Portugal
Payroll, tax, and labor-law updates for Portugal.
How Portuguese Income Tax Is Calculated on a Payslip: IRS From Gross to Withholding
Portuguese income tax, the IRS (Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Singulares), is progressive, but the amount an employer withholds each month does not come from applying the progressive brackets directly. The…
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
What Workers in Portugal Are Entitled To: A Guide to Leave
Portuguese leave has a similar logic to Spain's: the large family entitlements are funded by Social Security rather than by the employer, while a set of shorter leaves are the employer's own cost. But Portugal has its…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
The Real Cost of a Portuguese Hire: Employer Contributions and the True Cost of Employment
The salary you agree with a worker in Portugal is not the full cost of employing them. On top of gross pay sit an employer social-security contribution, a mandatory work-accident insurance premium, and a payment…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Portugal Rebuilt Its Talent Tax Breaks: NHR, IFICI, and IRS Jovem
Portugal has spent more than a decade using the income-tax code as a talent-attraction tool, and in the last two years it tore up a big part of that toolkit and rebuilt it. If you run payroll for anyone employed in…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Remote Work Is Law in Portugal: The Right to Disconnect and What It Costs Payroll
In a lot of countries, "remote work policy" means whatever an employer decides to write in a handbook. In Portugal it means the Labour Code. Remote work, teletrabalho, is a detailed statutory regime, rewritten by Lei…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
