We show then the letter we had and they said we had to fill in a tax return for 2015. No we said, we don't earn enough and we were told we don't have to.
Ah, yes you do, they said, you sold your house in the Algarve and bought one here, so we need a tax return.
Okay, we need an accountant.
So off we toddled to Gabinete de Contribute something or other.
Cue them not having a clue what we were talking about - so they rang Fincances and then I spoke to them on the phone, as they wanted to make sure we understood exactly what we had to do.
We had to give them our fiscal numbers, they seemed to have no idea what to do - a big conference, with 4 of them
Most of it done too quickly for me, but I got the gist of it.They will send - either by e-mail or post - a password
For each of us In about 4 or 5 days. Then we go back in, with all the paperwork from the sale of the house and all the paperwork for the purchase of this house, plus bills for all work we've done.then they'll tell us we don't owe anything - as we only made 5,000€ and that's not enough to tax, over the 12 years we owned it.
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