Steve You have summed up the situation admirably. EU Directives on Age Discrimination apart from employment also cover supply of goods and services. It would seem that Continente or their French Bank could have failed to comply with the EU Directives in limiting the issue of the Universo card to peo...

The Non habitual system seems to be a minefield and professional charges for completing the various forms are very high. As I understand it, for company pensions, the exemption applies only if they are taxed in the country of origin. This would avoid the very high Portuguese tax rates. However the U...

Thanks for this informative posting. My partner and I were planning to retire to the Algarve but the disparity between UK and Portuguese tax, that you have highlighted, is far too great to contemplate a move at the the present time.I n addition I was reading that over 500,000 young Portuguese left t...