Moving to Portugal with a company abroad
We set out your first Portuguese tax year, what your move means for the company you keep abroad, and how it can pay you.
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In short
Your Portuguese tax residence starts on the first day of your stay if you spend more than 183 days here in a 12-month period, or keep a habitual home here. From then, Portugal taxes your worldwide income. A company with its registered office or effective management in Portugal is resident here under Portuguese law, wherever it was incorporated, and a tax treaty can affect a dual-residence case. Your work here can create a permanent establishment, making part of the company's profit taxable here. A resident who owns 25% or more of a low-taxed company abroad, alone or with family and related companies, can also be taxed here on its profits.
What decides it:
- the date your residence starts, and the income you bring;
- where the company's management decisions are taken, and by whom;
- what you do for the company from Portugal, and whether you negotiate or sign its contracts;
- the tax the company pays where it is based, and how it pays you.
What you get
- When your Portuguese tax residence starts, and how each main source of your income is taxed in your first year, with its calendar.
- Where the company is resident, and whether your work here creates a permanent establishment.
- Whether the rule on low-taxed companies abroad reaches the company.
- How you can be paid, as a salary, dividends or both, with the tax on each route here.
- Coordination with your adviser in the country you are leaving.
- A call with your adviser when your case needs it.
How it works
- Send your request. We reply within 2 working days with the price, a start date and your payment link.
- After payment, you upload your documents in your portal, such as your recent returns and the company's accounts and board minutes.
- Your advice reaches your portal, signed by your adviser, with your first-year calendar. If it shows further work, we tell you its fee first.
The dates that matter
If you may qualify for IFICI and your residence starts in 2026, register by 15 January 2027.
What is not included
- Your first Portuguese return, which is a separate service.
- The company's accounts and every return outside Portugal, which the advisers there prepare.
- The tax law of the company's country, which stays with your adviser there.
- Moving the company, which is our Restructuring service, and corporate law work, which sits outside our tax advice.
- A dispute between the two tax authorities over the company's residence, which we quote separately.
What clients say
My salary was still being paid from the US, but California also thought I had not really left. I needed someone who understood Portugal first, then could read the treaty and the state-residency problem without turning it into guesswork. The advice gave my US CPA a clear position to work from.
American tech employee, Lisbon You deal directly with the person doing the analysis. No account managers, no ticket numbers. When my situation changed a year later, I emailed and got a straight answer from the same person who already knew my file.
Canadian founder, Lisbon
From clients we have advised. Names withheld at their request.
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Questions
What does IFICI add?
With IFICI, the project adds the eligibility advice, the evidence file and the registration request, made by the deadline. If the eligibility advice concludes that IFICI does not apply, we continue without it and refund the difference.
Can the company pay?
The company can pay, at the company price we confirm in our reply.
Our team
Our advisers check, decide and sign the advice in this project. If you have a question first, write to info@taxbordr.com or message us on WhatsApp.