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Portugal Residence Check

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Spending part of the year in Portugal? Check the 183 days in any 12 months, the habitual-home test that needs no day count, and where the US-Portugal treaty tie-breaker would land. Portugal counts any 12 months that start or end in the year, so an autumn season and the next spring's are counted together. And a home kept as your habitual residence can make you resident with far fewer days.

Portugal residence check

Portugal's residence tests, including the habitual-home test, and the US-Portugal treaty tie-breaker: does anything point to Portugal? It starts with Ray and Diane Collins's numbers: change any of them to yours.

Most days in Portugal in any 12 months starting or ending this year

The Residency Day Counter works this out from your trips.

Days in the US this year

Is your main income, business or investment management in Portugal?

Your home in Portugal

Do you keep that home as your habitual (main) residence?

Furnished, used as your base, where your life is when you're in Europe.

Do you keep a home in the US available all year?

How many of these are in the US: doctors, car, driver's licence, voter registration, main bank accounts, clubs or church, close family, mail

How many of the same are in Portugal

Low risk: Portugal's tests don't point to Portugal. You stay a US tax resident only.

Portugal's tests (any one is enough)

More than 183 days in Portugal in any 12-month period	No	150 days in Portugal. The 12 months can start or end in the year, so count across two calendar years.
A home in Portugal kept as your habitual residence	No	No home in Portugal kept as a habitual residence.

If both countries claimed you: the treaty tie-breaker

Permanent home: US. Your only home available all year is in the US.

The tie-breaker points to US. It only matters if Portugal claims you, which these answers don't suggest.

An education tool, not a ruling: Portugal's tax office judges all the facts, including ones not asked here. Portugal counts any 12-month period that starts or ends in the year, so a season in the autumn and another in the spring are counted together. If your answers come close, get advice before your next long stay.

For learning, not advice. The courses explain each rule and what to check with an adviser.