CGT on sale of property
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CGT on sale of property
Any updates regarding the thorny issue of Capital gain tax in Portugal 2022.............see here
https://www.korepartners.com/insight...ts-in-portugal
https://www.korepartners.com/insight...ts-in-portugal
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Re: CGT on sale of property
Read the article. It discusses the discriminatory issue raised by the EU of resident vs non-resident treatment in Portugal of how much CGT to pay when selling a house. Unless I’ve missed something, it doesn’t offer however a conclusion that is now law in Portugal….ie it suggests it’s still a debate noting various options and consequently non residents have still to lodge a case in court to opt to pay less CGT in line with residents. Does anyone know if the Portugal law has indeed changed to be non discriminatory and the court route is thus not required.
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Yes, the 2023 budget reflects a proposal passed by Parliament earlier this year to tax non-residents on the same basis as residents with regard to tax on capital gains from property sales.
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Thanks. Also just read an article in the Portugal News (Nov 22) which confirms the end of the discrimination with the approval of the 2023 budget by Parliament. Good news for non residents selling this year. Do we know if it’s retrospective? ie like me that sold in Dec 21 and paid the full 28% tax in 2022?
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Old rule of 28%, tax would be e22,400
New rule 80K/2 = e40K taxable at 45% = e18,000 - deduction of 6K = e12,000...(45% is tax rate for income of between 36 and 80K)
so a saving of e10K
However I would assume that as the same rules would apply, you would also have to declare any other worldwide income to add to the Gain, which then increases the Tax payable, unless they are allowing Doublke Taxation to take effect.
Do we know if they will allow the more important part of the PT residents ability, which is to reinvest in another NON EU country, and only pay tax on the part not reinvested??
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IN reply to my own last message.........on the last point....if reinvestment roll over outside of EU is allowed as a non resident, then if one was a resident of PT, with a property that was your main home, then by definition reinvestment would be allowed outside of the EU, for another main home, eg back in UK.....??
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Not sure where you're getting the notion that there's any possibility of getting a concession on reinvestment in a main residence outside the EU.
The only reason the concession extends to the whole EU as opposed to just within Portugal is to comply with EU regs on free movement of capital. As soon as you take the capital out of the EU, the EU institutions have no interest any more and it becomes a matter between you and the relevant tax authorities.
The only reason the concession extends to the whole EU as opposed to just within Portugal is to comply with EU regs on free movement of capital. As soon as you take the capital out of the EU, the EU institutions have no interest any more and it becomes a matter between you and the relevant tax authorities.
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Thanks. Also just read an article in the Portugal News (Nov 22) which confirms the end of the discrimination with the approval of the 2023 budget by Parliament. Good news for non residents selling this year. Do we know if it’s retrospective? ie like me that sold in Dec 21 and paid the full 28% tax in 2022?
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The tax rule for non residents at the time was 28% of the full gain which is what I paid as opposed to 28% of 50% of the gain if I were a PT resident unless it was reinvested in PT/EU. The new law ends this discrimination but I haven’t seen it stated what exactly is the new calculation for non-residents and also I’m assuming for PT residents there is no change to the CGT calculation. If anyone has a recent extract I’d be grateful.
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Actually, the rule for residents is that 50% of the gain is taxed at the appropriate scale rates, taking all other income into consideration (so it won't be fixed at 28% - and could well be a good deal higher. But yes, it is only on 50% of the gain).
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And you have to add any gain to all other income, not only from pt but anywhere else, to get the total taxable amount, taxed at normal tax rates in PT.
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My wife and I are in a similar situation to Rooftile and I'd be interested to know whether this regularisation of the discriminatory treatment of non residents will be applied retrospectively and to third country residents?
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And yes, it applies to the sale of all property, with the exemption available only in the case of eligible reinvestment of the sale proceeds.