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Tax residency in Lithuania: the 183-day rule

High confidenceReviewed in September 20262 rules in this country

The short answer

183days in calendar year
Window
Calendar year
How it counts
Any presence during the day
Direction
Reaching the threshold makes you resident

How the days are counted

183 days or more in the calendar year. Any part of a day counts as a whole day and both arrival and departure count; transit of 48 hours or less does not. There is an oddity GPS cannot see: business trips and holidays abroad granted by a Lithuanian employer count as Lithuanian days.

There is also a second threshold of 280 days over two years, which we keep separately, and the count does not decide on its own.

The other rules of Lithuania

Lithuania · 280 over two years

Two calendar years

280 days adding two consecutive tax years, provided you spent at least 90 days in one of them. It is the door people walk through without ever reaching 183 in a single year. Someone resident only under the day thresholds is taxed on Lithuanian-source income, not worldwide, so the count does not decide on its own what you end up paying.

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