residex.ioEvery trip accounted forIndia’s 182-Day Rule
The threshold is 182, the year starts in April, and the count can drop to 60
A financial year that starts in April
India counts presence over its financial year, 1 April to 31 March. A stay from January to June is not six months in one year; it is three in one and three in the next. residex.io counts Indian days on the April year so that the figure it shows is the one the rule asks for.
The threshold is 182 days, not 183 — a difference of one that matters only at the margin, which is exactly where people find themselves.
The second test: 60 days plus a look-back
You are also resident if you spent 60 days or more in India this year and 365 days or more across the four preceding years. That second test is the one that catches people who visit often: six years of two-and-a-half-month visits meets it comfortably while never approaching 182.
For an Indian citizen leaving for employment abroad, or a citizen or person of Indian origin visiting from abroad, the 60 days is generally replaced by 182 — or by 120 where Indian-source income exceeds ₹15 lakh. And a citizen with Indian income over that figure who is not liable to tax anywhere else can be deemed resident with no day count at all.
Resident is not the whole answer
India then asks whether a resident is “ordinarily resident”. Someone who was non-resident in nine of the ten preceding years, or spent 729 days or fewer in India over the seven preceding years, is resident but not ordinarily resident — and taxed only on Indian-source income and income from a business controlled from India. Returning emigrants often hold that status for a year or two, and it is worth knowing about before the move rather than after.
What residex.io does about it
Residex counts your days in India over the April financial year, warns as you approach 182, and can notify you on the date a planned trip would take you past it. It does not run the 60-day look-back or the deemed-residence rule, and it does not know your income — those are for an adviser, and for Amanda.
Who needs to watch this
- Non-resident Indians visiting family for long stretches
- Returning emigrants planning the move back
- Consultants with recurring Indian engagements
- Anyone whose visits are short but frequent, year after year
Counting days is where this stops
Residex tells you exactly where you stand against this threshold and warns you before you cross it. Crossing it is not a conclusion, though: it does not tell you what you owe, whether a treaty offers relief, which forms to file, or how this interacts with residency you already hold elsewhere.
That is where Amanda picks up — turning a day count into a read on your real cross-border obligations.
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How residex.io works
residex.io tracks where you have physically been, and tells you where that puts you against each country's own residency threshold.
What it does: • Counts your days per country, and per area for the Schengen 90/180 rule • Applies each country's actual rule — 183 days for most, 180 for Thailand, the UK's 6 April tax year, Portugal's rolling twelve months, and the US weighted three-year test • Counts days the way each rule counts them, including the arrival and departure days that most tests count and a nights-based tally misses • Warns as you approach a threshold, and can notify you on the date a trip you have already planned would take you across it • Exports to CSV, or hands off to Amanda for the compliance picture
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On your device, and nowhere else. There is no account, no login, and no copy of your travel history on our servers — residex works offline because the data never needed to be anywhere else.
It leaves your device only when you decide to send it: • A backup file you save yourself • A transfer to another device, encrypted with a code only you hold — the server relaying it cannot read what it is carrying • A hand-off to Amanda, which you start
We do receive a small amount of anonymous usage information — how many trips are in a log, how old an install is, the language the app is used in, and a random identifier that is not linked to you. Never a trip, a date, a destination, or your name. It is listed in full in our Privacy Policy.
The trade-off worth knowing: because your device holds the only copy, clearing your browser data or deleting the app erases it, and we cannot restore it. Save a backup before you switch devices.
No — residex is a day counter, not a compliance engine. It flags when you cross a threshold like the 183-day rule, but turning that into specific filings, tax exposure, or reporting obligations depends on your jurisdictions and personal ties.
For that, our partner Amanda maps your full cross-border legal exposure across countries, surfaces the filings and deadlines you trigger, and turns the data residex collects into a concrete compliance picture you can hand to your accountant.
You can export your residex trips and import them straight into Amanda — the CSV formats are aligned.