Moving to Portugal
PROHIBITED AND RESTRICED GOODS
Firearms, ammunition, drugs, alcoholic beverages, foodstuff.
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
From Canada:
The Portuguese consulate general’s requirements: (438 University Avenue, Toronto Ontario - (416) 217-0966)
If you wish to cancel your Canadian residency and return to Portugal permanently, you can aply for Portuguese Customs tax exemptions on your own car, motorcycle or boat, by presenting at this Consulate:
- Your Income Tax of last 2 years
- Yorr vehicle booklet
- your Canadian driving/sailing/motoring license
- Documentation proving you owned the vehicle/boat for at least the last 6 months prior to the shipping date.
- Vehicle serch (Confirmation letter) which you can obtain at: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/issoff.htm
- Statement of the intended date of your return, permanently, to Portugal.
- Address and Phone number in Portugal where you can be personally contacted by the Portuguese Customs.
- Shipment of personal effects.
If you wish to cancel your residency in Canada and permanently return to Portugal, you can apply for a Portuguese Customs tax exemption on your personal belongings. For this you are required to present to the Consulate:
- Portuguese passport (if you are married please add also your wife?s or husband?s passport)
- Luggage list: item listing all the articles and specifying quantities. (Only used household articles are allowed. Electrical items must be used and furthermore, identified according to the brand, model and serial number.)
- Declaration with your complete identification, mentioning the date you became a landed immigrant in Canada, date of your intended definitive return, as well as your complete address and phone number in Portugal where you can be personally contacted by the Portuguese Customs.
General
1- Certificate of Residence
"Residence certificate" issued by the nearest Portuguese consulate confirming that he has resided in the country of origin at least during the last twelve months, prior to client's departure to Portugal.
It is understood to be the normal residence of a person where same lives for a period of at least 185 days of a civil year, in consequence of his or her professional life or, in a case of a non professional life, in consequence of the bond between the person and the place where he or she lives.
For the purposes of the automobile tax exemption (in the case of importing an automobile to Portugal), it is by law required that a person lives and works abroad for at least 24 consecutive months.
2- Baggage Certificate ("Certificado de bagagem")
All Portuguese citizens who work and reside outside of the European Community for at least the period of one year, when returning to Portugal in a definitive basis, are entitled to import their household effects with exemptions on import duties and Iva (V.A.T) exemptions.
Household effects are interpreted as household goods belonging to the person and his or her family, such as:
household furniture and household belongings;
bicycles and motorbikes (up to 50 cc), trailers, camping caravans, leisure boats and tourism airplanes that do not translate into, either by its nature or by its quantity, any relationship to commercial use;
domestic animals and saddle animals;
all mechanic portable instruments that are of personal or professional use by its owner;
Rules to be observed: items are not to have benefited from any exemption when purchased and have to be owned for at least a period of six months prior to importation in to Portugal.
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