Move & Residency Tax Plan
Relocation decisions create tax consequences long before first filing. Residency timing, regime pathway, and home-country obligations can conflict if not designed together.
Move & Residency Tax Plan gives you a written first-year position before those decisions lock in.
- Residency-trigger analysis with first-year filing implications.
- Regime pathway analysis, including IFICI readiness.
- Cross-border risk map and action timeline across jurisdictions.
Is This for You?
This service fits if you:
Are moving to Portugal in the next 3-12 months and need residency timing clarity.
Recently arrived and need first-year position design before filing.
Have income or assets in multiple countries and need one coherent route.
Need IFICI pathway clarity before application execution.
Want written planning output you can use with filing advisors.
Not a Fit If...
This service is not the best starting point if you:
What's Included
You receive a fixed-scope planning package with these outputs:
- Residency trigger assessment: determination of when Portuguese residency obligations likely start or end, and related dependencies.
- First-year tax position design: structured view of filing and reporting implications for the move year.
- Regime pathway analysis: IFICI and other pathway readiness review, including eligibility indicators and timing risks.
- Cross-border risk map: treaty and multi-country mismatch risks likely to create rework or penalties.
- Action timeline: sequencing of decisions, deadlines, and preparatory actions.
- Written Position Memo: document of recommended route, assumptions, and required next steps.
The objective is to reduce first-year errors and route you into execution with scope clarity.
What's Not Included
This planning service does not include:
- Immigration legal filing or visa legal work.
- Annual return filing execution.
- IFICI application submission.
- Home-country return preparation.
- Litigation or tax-court representation.
- Ongoing retainer advisory beyond the fixed plan scope.
Intake and complexity triage (Week 1)
We collect move timing, country exposure, income profile, and advisor context.
Planning consultation (Week 1)
A focused Tax Consultation helps you evaluate high-impact residency and pathway decisions.
Technical analysis (Weeks 2-3)
We model first-year position, regime pathway, and cross-border dependencies.
Memo review and route handoff (Weeks 3-4)
You receive the written plan and next-step routing into execution services.Typical timeline is 2-4 weeks from complete intake.
Pricing + Complexity Drivers
From EUR 1,495. Final fixed fee is confirmed before work begins.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. It is also built for recently arrived clients who need first-year position clarity before filing.
No. This service handles pathway and readiness. Submission is separate under IFICI Regime Application.
When needed, we provide documented assumptions and outputs that support coordinated execution.
Where relevant, transition considerations are handled inside this planning scope.
Typical delivery is 2-4 weeks, depending on data completeness and profile complexity.
Some clients do, but for many cross-border profiles, setting planning logic first can reduce rework.
Material changes are handled through written scope-change confirmation before additional work.
Use Tax Starting Point to decide the right next scope.
Complete, consistent inputs at the start. If key records are missing or contradictory, we log assumptions, request clarifications, and pause downstream steps until the data is usable.
Yes. Taxbordr can provide written outputs designed for handoff so your existing preparer can execute from the same assumptions.
We document material changes in writing before additional work starts. That keeps delivery, price, and responsibility boundaries explicit.
A documented package you can use immediately: clear scope status, action sequence, and next-step routing into the right execution path.
Founder & Approach
Taxbordr treats relocation tax as a sequencing problem: the right decisions in the right order. This service is designed to document that order before execution begins, so filing, IFICI work, and cross-border coordination run from one consistent position.
In practice, this means we treat every engagement as a controlled workflow. We define the decision boundary, lock assumptions, and document any exception path before work expands. Clients get predictable outputs because scope is designed first and delivery follows that design. This reduces rework, avoids contradictory advisor instructions, and keeps later filing or application work anchored to one written baseline instead of fragmented verbal guidance.
Quality control is built into each stage. We separate fact capture from conclusion, keep assumptions explicit, and confirm decision points before downstream execution begins. When third parties are involved, we issue handoff-ready notes so each party works from the same baseline. This prevents the common pattern where one advisor optimizes for local filing convenience while creating unresolved exposure elsewhere. We also preserve an audit trail of key choices, so if facts change later, updates can be scoped quickly without rebuilding the full engagement from scratch.
Commercially, this model also protects clients from hidden escalation. The baseline scope is visible up front, exclusions are explicit, and any expansion is approved before work changes. That structure matters in cross-border tax because uncertainty is normal, but uncontrolled uncertainty is expensive. By forcing scope clarity at each checkpoint, the engagement stays defensible, timelines stay realistic, and handoffs remain usable for filing and compliance teams.
Related Services
Annual Portugal Tax Return (Expats)
IFICI Regime Application
Cross-Border Tax Coordination
Move with a documented tax plan, not assumptions.
Taxbordr provides tax advisory services and does not provide immigration legal services.
This page is informational and does not guarantee any specific tax outcome or regime approval. Outcomes depend on facts, law, and authority decisions.