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.
Our services
Tax Consultation for your companyWe 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.
Starting a companyIf 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.
RestructuringWe 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.
Selling shares or a businessWe 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.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.
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.
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 usOur advisers check, decide and sign the advice for the company and its owners; our operations team keeps your file and your calendar.
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Not your situation?
SituationHiring in Portugal from abroadIf you are abroad and hiring your first staff here, see Hiring in Portugal from abroad.
SituationA foreign company with staff in PortugalIf your company abroad already has staff here, see A foreign company with staff in Portugal.
SituationCompaniesCompanies lists every service for companies and their owners.
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