Somerset families looking south past France and Spain often find their way to rural Portugal — the deep quiet of the Alentejo plains, the inland Algarve where the white villages thin out into hill country, the Silver Coast working towns, the centro region around Coimbra and into the granite north. The move tends to be considered, slow, and weighted toward the country property rather than the city apartment.
We coordinate the corridor jointly with UK Portugal Removals where the move suits that single-corridor specialist register — typically when the move is wholly Portugal-focused and the customer is already in conversation with them. Where the Somerset angle leads — established rural household, considered move, mixed UK-and-Portugal-property lifecycle — we run the move directly and the customs side is handled by us.
Portuguese customs is procedurally similar to French and Spanish. We file the UK-side ToR1 with HMRC and the Portuguese-side declaration and inventory with the Autoridade Tributária (AT) on your behalf. You provide the NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal — required for any meaningful Portuguese administrative step), residency-evidence pack, and confirmed Portuguese address. The Portuguese ToR (mudança de residência) framework cleanly relieves duty and import-VAT on household goods owned for at least six months by the principal mover.