Moving guides
From Portugal to Andorra
What changes in tax when you move from Portugal to Andorra: what you pay today, what you would pay there and the rules Portugal applies when you leave.
What you would save
With €150,000 a year in dividends or foreign income, compared as a genuine resident of each country.
Leaving Portugal
- More than 183 days in any 12-month period. You are resident if you spend more than 183 days in Portugal, consecutive or not, in any 12-month period starting or ending in the tax year.
- Habitual residence. With fewer days, you are still resident if at any time in that 12-month period you have a home in Portugal in conditions suggesting you intend to keep and use it as your habitual residence.
- Part-year residence. Since 2015 residence normally starts on the first day of stay and ends on the last day, so a year can be split into resident and non-resident periods, with some exceptions.
Rules that can follow you after leaving
- Portuguese nationals moving to a blacklisted territory stay resident 4 more years. Portuguese nationals who move tax residence to a territory on the government blacklist remain Portuguese residents in the year of the move and the four following years, unless they prove valid reasons such as temporary work.
Exit tax in Portugal
No general exit tax for individuals
Leaving Portugal does not trigger tax on unrealised gains on ordinary shares or property. Specific exceptions: gains previously deferred on tax-neutral share exchanges or on transferring a sole-trader business into a company can become taxable on loss of residence, and loss of residence is treated as a disposal of crypto-assets (since 2023).
Arriving in Andorra
Personal income: 10% · Company tax: 10%
Active residency (start a company or work) or passive residency (investment of about €600,000).
Active: more than 183 days. Passive: at least 90 days.
Income tax 0% up to €24,000 and 10% at most. Savings income at 10% after €3,000 exempt. Expensive housing and a mandatory deposit.
Living there
Steps to residency
- 8 weeksIncorporate company and obtain foreign investment authorisation
- 4 weeksSign lease or buy home and register with the comu
- 8 weeksSubmit active (self-employed) or passive residence application to Immigration
- 2 weeksRegister with CASS social security and tax office
About 22 weeks in total
Official websites: Tax authority · Immigration
Approximate figures that change often; check them before deciding.