PORTUGUESE VAT
Your readers should be very wary about bringing their boats to Portugal if they come from a country outside the EU. I am a Portuguese resident and the half owner of a 62ft boat registered in New Zealand and owned by a NZ company, which has spent the last two winters moored in Vilamoura.
I recently received a letter from Portuguese customs asking for all the boat’s paperwork, which I supplied, including the valid European VAT certificate. I then received a report saying that because we had allegedly been