Pre-Daysium days are the days you spent in each jurisdiction earlier in the tax year, before Daysium began recording your location. They matter because your day count for that first year is only complete once they are included.
What are pre-Daysium days?
Pre-Daysium days cover the period between the start of the tax year and the point at which Daysium Mobile started recording your movements. They are the days you spent in each jurisdiction before that point.
They are only needed for your first tax year with Daysium. From then on your days are recorded automatically.
Who enters them
You do not need to enter pre-Daysium days yourself. You provide the figures and the Daysium team sets them up on your account.
Send us the number of days for each jurisdiction you are counting, and we will apply them. If you are not sure what those figures should be, tell us what you have and we will work through it with you.
Important: Daysium uses the figures you provide exactly as given. We do not independently verify them, so the count is only as accurate as the information behind it.
How your jurisdiction counts a day
Give us the number of days each jurisdiction would count, rather than simply the number of days you were in the country. Countries do not all count days the same way.
Some count a day only if you were present at midnight.
Most count a day if you were present at any point during it, so both the day you arrive and the day you leave count.
A few set out their own rules in law and treat arrival and departure days differently again.
Your adviser can confirm how the jurisdiction you are counting for treats arrival and departure days. It is worth getting right, because the figure carries straight into your count for the year.
Note: Until your pre-Daysium days are set up, your day count for that tax year will not be complete. Send us your figures as early as you can.
Schengen is measured differently
Pre-Daysium days apply to the Schengen visa rule as well, but the period is not a tax year. The Schengen rule looks back over the last 180 days, so the days needed are those falling within that rolling window rather than since the start of a tax year.
Why they matter
Your day count for a jurisdiction is only meaningful if it covers the whole period the rule measures. Without pre-Daysium days, a first-year count starts from the day Daysium began recording and understates how long you have actually spent there.
Including them gives you a complete record for the year, and a count your adviser can rely on.
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