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I don't think there is a residency requirements for Category F? Once every 2 years should do it.

A non-dom swiss company maybe?

Don't they ask for entry/exit dates or something like that? Or even if they look you up in the system won't they see EU wide travel etc?

GV only covers the residency requirements for citizenship, the two other important factors are "ties to Portugal" and basic fluency of Portuguese.

PSI classification depends on the type of business activity, trading activities like online business are generally not considered PSI. Corporate tax residency and CFC rules make offshore structures pretty useless for Australian tax residents.

German tax office sounds as bad as Australia's. Outdated, silly subjective tests to determining tax residency.

@cypriotnondom does the Malta GRP program be of some use here? IIRC, as long as you don't spend more than 183 days in any one country you will get a tax resident certificate in Malta

Ease of getting citizenship. Cyprus is probably better for taxes and the non-fast track version of Category F costs a lot less than 300k euro option

Yep, some of the first GV holders have gotten their citizenship this way

It indeed is and is my first option but I don't have enough free capital to make it work at this stage so just looking at options.

Thanks all for the quick responses. If one has to reside continuously for the last 1 year, does that mean the 4 years before that can be reduced stay requirements? From what I've researched, Malta is a tough nut to crack for citizenship through Naturalization. I believe Bulgaria doesn't allow...

I think there is a "charge" for non-dom residents after a few years. If you are non-dom would the CFC rules still kick in?

Don't have enough free capital for golden visas so looking at alternatives that don't have heavy minimum stay requirements and leads to EU citizenship down the road. Will continue to stay in Australia for the foreseeable future for various reasons. Anyone been through the Category F process? Can...

@FixieHartmann where is your current tax residency? I've heard of some Aussie residents trying this but caught out by draconian Australian tax residency rules.

Thanks Battura, I believe NHR still taxes capital gains from equity or so the Accountant has said. Really trying to avoid DTA pathway as Australia doesn't have one with Portugal and have to rely on general OECD rules I am curious though, if owning/renting a property is all that is required to...