Colombia Personal Tax Return

Do I need To Declare my Personal Taxes in Colombia?

Do I need To Declare my Personal Taxes in Colombia?
If you have exceeded 183 days in any 12 month period overlapping 2021 to 2022 or in 2021 then you will need to declare taxes in Colombia for 2020. The time period is not fixed between January 1 and December 31. Let us know if you need us to explain this. Here is your complete guide to Colombia personal tax declaration.

In August the first expiration on Colombian tax declarations will be occurring. Tax filing dates depends on your NIT tax id number. This number is located on the RUT document. If you don’t have one we can get you one in about 1-2 weeks even during quarantine, via email with the DIAN. The filing dates vary for everyone. Filing dates range from August to October.

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How long do I have to stay in the country to be a tax resident?

The time spent in the country is the most important requirement to be considered a tax resident.

The magic number is 183 days, or better, 184 days, since the norm speaks of more than 183 days, which means that with a minimum of 184 days of permanence in the country the person becomes a tax resident.

If a person stays in the country for more than 183 days in a 365-day period, he is considered a tax resident considering the following:

· The 183 days can be continuous or discontinuous, such as when the person is in the country for three months, leaves and returns two months later.

· Those 183 days are not considered within a calendar year (January – December), but within a period of 365 days, which can all be in the same year, a part in a year and another in another year. Example: from July 2017 to July 2018.

If the 184 days fall over two years, the tax residence begins in the second year, which according to the previous example would be from 2018.

In the following graph you can see in more detail the issue of residence time for Colombia personal tax declaration:

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James Lindzey founded the website ColombiaVisas.com, which is constantly updated with new information explaining visa resolutions, procedures, and laws in Colombia to expats. James has worked as a private investigator and paralegal in the United States through the 90s until he moved to Colombia in 2005. James arrived in Colombia in 2005 and started doing visas for expats, but currently works as Director of Legal Services for Visas by James, and Colombia Legal & Associates SAS since June of 2023.

Colombia Legal & Associates acquired the brand name Visas by James as it became a more familiar and easy way for foreigners to remember the business, than the previous Visas y Tramites Internacionales.

While MedellinLawyer.com focuses more on legal issues for expats, ColombiaVisas.com focuses more on visas, and holds the trademark Visas by James. ColombiaVisas.com is the oldest website and provider of visa information for expats in Colombia. We are proud to be the first and always on the cutting edge of providing interactive website content to our visitors.

In addition to our visa services our agency offers a full range of legal and accounting services to our clients. We are able to assist better in document collection services in the United States because of James previous legal experience in the United States.