Days-in-country tracker — free calculator
Turns a travel record into the day counts that residency tests and treaty employment articles actually use.
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Turns a travel record into the day counts that residency tests and treaty employment articles actually use.
Enter your figures
An estimate for planning only. Rates and thresholds used here are the assumptions stated on this page; we confirm every figure against the issuing authority for your own tax year before anything is filed.
How the estimate is built
Almost every cross-border employment position turns on a day count, and almost no organisation can produce one for a year that has ended. Part-days generally count as full days, several tests measure any twelve-month period rather than the calendar year, and the treaty employment article requires the employer and cost conditions to be satisfied alongside the count. Track it as you go.
Where to go from here
A calculator narrows the range; it does not settle a filing. If you already have an adviser, we will tell you what they should be asking rather than replacing them.
Checked and signed off for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. General guidance only. Your own facts decide the answer, so bring them to a call before relying on this.
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Cross-border situations we are engaged for
Reconstructing a year of travel from boarding passes and card records
A consultant asked us to confirm a treaty position for a year already closed, with no travel log of any kind. We assembled the record from passport stamps, airline confirmations, hotel folios and card transactions, resolved the dates where two sources disagreed, and counted arrival and departure days as whole days throughout. The engagement produced a dated day-by-day schedule with a source cited against each entry, and a written position on the test the client was relying on.
A rolling twelve month window that a calendar year count had missed
An engineer on a rotating site assignment had counted days by calendar year and was satisfied with the result. The test that actually applied measured any twelve-month period. We recounted on a rolling basis and found the position changed part-way through the second year of the assignment. The work produced a corrected count, a note of the date on which the threshold was crossed, and a filing position for both years that reflected the rolling measure rather than the calendar one.
Employer cost recharge that defeated a count the client had passed
A short assignment sat well inside the day limit, and the client had assumed the employment article applied. Reviewing the intercompany agreements showed the remuneration cost was recharged to the host entity for the assignment period. We set out how the employer and cost conditions operated alongside the count, and what the recharge meant for them. The engagement produced a written analysis, a revised withholding position for the host country, and a change to the recharge documentation for the assignments that followed.
Building a monthly tracker for a team of rotating site staff
An employer with staff rotating between two countries could not answer, mid-year, where any of them stood. We designed a monthly return for each worker capturing arrival and departure dates, and a consolidated count reviewed each quarter against the tests that mattered for that population. The engagement produced a working tracker, a written counting convention covering part-days and transit, and quarterly reports that let the employer see who was approaching a limit while the year was still open.
Part days that turned a comfortable position into a marginal one
A client's own count excluded travel days on the basis that only a few hours were spent in the country. Counting arrival and departure days as whole days, as the test requires, moved the total to within a handful of days of the limit. We documented the revised count, explained which convention produced the difference, and set out what evidence would be needed if the year were examined. The engagement produced a defensible count and a decision to change the following year's travel pattern.
Two countries counting the same trips on different bases
A frequent traveller faced questions from authorities in two countries about the same year, each applying its own measurement period and its own treatment of part-days. We produced one underlying travel record and two counts derived from it, each computed on the basis that country's test required, with the differences explained rather than smoothed over. The engagement produced a single sourced travel schedule and two separate written positions that were consistent with one another on the underlying facts.
A Student or Researcher Covered by a Treaty Article
Several treaties carry a dedicated article for students, trainees and visiting researchers that displaces the ordinary employment rules. Whether it applies turns on the purpose of the stay and the source of the funds, both of which are evidenced rather than asserted.
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India does not tax the inheritance itself, but the later sale and the money leaving the country both have positions of their own. The file establishes the cost base to use on that sale and what the remittance will require.
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