Portugal
A company in a day, the Atlantic port of Sines — and Madeira at five per cent until 2028
Portugal is a small market — under eleven million people — and its value lies in three things. First, a company can be formed the same day through Empresa na Hora, administratively the fastest in the Union. Second, the deepwater port of Sines is continental Europe's westernmost point and is growing as an Atlantic gateway. Third, the Madeira International Business Centre offers an approved entity 5 % profit tax to the end of 2028 — an authorised state-aid regime rather than a tax haven, with strict conditions on employment and genuine activity. Administratively, one rule stands out: only software certified by the tax authority may issue an invoice.
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Setting up a company
Setting up a company and tax are the part of the profile you cannot assemble elsewhere in an afternoon. The rest of the page is open.
- ·Legal forms
- ·Minimum capital
- ·How long registration takes
Taxes
Setting up a company and tax are the part of the profile you cannot assemble elsewhere in an afternoon. The rest of the page is open.
- ·Corporate income tax
- ·VAT
What it makes and needs
Automotive components and moulds, footwear and textiles, agri-food and wine, renewable energy, tourism, IT services and outsourcing. It buys machinery, components, technology and raw materials.
Importing into their market
The Union's single market — no duty and no customs declaration. A supply to a VAT-registered customer in Portugalska is an intra-Community supply, exempt, with the customer accounting for the tax. It depends on a VAT number checked in VIES and on proof of transport — without both, the exemption falls away and you pay.
CERTIFIED INVOICING SOFTWARE. In Portugal only a programme certified by the tax authority may issue an invoice; it signs every document and generates the numbering without gaps. A spreadsheet or a word processor is not permitted. It does not affect a Slovak company invoicing from Slovakia; it applies from the moment you set up a company there or register for Portuguese VAT.
If people travel with the goods — installation, servicing, training — that is posting of workers. Notification before work starts, the local minimum wage and allowances, documentation in the host country's language, and an A1 for each. It is inspected and the fines are high.
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Where a country has no mission in Bratislava or Prague it is usually accredited from Vienna, Berlin or Warsaw — the register says which.
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