In the clearest application of government gloss, as international funders await Portugal’s re-entry into the grown-up world of self-sufficiency, the Economy Minister has heralded company tax rate cuts for 2015.
“There are great companies in Portugal and I very much believe in the ability of companies," said António Pires de Lima, adding that the Portuguese can be confident in the economic recovery of the country and that the descent of taxes should be one of the objectives of the Government from 2015.
The Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs said today that the suspension of parts of the Finanças website is to help people file their tax returns online and on time before the April 30th deadline.
The number of domestic properties sold in Portugal increased in the first quarter of 2014 with foreign buyers representing 14% of the total, according to the chairman of the Association of Professionals and Real Estate Companies of Portugal (APEMIP).
After seven years of desperately falling property prices in Spain, confidence has returned to foreign investors who are finally buying some prime real estate.
Britain's long-term unemployed are now obliged to clock in at a Job Centre every day and undertake training or volunteer work in order to keep their benefits.
People buying houses in the UK are said to be paying nearly 97% of the seller’s asking price.
The controversial helipad on the island of Culatra was used this morning for the first time.
ALMARGEM believes that the government's support of Cidade Lacustre, Vilamoura, has in effect authorised the destruction of farmland, “one of the biggest and best areas of agricultural land in the Algarve" and is lodging a complaint at the European Commission.
