Custom counter recipes

A 183-day rule on a fiscal year

India counts April 1–March 31; South Africa March 1; the UK April 6. Recipe: add Avoid Tax Residency (Tax tab → Generic), set the country, set the year start to the fiscal year’s first day, and adjust the threshold if the rule isn’t exactly 183. The counter now resets on the fiscal new year, not January 1.

A rolling '183 in the last 365' rule

Some countries (Indonesia, Brazil’s entry-based rule) count a moving window rather than any calendar. Recipe: Custom → Type Rolling window → Days in → Stay under → Target 183, In the last 365 days. One honest caveat: this watches the window ending today; statutes phrased as “any 12-month period” can technically breach in a past window — if that distinction matters for your rule, ask us for a dedicated preset.

A visa with a per-visit cap and an annual limit

Saudi visit visas, and similar “90 days per stay, 180 per year” rules. Recipe: Custom → Type Per visit → Max per visit 90, then enable the Rolling cap with target 180 over 365 days (or check the Visa tab first — India’s preset already models exactly this shape).

Staying under 183 days everywhere

The full-nomad pattern: no single country should ever claim you. There is no one counter for “every country at once” — day math differs per country — so the recipe is one Avoid Tax Residency counter per country you actually spend serious time in (most nomads need three or four). Your Your top list shows exactly which countries deserve one.

An absence limit for a permit we don't have a preset for

Recipe: Custom → Direction Days away → Stay under → your cap. Use Per visit for consecutive-absence rules (“never away more than 180 straight days”) or Rolling window for absence budgets (“at most 90 days away per year”). Set the start date to when your permit was granted so earlier travel doesn’t count against it — more in absence counters.

What genuinely needs a preset from us

• weighted multi-year formulas (like the US Substantial Presence Test),
• dual simultaneous caps (UK Naturalisation’s 450/5y + 90/12mo),
• “any window” evaluation over past periods,
• rules that count working days or midnights rather than calendar days.

For these, email us the rule with a link to the official source if you have one — preset requests are the most common way the catalog grows, and once added, your rule works for every user with your situation.