Latest Chamber News

London 14^th September 2017

Further Moving to Portugal seminars to take place in London on Monday 23^rd October

On Monday 23rd October 2017 in central London, the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in the UK is organising the 3rd edition of our popular "Moving to Portugal" seminars.

These will take place in the Lisbon Suite at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel & Spa, 354 Queenstown Road, London SW11 8AE. The nearest Tube station is Sloane Square which is approx. 10 minutes’ walk from the hotel. The number 137 and 452 buses stop outside the hotel.

The Moving to Portugal seminars are designed to answer all the questions you may have about how to organise your move to Portugal, whether you intend to run your business from there, retire there or simply spend several months a year there to escape the English climate.

London, 11th August 2017

Next edition of the "Business in Portuguese" conference, 31^st October 2017, Bloomberg, London EC2

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce is organising the third edition of the conference Business in Portuguese on the 31^stOctober 2017 at Bloomberg Auditorium at Bloomberg’s European HQ in London at Finsbury Sq, EC2.

Video of the 2016 Business in Portuguese conference.

Portuguese-speaking countries across the globe cover a land mass the size of Canada and contain over 290 million people. The investment opportunities in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique, in particular, are outstanding. Portugal is the natural bridge to these markets. Present at the conference will be CEOs with particular expertise in Lusophone markets, who will discuss financing businesses in Portuguese-speaking countries and how they are adapting their investments to fit their environmental, sustainability and good governance (ESG) programmes.

London 13th July 2017

Mod 21-RFI for the Portuguese Tax Authorities

Are you selling products or services to a Portuguese company, and they are asking you to fill out the Mod 21-RFI before they can pay you the full amount they owe you?

This is because the Portuguese tax authorities can insist Portuguese companies withhold 25% of the payment, when they paying invoices submitted by British companies who have sold them goods or services.

To avoid this retention, the Portuguese tax authorities need this Mod 21 document in order to confirm that the British company is based in the UK and pays its taxes in the UK.

London, 10th July 2017

Portuguese Chamber Annual Golf Tournament at the Old Course Vilamoura

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in the UK held its annual Algarve Golf Tournament at the prestigious Old Course in Vilamoura on the 6th July 2017.

The Chamber welcomed 32 players to the golf tournament, among them Chamber members from the Conrad Algarve Hotel, AFPOP, Blevins Franks, and Boavista Golf and Spa Resort.

London, 3rd July 2017

Portuguese Chamber Of Commerce in the UK elects new Chairman

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in the UK elected their new Chairman on 29^th June 2017, to replace the outgoing Chairman Mr Bernardo Ivo Cruz.

Our new Chairman is Mr Jorge de Abreu, from the leading Portuguese law firm Abreu & Marques e Associados who are long standing Corporate members of the Chamber.