Olá!
My name is Kemal Reza, I am an Indonesian currently (still) living in my home country. I do web design for a living and have been working as an independent contractor over the internet for the past 1 year. Additionally, I have a total of 6 years experiences working in web development industry.
Lately I have been thinking of relocating myself (and my wife and my son) to Portugal and based myself there as an independent contractor accepting (of course!) web design/development projects from around the world.
So, the reason I tell all those stories about my background is because I need to gather suggestions and advices, particularly from all of you that actually lives in Portugal, so that I have enough information on whether I will go on with my plan to relocate myself to Portugal. These questions are:
> Is it hard to arrange permits/visas/formalities needed to be able to operate as an independent worker in Portugal? Has anyone have the experiences on arranging these sort of formalities being a non-EU citizens? how did it go for you? any documentations that I needed to secured first maybe from Portuguese authorities?
> How much is approximately the tax calculations for independent worker?
> How much I have to contribute to social security every month? Is my family (my wife and one son) will also able to enjoy the benefits of my contributions?
> I know that now is the very difficult economic situation in Portugal, so I am wondering if this will be a good time for me to actually move there? What do you all think about this? Please also note that I don't want to come to Portugal only to get benefits from state etc etc., in contrary I don't have any problem to contribute how much (relative to how much my revenues are from my web business) I will be needed to contribute to the state/social security/taxes etc. as long as I can see my son is able to attend public school and we can get healthcare if we are sick (and only if we are sick!). So with that in mind, do you think I am crazy to plan this relocation to Portugal? or maybe its actually a good idea?
Well, thats basically all the questions that I have in mind. I hope that anyone will be kindly enough to try to answer it
Have a good day to all of you!
Obrigado!
My name is Kemal Reza, I am an Indonesian currently (still) living in my home country. I do web design for a living and have been working as an independent contractor over the internet for the past 1 year. Additionally, I have a total of 6 years experiences working in web development industry.
Lately I have been thinking of relocating myself (and my wife and my son) to Portugal and based myself there as an independent contractor accepting (of course!) web design/development projects from around the world.
So, the reason I tell all those stories about my background is because I need to gather suggestions and advices, particularly from all of you that actually lives in Portugal, so that I have enough information on whether I will go on with my plan to relocate myself to Portugal. These questions are:
> Is it hard to arrange permits/visas/formalities needed to be able to operate as an independent worker in Portugal? Has anyone have the experiences on arranging these sort of formalities being a non-EU citizens? how did it go for you? any documentations that I needed to secured first maybe from Portuguese authorities?
> How much is approximately the tax calculations for independent worker?
> How much I have to contribute to social security every month? Is my family (my wife and one son) will also able to enjoy the benefits of my contributions?
> I know that now is the very difficult economic situation in Portugal, so I am wondering if this will be a good time for me to actually move there? What do you all think about this? Please also note that I don't want to come to Portugal only to get benefits from state etc etc., in contrary I don't have any problem to contribute how much (relative to how much my revenues are from my web business) I will be needed to contribute to the state/social security/taxes etc. as long as I can see my son is able to attend public school and we can get healthcare if we are sick (and only if we are sick!). So with that in mind, do you think I am crazy to plan this relocation to Portugal? or maybe its actually a good idea?
Well, thats basically all the questions that I have in mind. I hope that anyone will be kindly enough to try to answer it
Have a good day to all of you!
Obrigado!