Living and Working in Portugal

Citizens of EU states are so much lucky since they could enter Portugal by just showing a valid passport or identity card. On the other hand, visitors who opt to stay not longer for three months don’t need to apply for a residence permit. For those who intends to stay for three months to about a year need to apply for a temporary residence permit and those new arrivals who intend to stay longer in the year in the country need to apply for a full residence permit. The permits can be acquired from the Servico de Estrangerios Fronteiras. While applying for a residence permit, you will be issued a receipt which you will need to obtain your cartao. A residence permit should be carried at all times since this is your official identification card.

For those who want to work in Portugal, members of the EU need not apply for a working permit in order to work in Portugal but most follow the residency requirements as explained above. Fiscal numbers are also needed by the workers and this will be given at a time during the residency approval. For the first few months of work, a temporary number is given. Income tax or IRS needs to be paid by both residents and non-residents. IRS is self-assessed and needs to be paid after a month after the tax office sends out the notice of tax owed. For non-residents, they are only taxed in the income received while staying in Portugal. Residents are only accountable to IRS on their worldwide income. You can only be a resident in the following condition: you are staying in Portugal for 183 days of the calendar year. As for double taxation, they can only occur when income from one country is received and both is taxed. To avoid this problem, Portugal has taxation agreements will all members of the EU that states that each one gives up or reduces its tax in certain situations.

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