Portugal’s new centre-right government plans to reintroduce controversial tax breaks that enticed a wave of foreigners to the country, but it will ensure wealthy expatriate pensioners cannot benefit from the perk.
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, Portugal’s finance minister, told the Financial Times the government would unveil the plan on Thursday to “attract some people” to the country as part of a package of measures aimed at stimulating growth.
The tax breaks were introduced in 2009 to aid Portugal’s recovery from the financial crisis then scrapped last year by the previous Socialist government. It called them a “fiscal injustice” that it blamed for driving up house prices in one of the Eurozone’s lowest-income economies.