Tax

Portugal’s Finances minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento pledged a 3.6% increase for employees when he unveiled the government’s outline State Budget for 2026 on Thursday. And the minister pledged a [...]

IRS brackets and respective tax hikes must be updated in 2026 by at least 3.51%, according to a formula that combines productivity and inflation, published in an ordinance this Friday in the [...]

As the government supported by populist party Chega is preparing to restrict immigration, a study has shown that reducing immigration to ‘zero’ would mean putting up taxes by 7.9% in Portugal to [...]

The President of Portugal’s Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII) has warned that the government ’s decision to put up property transfer taxes for non-residents could send [...]

Despite warnings that Portugal risks returning to running an annual budget deficit, its Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, has two options to ensure that the government makes a [...]

The Business Roundtable Portugal association (BRP), which brings together 142 business leaders, has sent an open letter to the government calling for the scrapping of the first five IRS tax [...]

Portugal’s government has approved reducing VAT on construction to 6% and the creation of Build to Rent contracts with tax benefits. However, the government will put up property transfer tax or [...]

Sovos, a multinational advisory specialised in tex compliance, e-invoicing and tax reporting, has chosen Lisbon as its main European hub. The company’s Managing Director Europe, Rui Fontoura says [...]

IRC tax on small and medium companies and companies of average capitalisation, which is currently being discussed in parliament, should fall to 15% on the first €100,000 of taxable revenues and [...]

The latest survey from the Deloitte Tax Observatory reveals that Portugal’s companies are more worried about the geopolitical situation and the effects of US tariffs than Portugal’s tax burden as [...]