Tax

The Portuguese government is to propose giving selective tax sweeteners to companies which up staff salaries. The move would link in with measures contemplated in the Wages and Competitiveness [...]

The president of Euronext Lisbon Isabel Ucha has argued that the government should focus on supporting people and companies that are actually in “genuine difficulty”. The lady who heads the [...]

Portugal’s Public Ministry has made the media, hotels and river cruise tycoon Mário Ferreira a legal suspect in the Operation Ferry case over the sale of the ship Atlântida. The case involves [...]

The Portuguese tax authorities have taken 20,000 debtors off its black list over the past two years, but nevertheless, the government is still owed a staggering €3.3Bn in unpaid taxes. The list [...]

Portugal’s new finance minister and ex-mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, delivered the government’s State Budget for 2022 at the end of last week. The two new main takeaways are that because of [...]

The Portuguese national carrier TAP lost a 5% share in passengers at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport in the last quarter of 2021 like-for-like on 2020. This is according to the quarterly [...]

In a bold election pledge, the conservative PSD party says it will slash business tax to as little as 17% by 2025. The party led by Rui Rio has also promised a total reduction by €800 million on [...]

The leader of Portugal’s centre-right PSD party said this weekend that it is unacceptable that the country’s middle class is being “smothered by taxes”. Rui Rio made the comments in the closing [...]

The Portuguese Government is to allow companies in certain sectors in tax arrears because of Covid-19 to continue paying them off in instalments. Companies in the restaurant and hospitality [...]

The Portuguese parliament gave the green light on Friday for the tax authorities to allow tax payers to pay into a current account. It means that tax payers who have tax debts (for example, [...]