Immigration and Borders Service (SEF-Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), has beed replaced by several institutions, such as the recently created AIMA. It's now official, SEF was actually abolished on 29 October and all its police and administrative functions will now be carried out by other institutions. Find out what changes!

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’.