No Day Count at All: Where You Live Is Judged by the Circumstances
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Brazil on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
116 exceptions recorded across 45 countries · none match Brazil to Netherlands · When you become a tax resident
Most countries in this corpus answer the tax residence question with a number. The Netherlands answers it with a sentence that has no number in it. Article 4 of the General State Taxes Act says that where someone lives is assessed according to the circumstances, and stops. There is no 183-day rule, no threshold to stay under and none to cross: a person who keeps a home, a family and a life here can be resident from the first day, and a person who spends most of the year here without them may not be.
At a glance
- Day count
- None in article 4 of the Algemene wet inzake rijksbelastingen, which is the provision that decides residence
- The test
- Where someone lives, judged according to the circumstances
- Who judges them
- Not stated in the article - it sets a standard and names no decider
- One thing the Act does fix
- Ships and aircraft with a home port in the Netherlands count as part of it, for their crew
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Brazil
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«1 Waar iemand woont en waar een lichaam gevestigd is, wordt naar de omstandigheden beoordeeld.»Our translation - not official
Where a person lives and where a body is established is assessed according to the circumstances.
The whole of it. Everything a reader wants - what circumstances, weighed how - is case law, and no instrument we read supplies it.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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«2 Voor de toepassing van het eerste lid worden schepen en luchtvaartuigen welke in Nederland hun thuishaven hebben, ten opzichte van de bemanning als deel van Nederland beschouwd.»The single concrete rule in the article, and it is about crews rather than about migrants.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
Practical notes
An open standard is not a lenient one. Having nothing to count means there is nothing to arrange, and the answer is reached by someone weighing a life rather than by arithmetic anyone can do in advance.
A tax treaty with the country you came from can displace the result, as it can everywhere. No treaty was read for this record.
- consolidatesAlgemene wet inzake rijksbelastingen
Overheid.nl, Wettenbank
About this source
The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source