Tax regime for non-habitual residents
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How can you acquire Non-Habitual Resident Status?
1. Having not been a resident in Portugal for the last 5 years; 2. Register at the local tax office as a tax resident in Portugal (to do so you must have remained in Portugal for more than 183 consecutive or non-consecutive days, or having remained for less time, having, at 31st December of that year, a home in such conditions that would lead to the assumption that it is intended to be kept and occupied as your habitual residence); 3. The request for enrolment as a non-habitual resident must be made, electronically, on the Treasury Portal, after registering as a resident in Portuguese territory and until the 31st of March of the year following the year you became a resident in this territory. Once Non-Habitual Resident Status has been obtained, what is the taxation rate and incidence applicable to domestic source income? In the case of dependent or independent work, the applicable tax rate is 20%. Taxation applies to income derived from high added value activities of a scientific, artistic or technical nature:
Registration as a Non-Habitual Resident confers the right to be taxed as such for a period of 10 years as from the year of registering as a tax resident in Portuguese territory. Once Non-Habitual Resident Status has been obtained, in which cases is foreign income obtained by Non-Habitual Residents in Portugal exempt from taxation? In the case of pensioners and retired people when:
In the case of income derived from employment, when:
In the case of income from self-employment (through the provision of services of a high added value, of a scientific, artistic or technical nature, or through intellectual or industrial property, investment income, rental income, capital gains income or other increases in equity), when:
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