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Tax residency in Cabo Verde

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:

• physical presence in Cabo Verde for more than 183 days in a calendar year (consecutive or not)
• owning a house in Cabo Verde on 31 December that is suitable to be used as a permanent residence, creating a presumption of permanent residence

Cabo Verde offers an easy online Remote Working / digital nomad visa that acts as a temporary residence permit for six months, renewable once, but there is no formal residence‑by‑investment or direct citizenship‑by‑investment route.

Tax residency is based only on current-year days of presence or maintaining a permanent home, so ceasing to be resident is generally achieved by leaving Cabo Verde and not meeting the 183‑day or permanent-home conditions in a later year.

“Residence – An individual is resident for tax purposes if he/she was present in the country for more than 183 days, consecutive or alternate; or if he/she was established in the country for less than the latter period, but owns a house, on 31st of December of that year, in conditions which are able to establish the assumption that the person occupies it as a permanent residence.” — Cabo Verde tax legislation as summarised in RFF Lawyers – Guia Fiscal Cabo Verde (English)

Estimate — confirm against the linked sources. See methodology.