The Botija Solidária covers up to two gas bottles a month for households on the social electricity tariff or a minimum social benefit. Road hauliers and bus companies can now recover up to 70 percent of the fuel increase.
Protesters marched on the prime minister's house in Espinho over fuel prices on Saturday. The night before, a portaria had already cut the fuel tax again, as it has done every week since 16 March, by exactly the extra VAT the higher price brings in.
Diesel and petrol should hold broadly steady over the week of 29 June to 5 July after a sharp fall the week before, with 95-octane petrol near €1.877 a litre and diesel around €1.769. The government's trimmed ISP discount softened the earlier drop.
The Council of Ministers approved a CIVA rework on 11 June 2026 that shifts the VAT liquidation moment on combustíveis upstream to the entrepôt aduaneiro entry gateway — closing the missing-trader gap, alongside a paired SME capital-markets simplification package.
The Ministry of Finance retuned the extraordinary ISP rebate on 5 June: diesel picks up 0.765 cents against a four-cent forecast climb, gasoline gives back 0.021 cents — leaving cumulative discounts at €51.45 and €41.97 per 1,000 litres for the 9 June pump week.
Lisbon trims the ISP discount on diesel by 1.9 cents and gasoline by 1.8 cents for the week starting Monday 1 June 2026 — fiscal support falls to €43.80 per 1,000 litres on diesel and €42.18 on gasoline as Brent slides below $100 and the sector reads a net 10-cent pump drop.
Portugal's fuel-retailer association is signalling a 5 to 6 cêntimos per litre cut to diesel pump prices for the week starting 12 May, with simple gasoline expected to hold flat. The forecast tracks the Brent benchmark, which has dropped below $100...
