Golden Visa residency

Residencies & citizenships Portugal Golden Visa 🇵🇹
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If i buy property to qualify for the Golden Visa program, am i able to live in that property for up to 183 days without becoming resident in Portugal for tax purposes? Perhaps another way to pose the question: as a Golden Visa holder, am i subject to the 90/180 rule?

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You can live as long as you want in Portugal…but yes, you are subject to the 90/180 rule in the rest of the Schengen countries…

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Thank you for your reply Alison. I understand that it is a residency visa, but my question pertained specifically to tax residency. If I live there for more than 183 days i become resident for tax purposes. My question specifically was whether if I live in the property I bought under the GV program for more than 90 days but less than 183 days consecutively, will the authorities deem me to be resident for tax purposes? Kind regards,

dw.

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Golden visa is a temporary resident permit. You can live in Portugal for more than 90 days. You will be considered a tax resident there only when you live in Portugal for 183 days or more in a year.

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Thanks again for your response ali

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Thanks again for your response Alison. So to be perfectly clear, there is no criterion for establishing tax residency other than 183 days? There is nothing about living in a home that you have purchased?

dw.

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I believe it is more complicated than simply a 183 day test. There are other affirmative steps you can take to become a tax resident in a country. Buying a home, by itself, should not subject you to tax residency but it is not plausible that you would buy a home in a country and have no other contacts or financial arrangements with that country, no?

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Thanks so much for your response. Living in the home would do things that, of course, start to make me look like I’m tax resident: having a bank account, a tax number to get it, a utilities account, a mortgage etc. But the basic point here is that I wish to live there for up to 183 days and NOT be deemed tax resident. I guess I’m just wondering if that’s possible,

dw.

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I don’t know the answer but I wanted to point out that there are probably some other factors. For example, i think Its obvious that if you apply for NHR status you would become tax resident even if you are there less than 183 days.

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True, but I’m not at all interested in NHR.

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In other words, it’s complicated and you probably need to discuss the situation with an accountant or tax lawyer if you’re going to push the line.

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hey thanks jeff