by Roger Warwick | Sep 13, 2023 | Fiscal, Rentals
The Prime Minister, António Costa, stated today that the Government is thinking about establishing a legal limit on increases for the monthly rents of long-term rental contracts in 2024, as has been expected for some time. We have already reported on this blog that... 
by Roger Warwick | Sep 12, 2023 | Fiscal, Rentals
The INE (National Institute of Statistics) released today the official rates of inflation, one of which is the annual increase of rents coefficient.The final number is 6.94% – close to the 7% that had already been predicted by the owners associations, so rents... 
by Roger Warwick | Sep 7, 2023 | Alojamento Local, Fiscal, Mais Habitação
The “Mais Habitação” law has not yet been fully approved, and there is still a possibility that this tax in particular is considered unconstitutional, but if it goes ahead in its current form, I believe the following is a reasonable summary of how it will... 
by Roger Warwick | Sep 7, 2023 | Fiscal, Owners
The following article explains, in Portuguese, how professional investors in AL could be negatively affected in terms of VAT by the Mais Habitação package, if finally passed in its current form. An investor with a company (or a VAT registered sole trader) could have... 
by Roger Warwick | Sep 7, 2023 | Fiscal
When an owner registers a rental contract with Finanças (which, as we’ve discussed previously on this page, can be from 1 day to 30 years in duration), what happens if the tenant doesn’t have a NIF? (NIF is the Portuguese term for the VAT or fiscal number)...
