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Tax residency in Georgia

How to become a tax resident — and how hard it is to leave.

How to become a tax resident

Typically after 183+ days of presence in a year — or any of:

• 183+ days in any continuous 12-month period
• High Net Worth Individual (HNWI) tax-residency route

A self-funded remote or high‑net‑worth individual typically either uses Georgia’s one‑year visa‑free stay or applies for an income‑based digital‑nomad visa and can later obtain temporary residence via relatively low real‑estate or business investment.

Georgia’s official guidance ties individual tax residency to actual presence or the separate HNWI route, not citizenship or domicile. It is generally easy to stop being resident by no longer meeting the 183-day test in the relevant 12-month period, though the HNWI route requires annual renewal.

“Full-year residents are taxed on all income, except tax exempt income, regardless of the source or where derived.” — Georgia Department of Revenue

Estimate — confirm against the linked sources. See methodology.