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Domicile

or Residence rules.

Note that seperate definitions and differrent rules for domicile and resident depends exist for some countries but not others.

Usually resident means you are living in a country according to the laws for residence defined by the tax authority. When defined, domicile means that counry is your long term permanent home. There are a differrent set of rules to determine whether you are domiciled or not and in some countries (e.g. UK) you will be taxed differrently on some types of income when you are resident but not domiciled.

There is a further distinction making matters more complex in a very few countries including the UK. This is the concept of ordinarily resident. There are differrences in taxes payable but they are relatively small.

Here we compare the basic rules for residence between differrent countries:

Country	Residence Rule
Netherlands	If your life is mainly Holland based, you will be resident
France	If your life (home, work, economic interest) is mainly France based, you will be resident.
Thailand	6 months in any year
Singapore	6 months in any year
Brazil	6 months in any year
United Kingdom	6 months in any year or total 12 months in four years
India	6 months in any year or total 12 months in four years
Spain	6 months in any year or other qualitative factors (family, income source, home)
Peru	6 months in any 12 month period, you are tax resident from next 1st Jan.