Roasted chestnuts, fun rides, merchants selling a wide range of items are some of the most defining features of these traditional autumn fairs that will take place in the coming weeks around the Algarve, free entrance and parking.

Further to the announcement last Monday 2nd October 2023 regarding the State Budget Law Proposal for 2024 proposes the end of the (NHR) Non-Habitual Resident regime and foresees a new tax incentive for scientific research and innovation.

The Portal das Finanças now has an ‘online help’ feature with automated answers to frequently asked questions, where taxpayers with links to the UK, for example, can ask questions about tax implications following ‘Brexit’.

In 2019 Portugal surpassed the mark of half a million foreign residents, who now represent almost 6 percent of the country’s population, according to a report from the Observatory of Migration (OM), released in December 2020.

The Algarve municipality of Lagoa has been named one of the safest destinations to visit in Europe in 2021, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to online portal European Best Destinations (EBD). Destinations were selected based on criteria such as “the number of active cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, the number of deaths, health measures, recommendations put in place by the authorities to welcome you in hotels, tourist accommodations, shops and restaurants in compliance with health standards”.