The Conselho Económico e Social's advisory opinion on the 2027 budget favours structural pension increases over one-off supplements, says the IRS bracket update falls short of 4.5 percent pay rises, and wants a list of empty public buildings published by March.
The Council of Ministers approved the decree-law cutting IRS rates on the first six brackets by 0.3 to 0.5 points for all of 2026. It still needs the President's signature. November withholding is halved; the rest is settled in the 2027 return.
The vets' professional order delivers a petition to parliament on Thursday asking for VAT on pet care to fall from 23 to 6 percent. Here is what owners pay now, the signature bar for a plenary debate, and the IRS deduction you can already claim.
The CDS-PP measure raises the deduction for each child from the third, with half the increase in 2027 and all of it in 2028. What families deduct now, what the bill promised, and what changes for lower-income households.
A Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study finds car-owning lower-middle earners carry the heaviest fuel-tax load relative to income, counts 781 tax breaks with 39 percent never costed, and says IRS is less progressive than it looks.
For salaries and pensions paid in November, only half the usual IRS will be withheld, including on a Christmas bonus paid that month. The mainland-only rule passes on this year's rate cut, but it may mean a smaller refund in 2027.
The 2026 budget added bookshops, theatre, music, dance, venues, libraries, museums and monuments to the IRS invoice deduction. It is worth 15 percent of the VAT, within a 250 euro household cap, and only if the invoice carries your NIF.
