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Singapore day-count rules

Spending time in Singapore? The rules below can affect tax residency, your right to remain and any path to residence or citizenship. This page brings Singapore's day-count rules together — each explained in plain English, with a calculator and a link to the official source.

Tax residency

• 🇸🇬Avoid Singapore tax residencyResidence is triggered at 183 days in a tax year, so the safe ceiling is 182. Day count is one test among several in most systems — ties, home and centre of interests can make you resident on fewer days.<=182 / YEAR
• 🇸🇬Become Singapore tax residentReaching 183 days in a tax year triggers residence under the day-count test.>=183 / YEAR

Visas & entry

• 🇸🇬Singapore visit passThe stamp decides: 90 days is common, 30 days is frequent, and officers grant less to repeat visitors.<=90 / VISIT