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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Under the simplified regime, a self-employed worker’s IRS depends on one number: the coefficient. For a professional activity, 75% of what you invoice is taxed; for other services, only 35%. The difference is large and is decided, to a great
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
If you issue recibos verdes, you pay IRS under one of two regimes. Under the simplified regime, the Tax Authority taxes a fixed percentage of what you invoice; under organised accounting, you pay on your real profit, after all your
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
If you work on recibos verdes, the Tax Authority may ask you every year for three advance payments of IRS: in July, September and December. The amount is calculated from your IRS of two years earlier, so it does not
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
When what you invoice to clients in Portugal goes over €15,000 in a year, you are no longer VAT-exempt. When you start charging depends on how far you went over the limit. From then on, there is a return to
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
When a client with organised accounting pays you, it keeps part of the amount and pays it to the Tax Authority on your behalf. It is not an extra tax – it is IRS paid in advance – but it
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
When your client is a company outside Portugal, the invoice changes. For most services you do not charge Portuguese VAT, there is no withholding tax and the amount does not even count towards the €15,000 limit. But it all depends
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Issuing a recibo verde takes two minutes, but every field has consequences. The NIF decides who sees the expense, the VAT regime decides whether you charge tax and the withholding option decides how much you receive. These are the five
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
NIF, visa, bank account, NISS, opening activity, tax residence: if you are moving to Portugal to work for yourself, there is a lot to sort out, and many steps depend on each other. These are the five rules to avoid
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
If you are asked to do a one-off job and do not have an open activity, the ato isolado (one-off act) lets you invoice it without registering as self-employed. But it only works for an occasional transaction, and the VAT,
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
When you start out as self-employed, you pay less at first: no Social Security for a year, reduced IRS for two tax years and, in many cases, no VAT to charge. But each benefit has conditions and an end date,
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
Opening activity is quick and free, but two choices you make on that form – your activity code and your expected turnover – decide how much IRS you pay, whether you charge VAT and how much is withheld from each
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- Step Inside Accounting, Self-Employee
If you work on recibos verdes under the simplified regime, December is the time to review your expenses, VAT and Social Security. An hour of review now avoids paying too much income tax in 2027 and surprises in January.