Portugal’s State Budget for 2026 will introduce a number of changes in taxes approved by parliament and coming into force from January, 2026. First off, IRC tax has fallen by 1% to 19%. It had [...]
Revenues obtained by the Portuguese State from taxes in 2024 corresponding to 35.1% of the wealth produced in Portugal that year, revealing a fall in the share of taxes to GDP for the second year [...]
The new 10% IRS tax that Portugal’s government aims to apply to income from renting buildings will now include all rental contracts for rents within the so-called moderate values, regardless of [...]
Recent studies and house price statistics, both private and public, from Portugal and Brussels have noted that Portugal’s real estate sector has consistently beaten records regarding house [...]
What Portugal’s government is giving in tax cuts for companies and families in one hand, it is taking in indirect taxes with the other as tax revenues from VAT and other taxes will hit a maximum [...]
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 [...]
