How to qualify for tax residency (60/90-day rules)
Day counting is not only defensive. If you are establishing a tax home — for a favorable regime, a residency certificate, or treaty protection — you need to reach a threshold, and prove it. Bounded counts in that direction too.
The qualifying presets
- Cyprus 60-day rule — tax residency with just 60 Cyprus days, provided you are not resident elsewhere and keep local ties.
- UAE tax residency — the 90-day and 183-day routes, both covered.
- Portugal NHR — the residency count underpinning the NHR regime.
- Puerto Rico Act 60 — the presence test for the US territory’s incentives.
- Become Tax Resident — the generic version: any country, any threshold, counting up.
How 'reach at least' counters behave
These counters run with the goal Reach at least: the progress bar fills toward the threshold, and crossing it is success rather than a warning — the exact inverse of a stay-under tax counter. Any tax preset can be flipped between the two goals in the builder, so the same rule serves both sides of the line.
Proving it
Tax authorities granting residency certificates ask for evidence of presence. Export the PDF report — the day-by-day log with data sources reads like the documentation they want, and the country detail screen gives you the same picture in-app.
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