UAE · 2 rules · 2 calculators
How many days can you spend in the UAE?
It depends on what you’re counting. For tax, 183 days or more in the UAE — Dubai or any other emirate — within 12 consecutive months make you resident, and with a residence permit and a home or job there, 90 are enough. A UAE residence visa is cancelled automatically after more than 180 days outside the country.
Tax residency
Tax residency in the UAE: 183 or 90 days
How many days can you spend in the UAE to become tax resident? 183 within 12 consecutive months — any part of a day counts, and the days don’t have to be in a row — or 90 with a residence permit and a home or job there.
Residence permits
Living in the UAE: 180 days away on a residence visa
Golden and Green residence holders are exempt. Others can ask ICP for a permit to come back, except residents of Dubai.
Day calculators for the UAE
UAE: questions and answers.
Does time in other emirates count for UAE tax residency?
Yes: what counts is physical presence in the UAE, Dubai or any other emirate — 183 days within 12 consecutive months, or 90 with a residence permit and a home or job there.
Can I keep a UAE residence visa while living abroad?
For up to 180 days in one absence. Past that, it’s cancelled automatically, unless you hold Golden or Green residence.
What counts as a day in the UAE for tax?
Any part of a day in the UAE counts, so the days you fly in and out both count, and the days don’t have to be in a row.
How many days can you spend in the UAE? FlySee counts them for you.
Track days in every country and know the date you can stay until.
- Counts your days in the UAE in any 12 months, any part of a day included
- Shows the day you’ll reach 183 days, or the last day to arrive and still reach it
- A tax tracker of your own counts the 90-day route: 90 days in any 12 months
- Logs every day you’re outside the UAE, automatically, and rebuilds past trips from your photos
- Exports your days by country as PDF, Excel or CSV
- Free to download
- free trial
- no account
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Sources
FlySee counts days; it doesn’t give tax advice. Whether you’re resident is for you and your adviser.
FlySee counts days; it doesn’t give immigration advice. Whether you qualify is for you and your adviser.