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Tax and structurePortugal · Spain · UAEDubai at 9% beats Lisbon at 19% until you ask where you live. And Portugal still blacklists the UAE, while Spain delisted it in 2023.Open the tool →
Tax and structureWhat actually reaches youSalary or dividends is the wrong argument. The aggregation election in art. 40.º-A CIRS halves the dividend in your taxable income and beats the 28% flat rate.Open the tool →
Tax and structureMadeira dividend waterfallThe 5% rate is the easy part. The shareholder exemption in EBF art. 36.º-A is proportional, and three situations switch it off entirely. Model your own mix.Open the tool →
Tax and structureParticipation exemption checkerDividends and share gains out of taxable profit at 10% held for a year. No special vehicle needed — and the rate test gets easier every year to 2028.Open the tool →
Tax and structureCorporate tax glide path, 2025 to 2028The IRC rate goes 20, 19, 18, 17. The reduced band for small companies moves once and stops, and the surcharge above €1.5m has not moved since 2017.Open the tool →
Tax and structureEffective corporate tax by address · 2026The address changes your tax rate twice: the corporate rate band and the municipal surcharge. Interior at 12.5%, islands lower, and what each costs you.Open the tool →
Tax and structureFour routes, all in, 2026 ratesThe islands are not two versions of one offer. Madeira’s 5% regime against the Azores SME rate of 8.75%, with the conditions, VAT and the honest comparison.Open the tool →
Tax and structureMIBC vs Madeira vs mainland · 2026 ratesLicence by 31 December 2026 and the 5% rate runs to 2033. What Article 36.º-A requires, the job-linked ceilings, and four ways to be excluded.Open the tool →
Tax and structureDomestic law against the treatyDividends 5 or 15%, interest and royalties 10%. But Portuguese domestic law gives a US parent 0% on dividends, so the treaty claim can cost you money.Open the tool →
PeopleWhat a Portuguese hire costs the companyFourteen payments, 23.75% employer social security, compulsory insurance. What a Portuguese hire really costs, and the rule that changed in January 2026.Open the tool →
PeopleWhat the employer owesThe five-year social security exemption does not apply to an employee who moved on their own. Without a certificate of coverage you pay both systems at once.Open the tool →
Compliance and VATOne sale, four answersA missing VIES number or recapitulative statement now voids the 0% exemption itself. The €10,000 OSS threshold is one figure for the whole EU.Open the tool →
Compliance and VATWhat is due nextInvoice data on the 5th, VAT on the 20th, Modelo 22, IES in July, three payments on account. The 2026 dates as the tax authority published them.Open the tool →
Compliance and VATClose now, or let it run · official feesYou cannot simply stop. Official registry fees from €170, the two-year liquidation window, and the article that reverses the burden of proof onto the manager.Open the tool →
MarketDoes Portugal pay for itself?How to find out whether Portugal is big enough to justify an entity, which free official sources answer it, and which research is theatre.Open the tool →
MarketAcquisition cost in a new EU marketPublished CPC benchmarks disagree by multiples on the same country. Why that happens, what survives it, and the cost that dominates European CAC anyway.Open the tool →
MarketForeign residents by nationality1.59 million foreign residents, 14% of the population. Brazil leads, Americans grew 36% in a year, and the two official sources disagree by 80,000.Open the tool →
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