183 Days in Any Rolling Twelve Months, Backdated to the Whole Year - and a Territorial Exemption That Does Not Reach a Freelancer
Article 34(2) of the Tax Code counts 183 days in any continuous 12-calendar-month period ending in the tax year, not 183 days inside the calendar year, so a stay that straddles a new year can make you resident without 183 days falling in either one. What it then does is unusual: residence attaches to the entire current tax year, not from the 183rd day. Article 34(5) counts any part of a day as a day, and article 34(3) adds back time you spent outside Georgia specifically for treatment, leisure, a business trip or study - time abroad that still counts as presence. Article 34(8) resets the test every tax period and forbids reusing days already counted in the previous one. Then the part everyone repeats. Article 80(1) taxes a resident on income earned during the calendar year less deductions, which on its face is worldwide, and article 81(1) sets the rate at 20%. The territoriality is an exemption rather than a definition: article 82(1), subparagraph ფ in the Georgian and lettered u in matsne's English, exempts income received by a resident natural person which is not Georgian-source income. The question is therefore never whether income came from abroad but whether article 104 calls it Georgian-source - and article 104(1), subparagraph გ.ზ in the Georgian and c.g in the English, says a service is supplied in Georgia where the provider and the recipient are in different states and the provider is a Georgian resident. A resident freelancer invoicing a foreign client is therefore earning Georgian-source income, and the exemption everyone quotes does not reach them.
At a glance
- Day count
- 183 days or more
Article 34(2) of the Tax Code. Counted over any continuous 12-calendar-month period that ends in the tax year, not over the calendar year.
- What reaching it does
- Makes you a resident for the entire current tax year
Article 34(2). Residence is not dated from the 183rd day, so a year in which the count is met is a resident year throughout.
- How a day is counted
- A day on which you were in Georgia at all, however briefly
Article 34(5) of the Tax Code.
- Days abroad that still count as presence
- Time outside Georgia specifically for treatment, leisure, a business trip or study
Article 34(3). Article 34(4)(დ) excludes time in Georgia for treatment or leisure, so the same two purposes add days when spent abroad and subtract them when spent here.
- Rate on a natural person's taxable income
- 20%
Article 81(1) of the Tax Code, unless the Code provides otherwise. Residential rent taken without deductions is 5% under article 81(2).
- Foreign-source income of a resident individual
- Exempt from income tax
Article 82(1)(ფ) of the Tax Code - subparagraph u in matsne's English. It is an exemption inside the charging code, not a territorial definition of the charge.
- Services billed abroad by a Georgian resident
- Georgian-source income, and so taxable
Article 104(1)(გ.ზ) - c.g in the English. The exception is a provider who supplies through a permanent establishment in another country and can show it.
- High net worth individual residence
- No threshold appears in the Tax Code
Article 34(6) leaves the procedure and conditions to the Minister of Finance and defines the person by reference to the Law of Georgia on Securities Market. We have not read either instrument.
- How often status is decided
- Once per tax period, with no carry-over of days
Article 34(8) of the Tax Code: days that made you a resident in the previous tax period are not counted again in the next one.
Requirements
- 183 days or more of actual presence in any continuous 12-calendar-month period ending in the tax year
- Any part of a day in Georgia counts as a whole day
- Time spent outside Georgia for treatment, leisure, a business trip or study still counts as presence
- Nothing to apply for: residence follows from the days, and it attaches to the whole tax year
- Diplomats, international organisation staff, people in transit and people here for treatment or leisure have that time excluded
In detail
Why the 183 days are not the familiar 183 days
Two things make this test wider than its number suggests. The window is any continuous twelve calendar months ending in the tax year, so days are gathered across a year end rather than reset at it, and a person who arrives in September and leaves in May can meet it without reaching 183 days in either calendar year. And the consequence is backdated: article 34(2) makes you a resident for the entire current tax year, so income received in January is resident income even though the count was not met until July.
The sentence that decides whether a remote worker is taxed
The popular claim is that Georgia has a territorial system. What it has is a general charge on a resident's income with an exemption for what is not Georgian-source, and the definition of Georgian-source is article 104. For goods and for most services the test is where the thing happened. For a service supplied across a border it is not: subparagraph გ.ზ makes the service Georgian where the provider and recipient are in different states and the provider is a Georgian resident. The escape written into the same sentence is a permanent establishment abroad through which the service was actually supplied, and proof of it. Someone who moves to Tbilisi and keeps invoicing clients in other countries has neither, so their income is Georgian-source and the exemption does not apply to it. That is a different answer from the one that circulates, and it is the reason the Small Business Status at 1% is the regime such people are actually sent to.
The two routes that do not count days at all
Article 34(6) lets the Minister of Finance grant residence to a person provided with significant property, and article 34(6²) lets the Minister grant it to a foreign national in cases the Minister defines. Neither paragraph states a threshold, a fee or a procedure; both delegate. Article 34(6¹) adds a third: a Georgian citizen whose residence cannot be established anywhere is treated as a Georgian resident on applying to the tax authority. The amounts attached to the first of these in advisers' material come from a Minister of Finance order we have not read, so we do not publish them.
Country-level policy
The regime people are sent to is three articles of the Tax Code and they do not say what the advertisements say. Article 88(1) makes it available to an entrepreneur natural person and to nobody else, so it is a status attached to a sole trader registration rather than to a residence permit or a nationality. Article 90(1) taxes taxable income at 1%. Article 90(2) does not withdraw the status at GEL 500 000: it raises the rate to 3% from the beginning of the month in which the limit is passed until the end of that calendar year, with GEL 700 000 for wine tourism and agro tourism operators. Losing the status needs two years, not one - article 89(2)(a) revokes it where gross income exceeded the limit in each of two calendar years, and article 89(3) then dates the revocation from the start of the following year. Article 90(3) is the limb nobody quotes: the taxable income of a small business consists of income from a Georgian source, excluding salary income. Read with article 104(1)(გ.ზ), which makes a cross-border service Georgian-source when the provider is a Georgian resident, that is what puts a resident freelancer's foreign invoices inside the 1% rather than outside the tax.
Article 23 of the Tax Code creates a status for a Georgian enterprise that carries on activities defined by an ordinance of the Government and earns income solely from them. The Government grants the status and the Government writes the list; the Code supplies only the consequences. Profit tax is 5% rather than the ordinary rate, income earned from working for hire at an international company is taxed at 5%, and a dividend it pays is not taxed at source and is not included in the recipient's gross income. The status cannot be held inside a Free Industrial Zone, and carrying on an activity outside the Government's list cancels it retroactively to 1 January of the year that activity began. The 5% on employment income is the part that matters to a person rather than a company, and it is the reason the residence permit for people employed in information technologies, in article 15 of the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons, names international companies by reference.
The IT status that circulates as a personal tax route is neither personal nor an income tax provision. Article 8(35) of the Tax Code defines a virtual zone person as a legal person which carries out information technology activity and has been granted the corresponding status, and article 8(36) defines that activity as studying, supporting, developing, designing, producing and introducing computer information systems that result in software products. The benefit is in article 99(1), the list of profit tax exemptions: profit, and the distribution of profit, from the supply outside Georgia of information technologies created by a virtual zone legal person. So it exempts a company's profit distribution, it only reaches supplies made outside Georgia, and it does nothing at all for an individual's income tax. A natural person who holds the status is holding it through a company.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«2\. საქართველოს რეზიდენტად, მთელი მიმდინარე საგადასახადო წლის განმავლობაში, ითვლება ფიზიკური პირი, რომელიც ფაქტობრივად იმყოფება საქართველოს ტერიტორიაზე 183 დღე ან მეტ ხანს ნებისმიერი უწყვეტი 12 კალენდარული თვის პერიოდში, რომელიც მთავრდება ამ საგადასახადო წელს, ან ფიზიკური პირი, რომელიც ამ საგადასახადო წლის განმავლობაში იმყოფებოდა უცხო ქვეყანაში საქართველოს სახელმწიფო სამსახურში.»Our translation - not official
A natural person is deemed a resident of Georgia, for the whole of the current tax year, if they are actually present in the territory of Georgia for 183 days or more in any continuous 12-calendar-month period ending in that tax year, or if during that tax year they were in a foreign country in the public service of Georgia.
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The official gazette and consolidated statute book of Georgia, a legal entity under public law under the Ministry of Justice. Every instrument lives at matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/<id>: laws, organic laws, Government resolutions, presidential decrees and ministerial orders, each page opening with a metadata block that gives the document number, the issuing body, the date of issue, the source and date of publication, the date of entry into force and the registration code, then listing every consolidated publication by date with its own publication index. Above the body of each page the site states which edition is being shown: კონსოლიდირებული ვერსია (საბოლოო) means the final consolidation, and a different line means it is not. Amending instruments are published separately and in full, each citing the registration code of the act it amends, so a schedule whose consolidation is paywalled can still be reconstructed from the original plus the amendments. Renders through Firecrawl without difficulty, including million-character statutes: the Georgian Tax Code comes back at 1,190,393 characters.
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Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«2\. A Georgian resident for the entire current tax year shall be a natural person who has actually stayed in the territory of Georgia for 183 or more days in any continuous 12-calendar-month period ending in that tax year, or a natural person who was in a foreign country in the public service of Georgia during that tax year.»Known to be out of date. The English text matsne serves at this address is the consolidation in force from 25 June 2026 to 30 September 2026. The Georgian at the matching address is the consolidation of 30 September 2026, and the English of that consolidation does not exist: the page for it carries no law, only the notice that the consolidation is underway. Law of Georgia No 1874 of 30 September 2026 is therefore not in this text.
matsne's English of article 34 is faithful: the 183 days attach to the presence limb and to nothing else, exactly as in the Georgian. It is quoted here so a reader can check the Georgian against it.
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The same publisher's English rendering of Georgian instruments, served at matsne.gov.ge/en/document/view/<id> - the same document id as the Georgian, so the two texts are one address apart. Where an English consolidation exists it is a full translation of that consolidation, with the same article numbering, the same amending-law footers and the same metadata block. For the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons the English kept pace with the Georgian through the amendments of 15 April and 25 June 2026, so the 2026 spouse permit and the interagency marriage commission can be read in both languages.
Standing:
Cannot be cited for: It may never be cited as the law, for four reasons found in the text itself. (1) It lags, silently to a reader who does not look up: on 11 October 2026 the Tax Code in English was the consolidation of 25 June 2026 while the Georgian was that of 30 September 2026, and the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship in English was the edition of 7 March to 26 June 2025 while the Georgian was 25 June 2026. (2) The newest consolidation of a lagging instrument does not exist in English at all: the English page for Tax Code publication 246 and citizenship publication 12 carries no law, only 'Attention! The consolidation of the document is underway. You are not reading the latest version of the document.' (3) The default English address serves the last complete English edition under the line 'Attention! You are not reading the final edition', which is one line of body text above a million characters of statute. (4) Subparagraph letters are relabelled by alphabetical position rather than transliterated, so Georgian ფ becomes u, ჟ becomes p and თ becomes h - and the trap is live, because the Latin letter that a reader would reach for by sound lands on a different and sometimes repealed subparagraph: English article 99(1)(p) is Georgian 99(1)(ჟ), while Georgian 99(1)(პ) was deleted on 30 May 2018. It also mis-states one amending law's number, printing the law of 30 May 2018 as No 3591 in twelve places and as No 2391 in twelve others where the Georgian prints №2391 throughout, and it loses superscripts: article 21¹ appears as '211' and paragraph 6¹ as '61'. Cite it beside the Georgian, as a translation, never instead of it.
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«3\. საქართველოს ტერიტორიაზე ფაქტობრივად ყოფნის დროდ ითვლება დრო, რომლის განმავლობაშიც ფიზიკური პირი იმყოფებოდა საქართველოში, აგრეთვე დრო, რომლითაც იგი გავიდა საქართველოს ფარგლების გარეთ სპეციალურად სამკურნალოდ, დასასვენებლად, მივლინებით ან სასწავლებლად.»Our translation - not official
The time of actual presence in the territory of Georgia includes the time during which the natural person was in Georgia, and also the time for which they left Georgia specifically for treatment, for rest, on a business trip or to study.
Read beside article 34(4)(დ), which excludes time spent in Georgia for treatment or rest. The same two purposes add days when they are pursued abroad and remove them when they are pursued here.
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Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«5\. საქართველოს ტერიტორიაზე ფაქტობრივად ყოფნის დღედ ითვლება დღე, რომლის განმავლობაშიც ფიზიკური პირი იმყოფებოდა საქართველოში, მიუხედავად ამ ყოფნის ხანგრძლივობისა.»Our translation - not official
A day of actual presence in the territory of Georgia is a day during which the natural person was in Georgia, irrespective of how long that presence lasted.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«8\. რეზიდენტის ან არარეზიდენტის სტატუსი დგინდება ყოველი საგადასახადო პერიოდისათვის. ამასთანავე, ის დღეები, რომელთა მიხედვითაც ფიზიკური პირი წინა საგადასახადო პერიოდში ჩაითვალა რეზიდენტად, არ გაითვალისწინება მომდევნო საგადასახადო პერიოდში რეზიდენტობის დადგენისას.»Our translation - not official
The status of resident or non-resident is established for each tax period. At the same time, the days on which the natural person was treated as a resident in the previous tax period are not taken into account when establishing residence in the following tax period.
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The official gazette and consolidated statute book of Georgia, a legal entity under public law under the Ministry of Justice. Every instrument lives at matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/<id>: laws, organic laws, Government resolutions, presidential decrees and ministerial orders, each page opening with a metadata block that gives the document number, the issuing body, the date of issue, the source and date of publication, the date of entry into force and the registration code, then listing every consolidated publication by date with its own publication index. Above the body of each page the site states which edition is being shown: კონსოლიდირებული ვერსია (საბოლოო) means the final consolidation, and a different line means it is not. Amending instruments are published separately and in full, each citing the registration code of the act it amends, so a schedule whose consolidation is paywalled can still be reconstructed from the original plus the amendments. Renders through Firecrawl without difficulty, including million-character statutes: the Georgian Tax Code comes back at 1,190,393 characters.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«1\. რეზიდენტი ფიზიკური პირის საშემოსავლო გადასახადით დაბეგვრის ობიექტია დასაბეგრი შემოსავალი, რომელიც განისაზღვრება, როგორც სხვაობა კალენდარული წლის განმავლობაში მიღებულ ერთობლივ შემოსავალსა და ამ პერიოდისათვის ამ კოდექსით გათვალისწინებული გამოქვითვების თანხებს შორის.»Our translation - not official
The object of income taxation of a resident natural person is taxable income, defined as the difference between the gross income received during the calendar year and the deductions allowed by this Code for that period.
On its face this charges a resident on everything. The territoriality comes later, as an exemption in article 82(1).
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Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«ფ) რეზიდენტი ფიზიკური პირის მიერ მიღებული შემოსავალი (მათ შორის, სარგებელი), რომელიც არ განეკუთვნება საქართველოში არსებული წყაროდან მიღებულ შემოსავალს;»Our translation - not official
(ფ) income (including benefit) received by a resident natural person which does not belong to income received from a source existing in Georgia;
This is the whole of the proposition that Georgia does not tax foreign income. It is a subparagraph of an exemption list, and it is defined by what article 104 does not catch.
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The official gazette and consolidated statute book of Georgia, a legal entity under public law under the Ministry of Justice. Every instrument lives at matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/<id>: laws, organic laws, Government resolutions, presidential decrees and ministerial orders, each page opening with a metadata block that gives the document number, the issuing body, the date of issue, the source and date of publication, the date of entry into force and the registration code, then listing every consolidated publication by date with its own publication index. Above the body of each page the site states which edition is being shown: კონსოლიდირებული ვერსია (საბოლოო) means the final consolidation, and a different line means it is not. Amending instruments are published separately and in full, each citing the registration code of the act it amends, so a schedule whose consolidation is paywalled can still be reconstructed from the original plus the amendments. Renders through Firecrawl without difficulty, including million-character statutes: the Georgian Tax Code comes back at 1,190,393 characters.
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Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«u) income (including gain) received by a resident natural person, which does not belong to Georgian source income;»Known to be out of date. The English text matsne serves at this address is the consolidation in force from 25 June 2026 to 30 September 2026. The Georgian at the matching address is the consolidation of 30 September 2026, and the English of that consolidation does not exist: the page for it carries no law, only the notice that the consolidation is underway. Law of Georgia No 1874 of 30 September 2026 is therefore not in this text.
The same provision in matsne's English. Note the letter: the Georgian subparagraph is ფ, the twenty-first letter of the Georgian alphabet, and the English prints the twenty-first letter of the Latin one. The English letters are positional, not phonetic.
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Standing:
Cannot be cited for: It may never be cited as the law, for four reasons found in the text itself. (1) It lags, silently to a reader who does not look up: on 11 October 2026 the Tax Code in English was the consolidation of 25 June 2026 while the Georgian was that of 30 September 2026, and the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship in English was the edition of 7 March to 26 June 2025 while the Georgian was 25 June 2026. (2) The newest consolidation of a lagging instrument does not exist in English at all: the English page for Tax Code publication 246 and citizenship publication 12 carries no law, only 'Attention! The consolidation of the document is underway. You are not reading the latest version of the document.' (3) The default English address serves the last complete English edition under the line 'Attention! You are not reading the final edition', which is one line of body text above a million characters of statute. (4) Subparagraph letters are relabelled by alphabetical position rather than transliterated, so Georgian ფ becomes u, ჟ becomes p and თ becomes h - and the trap is live, because the Latin letter that a reader would reach for by sound lands on a different and sometimes repealed subparagraph: English article 99(1)(p) is Georgian 99(1)(ჟ), while Georgian 99(1)(პ) was deleted on 30 May 2018. It also mis-states one amending law's number, printing the law of 30 May 2018 as No 3591 in twelve places and as No 2391 in twelve others where the Georgian prints №2391 throughout, and it loses superscripts: article 21¹ appears as '211' and paragraph 6¹ as '61'. Cite it beside the Georgian, as a translation, never instead of it.
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«გ.ზ) მომსახურების გამწევი და მომსახურების მიმღები სხვადასხვა სახელმწიფოში არიან და მომსახურების გამწევი საქართველოს რეზიდენტია, გარდა იმ შემთხვევისა, როდესაც მომსახურების გამწევის მიერ მომსახურების გაწევა ხორციელდება სხვა ქვეყანაში მისი მუდმივი დაწესებულების მეშვეობით, რომელიც ადასტურებს, რომ მომსახურების გამწევმა სხვა ქვეყანაში (გარდა საქართველოსი) გასწია მომსახურება;»Our translation - not official
(გ.ზ) the service provider and the service recipient are in different states and the service provider is a resident of Georgia, except where the service provider supplies the service through its permanent establishment in another country, which confirms that the provider supplied the service in that other country (other than Georgia);
This is the limb that decides the tax position of a resident freelancer with foreign clients. The service is supplied in Georgia because the provider lives here, so the income is Georgian-source and the article 82(1)(ფ) exemption never reaches it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«c.g) a service provider and a service recipient are in different states and the service provider is a Georgian resident, except where the service provider delivers services through its permanent establishment in another country that confirms the fact that the service provider has delivered services in another country (other than in Georgia).»Known to be out of date. The English text matsne serves at this address is the consolidation in force from 25 June 2026 to 30 September 2026. The Georgian at the matching address is the consolidation of 30 September 2026, and the English of that consolidation does not exist: the page for it carries no law, only the notice that the consolidation is underway. Law of Georgia No 1874 of 30 September 2026 is therefore not in this text.
matsne's English of this limb matches the Georgian.
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Standing:
Cannot be cited for: It may never be cited as the law, for four reasons found in the text itself. (1) It lags, silently to a reader who does not look up: on 11 October 2026 the Tax Code in English was the consolidation of 25 June 2026 while the Georgian was that of 30 September 2026, and the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship in English was the edition of 7 March to 26 June 2025 while the Georgian was 25 June 2026. (2) The newest consolidation of a lagging instrument does not exist in English at all: the English page for Tax Code publication 246 and citizenship publication 12 carries no law, only 'Attention! The consolidation of the document is underway. You are not reading the latest version of the document.' (3) The default English address serves the last complete English edition under the line 'Attention! You are not reading the final edition', which is one line of body text above a million characters of statute. (4) Subparagraph letters are relabelled by alphabetical position rather than transliterated, so Georgian ფ becomes u, ჟ becomes p and თ becomes h - and the trap is live, because the Latin letter that a reader would reach for by sound lands on a different and sometimes repealed subparagraph: English article 99(1)(p) is Georgian 99(1)(ჟ), while Georgian 99(1)(პ) was deleted on 30 May 2018. It also mis-states one amending law's number, printing the law of 30 May 2018 as No 3591 in twelve places and as No 2391 in twelve others where the Georgian prints №2391 throughout, and it loses superscripts: article 21¹ appears as '211' and paragraph 6¹ as '61'. Cite it beside the Georgian, as a translation, never instead of it.
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«1\. ფიზიკური პირის დასაბეგრი შემოსავალი იბეგრება 20 პროცენტით, თუ ამ კოდექსით სხვა რამ არ არის გათვალისწინებული. 2\. საცხოვრებელი ფართობის ორგანიზაციაზე, იურიდიულ პირზე ან ფიზიკურ პირზე საცხოვრებელი მიზნით გაქირავების შედეგად იმ ფიზიკური პირის მიერ მიღებული შემოსავალი, რომელიც ამ შემოსავლიდან გამოქვითვებს არ ახორციელებს, 5 პროცენტით იბეგრება.»Our translation - not official
1. A natural person's taxable income is taxed at 20 per cent, unless this Code provides otherwise. 2. Income received by a natural person from letting residential space to an organisation, a legal person or a natural person for residential purposes, where that person makes no deductions from this income, is taxed at 5 per cent.
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The official gazette and consolidated statute book of Georgia, a legal entity under public law under the Ministry of Justice. Every instrument lives at matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/<id>: laws, organic laws, Government resolutions, presidential decrees and ministerial orders, each page opening with a metadata block that gives the document number, the issuing body, the date of issue, the source and date of publication, the date of entry into force and the registration code, then listing every consolidated publication by date with its own publication index. Above the body of each page the site states which edition is being shown: კონსოლიდირებული ვერსია (საბოლოო) means the final consolidation, and a different line means it is not. Amending instruments are published separately and in full, each citing the registration code of the act it amends, so a schedule whose consolidation is paywalled can still be reconstructed from the original plus the amendments. Renders through Firecrawl without difficulty, including million-character statutes: the Georgian Tax Code comes back at 1,190,393 characters.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«6\. საქართველოს რეზიდენტობა, გარდა ამ მუხლის მე-2 ნაწილით გათვალისწინებული შემთხვევისა, შეიძლება მიენიჭოს მნიშვნელოვანი ქონებით უზრუნველყოფილ პირს საქართველოს ფინანსთა მინისტრის მიერ განსაზღვრული წესითა და პირობებით. მნიშვნელოვანი ქონებით უზრუნველყოფილი პირი არის „ფასიანი ქაღალდების ბაზრის შესახებ“ საქართველოს კანონით განსაზღვრული პირი.»Our translation - not official
Residence of Georgia, apart from the case provided for in paragraph 2 of this article, may be granted to a person provided with significant property, under the procedure and conditions determined by the Minister of Finance of Georgia. A person provided with significant property is a person as defined by the Law of Georgia on the Securities Market.
The Code states no amount. Both the test and the procedure are delegated, and the definition is borrowed from securities law.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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«6\. Georgian residency, except as provided for in paragraph 2 of this article, may be accorded to a high net worth individual under the procedure and conditions determined by the Minister of Finance of Georgia. A high net worth individual shall be a person as defined by the Law of Georgia on Securities Market.»Known to be out of date. The English text matsne serves at this address is the consolidation in force from 25 June 2026 to 30 September 2026. The Georgian at the matching address is the consolidation of 30 September 2026, and the English of that consolidation does not exist: the page for it carries no law, only the notice that the consolidation is underway. Law of Georgia No 1874 of 30 September 2026 is therefore not in this text.
The English renders მნიშვნელოვანი ქონებით უზრუნველყოფილი პირი - literally a person provided with significant property - as 'high net worth individual'. The phrase the regime is sold under is the translator's, not the statute's, and it carries a figure in English-language marketing that the Georgian provision does not state.
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Standing:
Cannot be cited for: It may never be cited as the law, for four reasons found in the text itself. (1) It lags, silently to a reader who does not look up: on 11 October 2026 the Tax Code in English was the consolidation of 25 June 2026 while the Georgian was that of 30 September 2026, and the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship in English was the edition of 7 March to 26 June 2025 while the Georgian was 25 June 2026. (2) The newest consolidation of a lagging instrument does not exist in English at all: the English page for Tax Code publication 246 and citizenship publication 12 carries no law, only 'Attention! The consolidation of the document is underway. You are not reading the latest version of the document.' (3) The default English address serves the last complete English edition under the line 'Attention! You are not reading the final edition', which is one line of body text above a million characters of statute. (4) Subparagraph letters are relabelled by alphabetical position rather than transliterated, so Georgian ფ becomes u, ჟ becomes p and თ becomes h - and the trap is live, because the Latin letter that a reader would reach for by sound lands on a different and sometimes repealed subparagraph: English article 99(1)(p) is Georgian 99(1)(ჟ), while Georgian 99(1)(პ) was deleted on 30 May 2018. It also mis-states one amending law's number, printing the law of 30 May 2018 as No 3591 in twelve places and as No 2391 in twelve others where the Georgian prints №2391 throughout, and it loses superscripts: article 21¹ appears as '211' and paragraph 6¹ as '61'. Cite it beside the Georgian, as a translation, never instead of it.
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Practical notes
Every figure here is read from the Georgian text of the Tax Code at matsne, the consolidation of 30 September 2026. The English translation at the matching address is a consolidation older by one amendment, and matsne says so on the page.
We did not read the Minister of Finance order made under article 34(6), nor the Law of Georgia on the Securities Market it points to, so no amount is published for the high net worth individual route.
Whether a particular stream of foreign income is caught turns on article 104, which runs to twenty subparagraphs. We have read and quoted the limb that matters for cross-border services; we do not claim to have surveyed the rest.
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საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე (Legislative Herald of Georgia) · consolidated to 2026-09-30
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Three things it must not be cited for. First, it is not free for everything: for some Government resolutions - resolution No 255 of 5 June 2015 on visa-free entry, and resolution No 36 of 21 February 2013 on universal health care - the site serves only the text as originally published and prints დოკუმენტის კონსოლიდირებული ვარიანტის ნახვა ფასიანია, that viewing the consolidated version is a paid service requiring registration and the purchase of a viewing right. A reading of such a page is a reading of the original, however many consolidations have followed, and must be labelled as one. Second, it publishes the consolidated law and not the reasoning: no explanatory memorandum, no case law, no ministerial guidance, and a great deal of Georgian immigration and tax practice sits in orders of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Affairs which it holds but which are not linked from the parent act. Third, the Georgian pages are the law and the English pages at the matching address are not the same document - see ge-matsne-en. Pages render statutes inside HTML tables, so stored text carries table pipes and <br> markers around the publisher's own words.
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- publishesTax Code of Georgia (matsne English translation)
Legislative Herald of Georgia, English translation service · consolidated to 2026-06-25
Known to be out of date. The English text matsne serves at this address is the consolidation in force from 25 June 2026 to 30 September 2026. The Georgian at the matching address is the consolidation of 30 September 2026, and the English of that consolidation does not exist: the page for it carries no law, only the notice that the consolidation is underway. Law of Georgia No 1874 of 30 September 2026 is therefore not in this text.
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The same publisher's English rendering of Georgian instruments, served at matsne.gov.ge/en/document/view/<id> - the same document id as the Georgian, so the two texts are one address apart. Where an English consolidation exists it is a full translation of that consolidation, with the same article numbering, the same amending-law footers and the same metadata block. For the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons the English kept pace with the Georgian through the amendments of 15 April and 25 June 2026, so the 2026 spouse permit and the interagency marriage commission can be read in both languages.
Standing:
Cannot be cited for: It may never be cited as the law, for four reasons found in the text itself. (1) It lags, silently to a reader who does not look up: on 11 October 2026 the Tax Code in English was the consolidation of 25 June 2026 while the Georgian was that of 30 September 2026, and the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship in English was the edition of 7 March to 26 June 2025 while the Georgian was 25 June 2026. (2) The newest consolidation of a lagging instrument does not exist in English at all: the English page for Tax Code publication 246 and citizenship publication 12 carries no law, only 'Attention! The consolidation of the document is underway. You are not reading the latest version of the document.' (3) The default English address serves the last complete English edition under the line 'Attention! You are not reading the final edition', which is one line of body text above a million characters of statute. (4) Subparagraph letters are relabelled by alphabetical position rather than transliterated, so Georgian ფ becomes u, ჟ becomes p and თ becomes h - and the trap is live, because the Latin letter that a reader would reach for by sound lands on a different and sometimes repealed subparagraph: English article 99(1)(p) is Georgian 99(1)(ჟ), while Georgian 99(1)(პ) was deleted on 30 May 2018. It also mis-states one amending law's number, printing the law of 30 May 2018 as No 3591 in twelve places and as No 2391 in twelve others where the Georgian prints №2391 throughout, and it loses superscripts: article 21¹ appears as '211' and paragraph 6¹ as '61'. Cite it beside the Georgian, as a translation, never instead of it.
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