If you have lived in Portugal for less than 5 years, and you have an EU certificate from the town hall (CREU), the expiry date on your new Withdrawal Agreement residence card may not be the date on which you will have been resident in Portugal for 5 years in total, therefore on which you are eligible for permanent resident status.

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.