UK budget delivers triple tax whammy for high earners
By BILL BLEVINS features@algarveresident.com Bill Blevins is the Managing Director of Blevins Franks. He has specialised in expatriate investment and tax planning for over 35 years. He has written books
Grandiose and deeply spiritual
By PAULO SILVESTRE features@algarveresident.com In this travel feature, Paulo Silvestre takes readers on a guided tour of the best places to visit in Portugal. Paulo provides inside information and useful
A city full of history and sightings
By PAULO SILVESTRE features@algarveresident.com In this travel feature, Paulo Silvestre takes readers on a guided tour of the best places to visit in Portugal. Paulo provides inside information and useful
Keeping up with the times
By SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 23 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for the Algarve Resident’s
Viva Las Vegas – Part Two
By SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 23 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for the Algarve Resident’s
Waiter, there is a snake in my broccoli!
A criminal investigation has been opened after a severed snake head was found among broccoli by a client at US restaurant chain, T.G.I Friday in New York. It is believed
Sex warning
A park near Amsterdam has unveiled information signs pointing out spots where officials say people have casual sex, so visitors are not taken by surprise. A municipal spokeswoman said that
How to survive a social event
Think how bored you may find yourself at certain social events and functions; now multiply this infinitely many times and think how your child will feel. Boredom tends to make
I have joined a gym …
By PAUL MCKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
UK Budget 2009
By JOHN WESTWOOD features@algarveresident.com John Westwood is the Managing Director of Blacktower Financial Management Group. The Chancellor announced major changes to tax relief on pension contributions and increases in income