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Thailand day-count rules

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

Tax residency

• 🇹🇭Avoid Thailand tax residencyResidence is triggered at 180 days in a tax year, so the safe ceiling is 179. Day count is one test among several in most systems — ties, home and centre of interests can make you resident on fewer days.<=179 / YEAR
• 🇹🇭Become Thailand tax residentReaching 180 days in a tax year triggers residence under the day-count test.>=180 / YEAR

Visas & entry

• 🇹🇭Thailand visa exemptionSixty days per entry since July 2024, extendable once by 30 days at an immigration office. Land-border entries are watched more closely than air arrivals.<=60 / VISIT