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Forum: Portugal
Sep 4th 2024, 5:36 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 2,245
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: financial advisor

Only just looked at this thread.

I have Dennis Swing Greene on my skype contacts - but haven't spoken to him for years.

However right now it shows him as 'driving'???

There are several PT...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 2nd 2024, 2:45 am
Replies: 5
Views: 3,465
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Gifting property in Portugal

After further digging around on this, I remarkably was able to find a website that described the PT side of this in great detail. As per dingg you need to get proper advice but there are indications...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 2nd 2024, 2:01 am
Replies: 6
Views: 880
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Insure UK occupied house whilst resident PT?

It's about the fact that for UK IHT - for your mother's estate - the transfer hasn't taken place for IHT purposes where it isn't properly arms-length, meaning that she now needs to pay rent to...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 2nd 2024, 1:30 am
Replies: 6
Views: 880
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Insure UK occupied house whilst resident PT?

Before the conveyance is completed you need to consider this, which of course may not be relevant in this particular case:

A gift with reservation of benefit refers to when you gift a property,...
Forum: Portugal
Aug 28th 2024, 10:24 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,465
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Gifting property in Portugal

I don't see any indication that PT will levy any sort of tax on disposal of a PT property as a gift but since you are UK resident and intend to dispose of assets to connected persons, you would be...
Forum: Portugal
Jan 21st 2024, 7:12 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,608
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Airline Claim

And I'm guessing that your flight actually arrived at the gate at 8:00am, which of course left no time for any connection.

Presumably there were numerous passngers who also had connection problems...
Forum: Portugal
Jan 9th 2024, 6:35 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,623
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Mental Health

I have mental health issues in the UK and as a post cancer patient and with a child with serious mental health issues I have often been overwhelmed by cancer survivorship issues and the 'how to' with...
Forum: Portugal
Dec 22nd 2023, 7:06 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 1,116
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Dentist in Tavira

I had a dental emergency one time when staying in Tavira/Santa Luzia and went to Dental Fusion onTravessa Ingmar Bergman, 8800-744 Tavira but their appointment schedule meant a wait of a day or two...
Forum: Portugal
Aug 28th 2023, 11:43 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 11,289
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: New E6 visa

So presumably, in order to meet the visa requirements, one needs health insurance in place for a year (even if only planning a six month stay) in spite of having a GHIC card and with the requisite...
Forum: Portugal
Aug 19th 2023, 6:45 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,228
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: tourist season

Ha! Ha! The more we come the more we will want to come and enjoy the peace, beauty and routine and see folks who recognise us and take up where we left off last time - the Portuguese that is, for the...
Forum: Portugal
Jun 25th 2023, 6:54 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 4,902
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Living and working in portugal

This article in The Times from just over a year ago spells out the main reason why WORKING in Portugal offers the edge over working elsewhere these days, in certain circumstances.

"Over the past...
Forum: Portugal
Jun 21st 2023, 10:24 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,681
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Property Insurance

Reinsurance protects retail insurance carriers so they don't get 'blown away' (excuse the pun) by an accumulation of risk due to underwriting earthquake or hurricane coverage.
Forum: Portugal
Feb 14th 2023, 9:29 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 942
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Not so funny!

So next time-around next month when we re-enter via Funchal we have a prepared speech.
Forum: Portugal
Feb 14th 2023, 9:26 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 942
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Not so funny!

The way I thought it through he had two screens - one for Portugal and another for other - so that when I said that we left the EU in France and re-entered in Spain he eventually said "oh yes!"...
Forum: Portugal
Feb 14th 2023, 8:26 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 942
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Not so funny!

It somehow popped-up on his screen in a way that he must have misinterpreted it. This was before he actually looked at any stamps.
Forum: Portugal
Feb 13th 2023, 12:52 am
Replies: 11
Views: 942
Posted By Pistolpete2

Not so funny!

We left Faro Airport to fly back to the UK yesterday and at passport control, upon inspection, the staffer first asked if we were resident and then advised that we had been in Portugal for 154 days...
Forum: Portugal
Feb 7th 2023, 3:46 am
Replies: 43
Views: 3,807
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Post Brexit Reality Check - Portugal

Madeira
Forum: Portugal
Feb 1st 2023, 4:01 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,196
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Accountant/Tax Advisor - East Algarve

Thank you for that (All Finance Matters)! I see them!
Forum: Portugal
Jan 31st 2023, 9:23 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,196
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Accountant/Tax Advisor - East Algarve

We have been in Tavira for a week and though we have pondered moving from the UK many times now incl well before Brexit I have been put off by my tax issues. When last here I met a solicitor here in...
Forum: Portugal
Nov 7th 2021, 7:03 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,930
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Ginja

We have enjoyed Eduardino ginjinha near the Rossio in Lisbon - haven't seen it in the Algarve but you never know. When in the Algarve you should try the Aguardentes Medronho and Figo. Some landlords...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 6th 2021, 11:05 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,286
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Travel to England from Portugal - what is required NOW ?

https://www.gov.uk/provide-journey-contact-details-before-travel-uk
Forum: Portugal
Oct 6th 2021, 9:54 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,286
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Travel to England from Portugal - what is required NOW ?

As has been discussed, there are a number of covid testers who are either friends of the Government or are using the 'need' for covid testing to gather data for their own purposes and some of these...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 6th 2021, 9:37 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,286
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Travel to England from Portugal - what is required NOW ?

Our passports were stamped when we arrived in Porto on 27th June but the stamp needed ink so wasn't legible so I can only guess the SEF Police looked in the system - don't recall but they must have...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 6th 2021, 4:35 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,286
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Travel to England from Portugal - what is required NOW ?

I travelled on Easyjet from Madeira to Gatwick two weeks ago. ALL of the checking is done at check-in or in Madeira prior to departure - line by line cross-checking of details, so much so that the...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 17th 2021, 7:36 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 5,809
Posted By Pistolpete2

Re: Travel to UK

We will be good to go on a direct flight from (green) Funchal to Gatwick on Wednesday in spite of the fact that since we were vaccinated in Grenada that doesn't count for UK purposes.

The...
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