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- Tax, Live in Portugal
If you pay someone to clean your home in Portugal, you're their employer — even if they only come a few hours a week. Here's how to register them with Social Security, how much you'll pay in contributions, what you
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- Step Inside Accounting, Company
Many partner-managers decide not to take a salary to save on contributions. But being an unpaid manager does not, on its own, mean not paying Social Security. It all depends on whether or not you have other mandatory social protection,
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
If you have a house or an apartment in alojamento local (short-term rental), you can choose every year how you pay IRS: as a self-employed worker, on a fixed percentage of what you receive, or as if it were rent,
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Issuing recibos verdes is the easy part. What takes work are the deadlines: the tax authority (Finanças) and Social Security, every month, every quarter and every year. We have put everything in one place, with the year's calendar, so you
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Four times a year, self-employed workers tell Social Security how much they invoiced in the previous three months. That figure is used to calculate the contributions for the next three months. It takes five minutes, but forgetting it or getting
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Anyone opening an activity for the first time gets a year without contributions. After that, you pay every month an amount calculated from what you invoiced in the previous quarter. Understanding the calculation helps you set money aside, choose the
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Many professionals – lawyers, architects, doctors, consultants – move from recibos verdes to a company with colleagues. But some of these companies do not pay IRC (corporate income tax): the profit is attributed to the partners and taxed in their
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Writers, illustrators, photographers, musicians and other creators often receive copyright income (direitos de autor). When the income belongs to the author, it is treated as self-employment income and has a benefit few people know about: only half counts for IRS,
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
In IRS, every type of income has a category, and each category has its own rules for calculation, withholding and reporting. Category B is the one for self-employed workers and sole traders. It includes recibos verdes, but also other income
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
When you sell a home you used for alojamento local, the IRS on the gain depends on a calendar. If the property is still part of the activity, or left it less than three years ago, the gain is taxed
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Running an apartment as alojamento local (short-term holiday rental) is not the same as renting it out: it is an activity, with a start of activity at the Tax Authority and self-employed income. The tax depends on the type of
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Under the simplified regime you do not have to prove expenses – with one exception. For services, you have to justify expenses equal to 15% of what you invoice. Whatever is missing is added to your taxable income. For many