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Tax residency in Uruguay: the 183-day rule

Medium 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

More than 183 days in the calendar year. Absences of 30 consecutive days or fewer are treated as sporadic and counted as if you had been in Uruguay, unless you prove tax residency in another country. The law does not say whether the days of arrival and departure count.

There are also investment routes that make you resident on far fewer days, so the count does not decide on its own.

The other rules of Uruguay

Uruguay · 60 days with investment

Calendar year

This short route only exists if you own Uruguayan property worth more than 3,500,000 indexed units: then 60 calendar days of presence a year are enough. Without that investment, 60 days mean nothing and the counter you need is the 183-day one. Other investment routes ask for no days at all. The count does not decide on its own.

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