# A Portuguese company with foreign clients or founders

If your Portuguese company has clients or founders abroad, we set out its tax, its VAT on sales abroad and how its founders are paid.

[Tell us about your situation](#request)

## Our services

- [Tax Consultation for your company We answer one question for the company and its owners together, such as how a founder abroad is paid, through a 30-minute call and a follow-up memo.](/services/tax-consultation-company/)
- [Starting a company If the company is not yet formed, we set out the regime to choose, its registrations and its first-year obligations, with founders abroad taken into account.](/services/starting-a-company/)
- [Restructuring We set out the alternatives for a holding structure, moving the company or the way founders are paid, with the figures and the steps for each.](/services/restructuring/)
- [Selling shares or a business We set out the tax on a sale of shares or of the business, and the effect of its timing and of where the owners live.](/services/selling-shares-or-business/)
- Our partner accountant

  The accounts and the corporate return are work for a certified accountant, and our partner accountant can take them on and bill them directly.

## Related services

- Moving to Portugal

  [Moving to Portugal: your first tax year](/services/moving-to-portugal/)
- Moving to Portugal

  [IFICI registration](/services/ifici-regime-application/)
- Living in Portugal

  [Annual Tax Support](/services/annual-tax-support/)

## What decides your case

- A company registered or effectively managed in Portugal is resident here.
- Salary is deductible and taxed at progressive rates; dividends come from taxed profit, at 28% for a resident founder.
- Sales to EU businesses normally carry no Portuguese VAT; sales to consumers usually do.
- A holding, a move or a sale changes the tax for the company and its founders.

## Tax Consultation for your company

A 30-minute call with your adviser on a question for you and the company, then a follow-up memo within 3 working days after the call.

Bring one question for you and the company together, such as how a founder abroad is paid.

Your call is with a Taxbordr adviser

[Request a Tax Consultation for your company](/services/tax-consultation-company/#request)

## What clients say

- > Taxbordr’s entity-versus-freelancer analysis proved I didn’t need a Portuguese company. Staying as a sole trader with corrected recibos verdes (Portugal’s self-employment receipts) reduced avoidable corporate and compliance friction.

  Canadian freelancer, Lisbon
- > Taxbordr filed my Portuguese return and sent my US CPA a coordination summary that recovered foreign tax credits I had been leaving on the table for two years.

  American cross-border client, Lisbon

From clients we have advised. Names withheld at their request.

## Our team

 [About us](/about/)

Our advisers check, decide and sign the advice for the company and its owners; our operations team keeps your file and your calendar.

[Telmo Ramos](/about/) Founder · Economist · Ordem dos Economistas, member no. 16379 Lisbon [info@taxbordr.com](mailto:info@taxbordr.com) · [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=351217009536)

## Guides

 [See all insights](/insights/)

- Updated 19 June 2026

  [VAT in Portugal](/guides/vat-tax-portugal/)
- Updated 13 June 2026

  [Cross-border tax in Portugal](/guides/cross-border-tax-portugal/)
- Updated 13 June 2026

  [CAE codes in Portugal and IFICI](/guides/ifici-qualifying-sectors-cae-codes/)
- Updated 13 June 2026

  [Portugal capital gains tax 2026: residents and non-residents](/guides/capital-gains-tax-portugal/)

## Related situations

Something else

Not your situation?

[Start here](/find-the-right-help/)

- [Situation Hiring in Portugal from abroad If you are abroad and hiring your first staff here, see Hiring in Portugal from abroad.](/companies/hiring-from-abroad/)
- [Situation A foreign company with staff in Portugal If your company abroad already has staff here, see A foreign company with staff in Portugal.](/companies/foreign-company-staff-in-portugal/)
- [Situation Companies Companies lists every service for companies and their owners.](/companies/)

## Tell us about your situation

We reply within 2 working days with the right service, its price and how to start. You can also write to [info@taxbordr.com](mailto:info@taxbordr.com) or message us on [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=351217009536).

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Source: https://taxbordr.com/companies/portuguese-company-international/

General guidance only. Individual facts govern.