João Valadas Coriel

Taken from: A New Place to Call Home Residency options and implications for high net worth individualsVirtual Round Table Series Private Client Working Group 2017 Portugal offers investors, pensioners and qualified professionals the ‘Non Habitual Tax Resident’ (NHTR) status which grants full exemption on most classes of foreign sourced income like pensions, dividends, interests and…

Taken from International Asset Protection Planning: The debtor’s dilemma – planning for and protecting against future judgmentsVirtual Round Table Series, December 2016: Private Client Working Group Bearer shares and assets held within a Portuguese limited liability company are, in principle, shielded from a judgment against an individual. If the shares are nominative, the creditor might…

Taken from International Asset Protection Planning: The debtor’s dilemma – planning for and protecting against future judgmentsVirtual Round Table Series, December 2016: Private Client Working Group Asset protection trusts (APTs) are effective if a debtor is entering into a risky business transaction and wants to protect existing assets from a possible future debtor judgment, but…

Taken from International Asset Protection Planning: The debtor’s dilemma – planning for and protecting against future judgmentsVirtual Round Table Series, December 2016: Private Client Working Group If only one spouse is on the title of the judgment debt, that spouse is the only one responsible for the debt incurred. However, if individual assets are not…

Taken from International Asset Protection Planning: The debtor’s dilemma – planning for and protecting against future judgmentsVirtual Round Table Series, December 2016: Private Client Working Group Portugal is halfway between the UK and Florida in its position on asset protection. Both the Portuguese Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights prohibit imprisonment by reason…

As from May 25th a new set of rules on data protection (General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR) will take effect across the EU, involving individuals, companies, administrations and other organizations to the same extent. This new European framework aims to provide greater protection of individual rights and new opportunities for business by clarifying and modernizing…

João Valadas Coriel of Valadas Coriel & Associados was a headline sponsor of the IR Dealmakers conference in his home city of Lisbon (February 2018).  To view the video of Joao filmed during the conference in full please use the following link:  http://bit.ly/2HaZol2

If you are reading this text it is most likely because we have met at a conference and you somehow have an interest in Portugal. In some cases someone has passed along this brochure or you are just curious. Portugal is one of the best small countries few people know about or one of the…

‘He likes to employ people with compassion and experience who value a good work-life balance; not surprisingly then, the majority of his lawyers are women. The testosterone-fuelled arena of big law is anathema to João.’ João Valadas Coriel, Founder and Managing Partner – Valadas, Coriel & Associados João Valadas Coriel is an experienced trial lawyer,…

Jersey, Isle of Man and Uruguay are out of the OECD Blacklist The low tax jurisdictions of jersey, Isle of Man and Uruguay have been found compliant by the OECD and, therefore, have been removed from the OECD blacklist of harmful tax havens or offshore jurisdictions offering no guarantees of exchange of information and financial…

Portuguese parliament has voted the increase of “derrama” by 2% for companies with profits above 35 million euros. Basic corporate tax rate is 21%, but “derrama” is an addition that can now go up to 9%, thus making the top Portuguese corporate tax rate an uncompetitive 30%. This hike was forced by the parliamentary extreme…

Portuguese law-makers are becoming concerned by the growing diversion of apartments and houses from regular rental to short-term leases managed by Airbnb and similar services. One of the reasons is the tax advantages granted to short-term leases. The 2017 budget stipulates that only 35 per cent of touristic or short-term leases are subject to taxation,…