IN138 - The Dixcart Business Centre Madeira

At the beginning of September 2006 Dixcart opened a business centre in Madeira offering serviced and virtual office facilities. Dixcart also provides serviced and virtual offices in the UK and the Isle of Man, as well as serviced office facilities in Guernsey and Geneva in Switzerland.

The Business Centre in Madeira

The newly established Dixcart Business Centre in Madeira is located close to the major hotels in the central commercial area of Funchal, the capital of the island. Organisations with commercially active companies in the Madeira International Business Centre can operate from these high quality offices, establishing a physical presence on the island.

The facilities provide firms with a substantive presence in Madeira, avoiding excessive set-up costs whilst also offering access to professional legal and accounting services and support.

Madeira’s position as an integral part of Portugal, and therefore a full member of the European Union, makes activity from within the International Business Centre an extremely attractive proposition. Companies based in Madeira can also enjoy the many tax exemptions granted to businesses under the Madeira Free Trade Zone legislation. These include exemption from capital gains tax, investment income tax, and withholding tax.

Services Provided

Dixcart has operated in Madeira for almost twenty years, with a reputation for providing high quality professional services to clients. Our serviced business facilities are supported with extensive professional expertise, including accounting, HR, legal services and an in-house team of IT specialists.

Serviced business offices and workstations are available and a comprehensive range of administrative support services can also be provided, including reception and secretarial services and the use of meeting rooms for internal or client meetings.

Serviced Office Facilities

The Dixcart Business Centre offers a modern, efficient work environment.

Services and facilities provided include:

• Fully furnished offices
• Inclusion of standard office operating costs (eg heating, lighting, insurance etc)
• Advanced IT and telecoms supported by CAT5 cabling
• Comprehensive reception facilities from our modern reception area
• Mail and fax handling (incoming and outgoing)
• Kitchen facilities - coffee, tea, chilled water etc.
• Cleaning of common areas and offices
• 24 hour security, using a monitored CCTV system

Clients can feature individual company identification plaques in the reception area and, in the event that an office is not manned every day, Dixcart can provide the following facilities:

• Personalised telephone answering and call forwarding
• Mail forwarding
• Fax and email handling

Additional Services

Accounting Services
Day to day accounting support can be provided by Dixcart as well as tax compliance and VAT returns. All accounting support is charged on a time occupied basis, billed quarterly in arrears.

Legal Services
Dixcart employs a number of lawyers with various areas of expertise. Legal support services are available to assist clients in establishing correct structures for their operations. Dixcart also provides legal assistance for commercial activities as and when required. All legal support is charged on a time occupied basis, billed quarterly in arrears.

Human Resources
Through its Human Resources department, Dixcart can source appropriate staff for most types of business. Client employees can also be supported by in-house professionals at Dixcart, as and when appropriate.
The Human Resources department at Dixcart also processes company payrolls, submits relevant statutory returns and deals with all appropriate administrative requirements.

IT Support
Dixcart has an established Data Centre operating in Madeira and is registered as an Internet Service Provider in Portugal.

The Dixcartnet Data Centre is fully equipped to provide, maintain and support IT systems for firms in the Dixcart Business Centre. We can also register your company domain name in Portugal ie. CompanyName.pt. Email addresses can then be configured in Madeira using the appropriate domain name. We can also provide additional IT related services including server facilities, web page design, e-commerce solutions and hosting services.

Please visit the Dixcart Data Centre website at: www.dixcartnet.pt

Virtual Offices
As described in Information Note 139, Dixcart can provide virtual office facilities in Madeira and in other locations.

Additional information about this service can be found at the Dixcart Virtual Offices website: www.dixcartvirtualoffices.com

Contact Us

If you require any further information about serviced office facilities in Madeira, please contact Maria João (maria.joao@dbc.pt), your usual Dixcart contact, or visit our website at www.dixcartbc.pt