NEW NHR-eligible professional occupations LIST from 1st January 2020
26 July 2019
On 23rd July 2019 the Portuguese Government adopted a change to the list of "High Value-Added Professional Activities" eligible to tax benefits applicable to employment and business income under the Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) tax regime.
The new list will fully replace the current one on 1st January 2020. From now on and until then, new applications for the relevant NHR-status benefits may invoke either list.
A comparison of the current list and the new one can be found on this page
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