Leaving Portugal

In short

Portugal taxes a resident on worldwide income and a non-resident only on income obtained in Portugal. Leaving narrows what Portugal taxes, but income you keep here, such as rent from a Portuguese property or the gain when you sell it, stays taxable here. The exit year has its own rules, and decisions such as the timing of a sale are easier to take before your residence ends.

What decides it:

• the date your residence ends, and the evidence for it;
• the income and the assets you keep in Portugal;
• the country where you become resident next;
• how the tax authority's notices reach you once you live abroad.

What you get

• When your Portuguese tax residence ends, and how your exit year is taxed.
• What stays taxable in Portugal after you leave.
• How the tax authority's notices and deadlines reach you once you have left.
• Coordination with your adviser in your new country, so that both countries work from the same departure date.
• A call with your adviser when your case needs it.

How it works

1. 01Send your request. We reply within 2 working days with the price, a start date and your payment link.
2. 02After payment, you upload your documents in your portal, such as your recent returns and the evidence of your departure date.
3. 03Your advice reaches your portal, signed by your adviser, with what to do before and after you leave. If it shows further work, we tell you its fee first.

What is not included

• The exit-year return, which we can prepare at the return price.
• Your returns in your new country, which your adviser there prepares and files.
• Advice on the tax of your new country, which stays with your adviser there.