Portugal Your business
Start your business in Portugal: Joinery business
You make or fit furniture, doors and interior joinery in Portugal. Explain whether you need a workshop, a fitting operation or both: machinery, stock and supply lead times create very different setups.
Let’s discuss your project
A few details to understand your business and the next step.
Bertrand Jayol receives your enquiry for an initial assessment. Referral to the partner is considered with your agreement. Privacy
01 / Your business
How you earn shapes the questions to ask
- Measuring and producing bespoke joinery.
- Fitting purchased doors, wardrobes and components.
- Repairing and adapting existing woodwork.
Connect workshop work to ordering and installation
Break a bespoke order into survey, drawing approval, purchasing, production, delivery and installation. Decide how measurement errors and changes after approval are handled. Panels and production tie up cash before handover, so connect customer deposits to these stages.
Assess installation works against the applicable IMPIC titles. Also check whether the proposed premises suit the machinery with the competent bodies. Gather a workshop layout, extraction and handling requirements and a sample order. A manufacturing workshop and an administrative registered office should not be treated as the same premises requirement.
02 / Next steps for your project
Questions to prepare your application
- Will you manufacture or purchase the items you fit?
- Who approves drawings and dimensions before ordering?
- What premises will house machinery and materials?
Portugal
Before you incorporate
Registering as self-employed and incorporating a company are different routes. The choice depends on how your business actually operates. A Portuguese company alone does not determine your tax residence or the treatment of every source of income.
Information to gather
- Your country of residence and where you actually work.
- A description of the services or products you sell.
- Whether your customers are businesses or individuals, and their countries.
- Any shareholders, existing business structure and your planned timing.
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