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Spain Tax Residency Test
Spanish residence has no partial-year concept: you are resident for the whole calendar year or none of it. Any one of the three limbs below is enough on its own, and the family presumption catches people whose own day count is well under the threshold.
Looking for the full explanation? Read the complete guide to Spain tax residency, which covers each limb of the test in detail alongside this tool.
- Day count
- Centre of interests
- Family presumption
Stage 1 of 3 · Day count
Day count
How many days were you present in Spain during the calendar year?
Count days of physical presence. Note that short trips abroad ("sporadic absences") are added back to this count unless you can produce a tax residence certificate from another country.
Residency tests for other countries
- Spain residency: full guide and FAQs
- All tax residency tests
- United Kingdom — Statutory Residence Test
- Ireland — Tax Residence Test
- United States — Substantial Presence Test
- Australia — Residency Tests
- Portugal — Tax Residence Test
- United Arab Emirates — Tax Residency Test
- South Africa — Residency Tests
- France — Domicile Fiscal Test
- Italy — Tax Residence Test
- Canada — Residency Test
- India — Residential Status Test
- Germany — Unlimited Tax Liability Test
- Switzerland — Tax Liability Test
- Cyprus — Tax Residence Test
- Thailand — Tax Residence Test