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Are you an Indian tax resident this year?

182 days in India in a tax year makes you resident here for tax, and that can pull a salary you earn in Europe into India's tax net. Count yours from your own travel dates.

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The counter

Money between India and Europe

Each stay in India is one row: the day you arrived and the day you left. Arrived before 1 April? Leave 'Arrived' blank. Still in India, or left after 31 March? Leave 'Left' blank. Your passport stamps and airline emails have the dates. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Your days in India, counted

1 Which tax year? Needed

India's tax year runs from 1 April to 31 March. Only days inside it count.

2026 means 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
2 Your time in India this tax year Needed: at least one trip

One row per trip: the day you arrived in India and the day you left. Already in India on 1 April? Leave "Arrived" blank. Still in India? Leave "Left" blank. Trips mustn't overlap.

3 About you Leave as No if they don't apply

These change the day line in India's second test from 60 days to 120 or 182.

4 Days in India in the four years before Only if this year is under 182 days

Under 182 days this year, the second test also looks at the four years before: 365 days or more in total. One number per year; blank counts as zero.

5 Moved to Europe? Optional

Shows when the country you moved to may start counting you as resident there.

Your result

The tests

Income-tax Act 2025, section 6
182 days or more in the tax year: resident (s.6(2)(a)).
60 days or more in the year, plus 365 days or more in the four years before: resident (s.6(2)(b)).
Leaving for a job abroad? For an Indian citizen who leaves India in the year for employment abroad, the 60 becomes 182 (s.6(3)).
Visiting from abroad? For an Indian citizen or person of Indian origin living abroad who visits, the 60 becomes 182, or 120 if Indian income is above ₹15 lakh (s.6(4), s.6(5)). Resident through the 120-day line: the counter flags 'resident but not ordinarily resident'. Read s.6(13).

Read section 6 at source: Income Tax Department. When India and a European country both treat you as resident, India's tax treaty with that country breaks the tie, usually in Article 4. The treaty texts are on the Income Tax Department site.

The other side

Residence rules in Europe

The country you move to runs its own clock. The headline rule in eight of them, the one the counter uses:

Germany and Austria: resident from the day you take a home there, or after a stay of more than six months (§§ 8, 9 Abgabenordnung; § 26 BAO).
United Kingdom: 183 days or more in the UK tax year (6 April to 5 April) makes you resident automatically. Other tests, such as your only home or full-time work there, can do it with fewer days (Statutory Residence Test).
Ireland: 183 days or more in the calendar year, or 280 days over this year and last together. A year with 30 days or fewer doesn't count (Revenue).
Italy: most of the calendar year (183 days, 184 in a leap year) present, living, with your family ties or registered there (TUIR art. 2, from 2024).
Spain: more than 183 days in the calendar year, or your main business or economic interests there (Ley 35/2006, art. 9).
France and the Netherlands: no day count on its own. France looks at your home, main place of stay, main work and economic interests (CGI art. 4 B); the Netherlands at the facts of your life there (Belastingdienst).

The headline rule only. Each country has more, and a home there can make you resident from day one. Check with its tax authority before you rely on a date.

Worked example

From Corridor #02

You were in India from before 1 April and flew to Europe for a new job on 15 October 2026.

The October moverResult
Days in India, travel day counted / not198 / 197
Day you reached 18229 Sep 2026
Result on both countsResident, s.6(2)(a)
Day-count date in Europe15 Apr 2027 in Germany or Austria (six months). Not reached that tax year in the UK, Ireland, Italy or Spain: too few days left after 15 October.

1 April to 29 September is exactly 182 days. Leave after that and India can tax your new European salary up to March. File, and claim credit for the tax you pay there.

Get the sheet

Free
Google Sheet · Excelv1.1 · 16 Oct 2026 · CC BY 4.0

India residency day counter

You enter: your stays in India for one tax year, days in the four years before, three Yes/No questions, and the European country you moved to and the day you arrived.
It shows: your days counted two ways, the day tests you meet, the date you crossed 182, and the date that country may start counting you as resident (eight countries covered, with the rule for each). Keep one tab per tax year as your record.
It won't: decide your residence under the treaty, or work out any tax.
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Make a copyDownload .xlsx

Known limits

Read these first
  • Travel days: the counter shows two counts, one counting the day you arrive and the day you leave as days in India, one not. The statute we read doesn't settle it. If the answer changes between the two, ask a CA.
  • It doesn't decide treaty residence. When both countries treat you as resident, India's treaty with that country breaks the tie on your home and your life (usually Article 4), which no tool can see.
  • The European date is the headline day count only. A home there can make you resident from day one, and France and the Netherlands don't use a day count at all.
  • The deemed-resident rule (s.6(7)) and the full 'not ordinarily resident' tests get a flag, not a verdict.

Tested against six hand-checked cases (v1.0, 11 October 2026), including a leap-year February and a stay that straddles 31 March, and nine European country dates (v1.1, 16 October 2026).