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Starting a Company in Portugal 2026: The Empresa na Hora Desk, the Sociedade por Quotas, the ENI Route, and How to Open a Business in 90 Minutes

Starting a Company in Portugal 2026: The Empresa na Hora Desk, the Sociedade por Quotas, the ENI Route, and How to Open a Business in 90 Minutes

Everything foreigners need to know about starting a company in Portugal in 2026 — Empresa na Hora, Empresa On-Line, the choice between ENI, unipessoal por quotas, por quotas and sociedade anónima, plus IRC, IVA, Segurança Social and a realistic 30-day timeline and cost sheet.

OECD Taxing Wages 2026 Lands With Portugal Among the Eleven Economies Where Labour Tax Fell — Average-Wage Wedge Drops to 39.3% After a Second Round of IRS Reform

OECD Taxing Wages 2026 Lands With Portugal Among the Eleven Economies Where Labour Tax Fell — Average-Wage Wedge Drops to 39.3% After a Second Round of IRS Reform

The OECD's Taxing Wages 2026 report, released 22 April, puts Portugal's single-worker labour tax wedge at 39.3% for 2025 — down a third consecutive year from 41.1% in 2023. Portugal is one of only 11 OECD economies where the wedge fell in 2025, against an OECD mean of 35.1% and an EU mean of 41.7%.

President Seguro Promulgates Diploma Extending the 'Direito ao Esquecimento' to HIV, Hepatitis C and Diabetes — Cancer Survivors, Chronic Patients and Disabled Borrowers Move Closer to a Non-Discriminatory Credit and Insurance Market

President Seguro Promulgates Diploma Extending the 'Direito ao Esquecimento' to HIV, Hepatitis C and Diabetes — Cancer Survivors, Chronic Patients and Disabled Borrowers Move Closer to a Non-Discriminatory Credit and Insurance Market

Seguro promulgated on 22 April a diploma extending Portugal's 'direito ao esquecimento' to HIV, Hepatitis C and Diabetes on top of oncological disease — binding banks, insurers and, for the first time, insurance mediators. What changes and how covered borrowers can use the new regime.

Selling Your House in Portugal 2026: The Escritura Pública, the Anexo G, the Mais-Valias Rules, and the Solicitador Process for Foreign Sellers

Selling Your House in Portugal 2026: The Escritura Pública, the Anexo G, the Mais-Valias Rules, and the Solicitador Process for Foreign Sellers

Everything foreign homeowners need to know about selling a property in Portugal in 2026 — the CPCV, the escritura pública, documents a buyer will demand, how mais-valias are calculated, the reinvestment exemption (with the April 2026 Tribunal Constitucional ruling), and the Anexo G declaration.

Paulo Carmona Takes the Presidency of Infraestruturas de Portugal as IP's 2025 Net Result Hits €135M — Cresap Clears DGEG Chief to Replace Miguel Cruz

Paulo Carmona Takes the Presidency of Infraestruturas de Portugal as IP's 2025 Net Result Hits €135M — Cresap Clears DGEG Chief to Replace Miguel Cruz

Cresap has cleared former DGEG chief Paulo Carmona as next president of Infraestruturas de Portugal, starting May. IP posts €135M 2025 net profit (+8.8%) — a record since 2015. Carmona inherits the TGV Porto–Lisboa line, Porto–Vigo, and the Lisboa–Madrid link with the Third Tagus Crossing.