FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Our interdisciplinary teams combine the highest level of qualifications to provide legal advice and assistance within the scope of structuring, global planning and implementation of foreign investment projects, elucidating and ensuring strict compliance with the legal standards applicable to each of the sectors in which they operate. inserted in the different jurisdictions, in order to reduce the entire process of bureaucratization typical of the Public Sector.
We also provide advice on all aspects related to international trade and customs, in areas that affect international business transactions, namely, quotas, tariffs, marking requirements, standards and labeling.
Our main Clients are foreign and national producers, transport companies, manufacturers and distributors, service providers, importers and other clients involved in the cross-border movement of goods, services and capital, linked to the most varied sectors of activity, mainly export companies. crude oil, refined oil products, gas, diamonds, wood, civil construction or environmental investment projects.
MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION
- Risk Analysis
- Compilance
- Representation before Public Entities
- Application for Public Funds
- Licensing
- Gold Visas
- Representation in property deeds
Tax incentives for scientific research and innovation - OE 2024
Recipients:
Taxable persons living abroad for 5 years
Number of beneficiaries: Unlimited
Budget impact in 2024: No impact
A new tax incentive for scientific research and innovation (IFICI) is created, aimed at attracting and retaining highly qualified staff for the fields of scientific research, investment and business development.
The incentive will be applied to researchers and highly qualified workers who, having not been tax residents in Portugal for the last 5 years, have become residents and earn income that falls within the following categories:
i. Careers of higher education and scientific research teachers, including scientific employment in entities, structures and networks dedicated to the production, dissemination and transmission of knowledge, integrated into the national science and technology system;
ii. Qualified jobs within the scope of contractual investment benefits;
iii. Research and development jobs, for workers with a doctorate, within the scope of SIFIDE.
The regime applies for a period of 10 years from the year of registration as a resident in Portugal and can only be used once by taxpayers.
Income from work or business and professional income, earned within the scope of the aforementioned activities, may be taxed at a special rate of 20%. Additionally, with regard to companies, the current tax regimes to support productive investment (RFAI and contractual benefits) are expanded, supporting the creation of qualified jobs (with a master's degree or higher).
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