Is Armenian tax residency measured over 183 days in a calendar year or a rolling 12 months?

Domestic law measures it within the tax year, which Tax Code Art. 13(4) defines as the calendar year. Art. 25(1) says 183 or more days in the tax year. The rolling twelve-month rule belongs to the double-tax treaties and governs employment-income relief, not domestic residency.

Do arrival and departure days count as full days in Armenia?

Yes. Tax Code Art. 25(2) counts each of them as a whole day, whatever the hour of the crossing.

Must a foreign national file an annual income declaration in Armenia?

The universal declaration under Art. 156(4.1) applies to people who are both Armenian tax residents and Armenian citizens as at 31 December. A foreign national files under Art. 156(4)(2) only where they had income not taxed at source in Armenia, and is outside the pre-filled deemed-submission regime of Art. 156.1.

When is Armenian personal income tax for 2025 due?

For reporting year 2025 the transitional provision in Art. 5(2) of Law HO-76-N of 22 April 2025 sets both the declaration and the budget payment at 1 November 2026 inclusive. The standing date of 1 July in Tax Code Art. 158(2)(2) governs reporting year 2026 onward.

What happens if an Armenian tax deadline falls on a weekend or holiday?

It moves to the next working day under Art. 32(4) of the Law on Normative Legal Acts. A holiday falling on a weekend is not compensated, and a Saturday can be declared a working day by government decision.

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Tax residency and deadlines in Armenia, with the articles they come from

This page exists because the widely-repeated version of these rules is wrong, and the reason it is wrong is traceable to one defective translation. Everything below cites primary law so you can check it.

Not advice, and not professionally verified. No licensed Armenian lawyer or certified accountant has signed this off. It is research against the official Armenian consolidations on arlis.am, published so that you can take the right question to a professional. Rules change; some of what follows is expressly unresolved.

The residency test

183 days, counted within the tax year: Tax Code Art. 25(1): «որոնք հարկային տարում Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում փաստացի գտնվել են 183 և ավելի օր». Art. 13(4) defines the tax year as 1 January to 31 December. Not a rolling twelve months.
Arrival and departure days each count as a whole day: Art. 25(2). Two same-day border crossings therefore cost you a day each.
Days are not the only test: Art. 25(3)(1): your centre of vital interests — home, family, or main place of work — being in Armenia can make you resident on far fewer than 183 days.
Resident on one day means resident for the year: Art. 25(5). Armenia has no split-year treatment.
The rolling twelve-month rule is real, but it is not this: It belongs to the double-tax treaties and governs employment-income relief, not domestic residency. Conflating the two is the single most common error in English-language summaries.

Why the confusion exists: the official English translation of the Tax Code on arlis renders Art. 25(1) without the words «in the tax year», leaving the English text with no measurement period, and its header shows it has not been updated since December 2024. Only the Armenian text is authoritative.

The annual income declaration

The universal declaration is not universal: Art. 156(4.1) applies it to people who are both Armenian tax residents and Armenian citizens as at 31 December. A foreign national files under the general rule of Art. 156(4)(2) only where they had income not taxed at source in Armenia.
Foreign nationals are outside the pre-filled safety net: The pre-fill and deemed-submission regime of Art. 156.1 is keyed to Art. 156(4.1). For an Armenian citizen a declaration never submitted is treated as submitted; for a foreign national there is no such net, and not filing is a real default. If you take one thing from this page, take this one.
Reporting year 2025: file and pay by 1 November 2026: Law ՀՕ-76-Ն of 22.04.2025 does two things at once. Art. 4 moves the standing date in Tax Code Art. 158(2)(2) from 1 May to 1 July. Art. 5(2) then overrides that for reporting years 2024 and 2025 only, putting both the calculation and the budget payment at «նոյեմբերի 1-ը ներառյալ». That is why the standing text and the Big Four summaries appear to contradict each other — they describe different years.
From reporting year 2026: 2 March to 1 July: The transitional extension lapses and the standing rule returns.
Late filing and late payment: Art. 402: 5% of the calculated tax for each completed 15-day period, capped at the tax itself. Art. 401: 0.075% per day, up to 730 days.

Deadlines move — but not by the rule most people expect

A deadline falling on a non-working day moves to the next working day, and the rule is in the Law on Normative Legal Acts ՀՕ-180-Ն Art. 32(4) — not in the Tax Code, which has no general rule of its own and at least one express carve-out (Art. 402(1) accrues its penalty every 15 days regardless).

Two Armenian peculiarities matter and are counter-intuitive: a holiday falling on a weekend is not compensated, and a Saturday can be declared a working day by government decision — 18 April 2026 is one. Worked example: the Q3 2026 profit-tax advance is nominally due Sunday 20 September, Independence Day falls on the 21st, so the real date is Tuesday 22 September 2026.

Two duties foreigners miss

Register your address within 15 days of receiving residence status: Government Decision N 134-Ն, Annex 1, para. 2(12) — you sign an acknowledgement of this on the permit application itself.
Report a change of permanent residence within 7 days: Law on the Population State Register, Art. 7(1). A new register law arriving by 1 January 2027 changes this area; confirm the current position.

A commonly repeated claim that a registered lease is the address proof in a residence-permit file does not survive reading Annex 1 para. 1, which lists six documents and does not include one.

What is unresolved, and stays unresolved here

Publishing a confident answer to these would be worse than publishing nothing.

Driving licences. Article 27 of Law ՀՕ-166-Ն was rewritten twice in July 2025. Whether the three-month conversion clock binds foreign nationals or only Armenian citizens needs a lawyer, not a blog post.
The residence-permit filing window after 1 November 2026. Law ՀՕ-11-Ն deletes the statutory 30-day sentence and sets no replacement, leaving it to an implementing decision.
The beneficial-owner penalty. The provision to read is Art. 169.29 of the Code of Administrative Offences. We could not retrieve it from the official consolidation, so no figure appears here or in the app.
Public services number. No statutory deadline to obtain one was found. It is practically required for salary, tax and banking, which is a different thing from a legal deadline.

Relokit tracks all of the above with its sources attached and every item labelled sourced from law, not professionally verified. If you are a licensed Armenian lawyer or certified accountant and something here is wrong, please tell us which article we misread.