Everything you need to know about invoicing, VAT and Social Security in Portugal.
If you fall ill and can't work, Social Security pays you a sickness benefit - but there's a 10-day waiting period and limits worth knowing beforehand. A guide with deadlines, amounts and duration.
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The Segurança Social Direta portal is daunting at first. Here's the map of the areas a freelancer actually uses: the quarterly declaration, contributions, current account, contribution record and no-debt certificates.
Are you a student about to invoice your first jobs? You can issue green receipts - but it affects Social Security, your own IRS, and your dependant status on your parents' IRS. Here's what changes and what pays off.
Yes - use the benefit to your advantage: bring it forward all at once as capital, or only part and keep the rest monthly. The IEFP measure ties you in for 3 years.
If you're self-employed, Social Security does NOT cover your work accidents. You need your own insurance, mandatory by law (Law 98/2009). Here's who must have it, what it covers and the risk of going without.
You rent out a flat and don't know if it's category F or B, whether you need to open atividade, what rate you pay or what you can deduct? Here's everything in plain English.
You have NHR or IFICI and the IRS asks for the same income twice? It isn't a bug. Anexo L is where you declare the regime, without replacing the other annexes. Here's how.
Selling courses, digital products or goods to consumers in the EU? Above €10,000/year you charge the client country's VAT - the OSS does it in one return.
Invoicing services to EU businesses with no IVA (reverse charge)? You must also file the recapitulative statement. What it is, who files it, the deadlines.