Starting a Business in Portugal: 2026 Cost Overview
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VAT registration is mandatory above EUR 12,500 (services) or EUR 15,000 (goods) annual turnover. The Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) regime provides a 20% flat tax rate on Portuguese-source employment and self-employment income for qualifying new residents.
AfterVAT registration is mandatory above the unified EUR 15,000 annual turnover threshold. The IFICI tax regime, which replaced the closed Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) regime, provides a 20% flat tax rate on Portuguese-source employment and self-employment income for qualifying new residents in research, innovation, and startup roles.
Why: The article fabricated a split EUR 12,500/15,000 VAT threshold that does not exist (Portugal uses a single unified EUR 15,000 threshold), and described the closed NHR regime in the present tense as if still open to new applicants, rather than correctly identifying the current IFICI regime that replaced it.
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