ( https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rdr3-statutory-residence-test-srt/guidance-note-for-statutory-residence-test-srt-rdr3 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rdr3-statutory-re... ) in the UK.