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    "name": "Provedays",
    "url": "https://provedays.com"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Provedays — provedays.com",
  "notice": "Rule data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Golden test fixtures, guide prose and the rule schema are not covered by this licence and remain all rights reserved. See https://provedays.com/terms/.",
  "documentation": "https://provedays.com/methodology/",
  "rule_id": "de.tax.habitual_abode",
  "versions": [
    {
      "rule_id": "de.tax.habitual_abode",
      "version": "2026.1",
      "jurisdiction": "DE",
      "title": "Germany habitual abode (6-month stay) — ADVISORY",
      "summary": "Germany treats an unbroken stay of more than six months as a habitual abode (gewöhnlicher Aufenthalt), making you tax resident — retroactively from day one of the stay. Short interruptions do not break the stay. Germany also taxes anyone with a domestic dwelling at their disposal (Wohnsitz) regardless of days. Day counts are NOT determinative here — professional advice is required.",
      "evaluator": "contiguous_stay",
      "determinative": false,
      "official_source_url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ao_1977/__9.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
      "effective_from": "2000-01-01",
      "effective_to": null,
      "disclaimer_level": "advisory",
      "convention": {
        "part_day_counts": true
      },
      "params": {
        "reference_period": {
          "type": "calendar_year"
        },
        "contiguous": {
          "length_days": 183,
          "max_interruption_days": 21,
          "retroactive_from_day_one": true
        }
      },
      "notifications": [
        {
          "at_count": 150,
          "at_fraction_of_limit": null,
          "message_key": "de.contiguous.approaching"
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        "AO §9: 'more than six months' modelled as 183 contiguous days; brief interruptions (holidays, short trips) are disregarded — 21 days is this app's tracking heuristic, not a statutory number.",
        "ADVISORY: the Wohnsitz (dwelling) test can make you resident with zero counted days."
      ]
    }
  ]
}