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.
The form for the salary premium of 697 euros a year per bachelor's year and 1,500 euros per master's year has not opened since 2024, and the deadline in the rules has passed. Here is who qualifies, how much it pays and what is known now.
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.
The Tax Foundation's 2026 International Tax Competitiveness Index gives Portugal 59.6 points and 33rd place of 38 OECD countries. Corporate and cross-border rules rank near the bottom; individual, consumption and property taxes sit mid-table.
From 17 October, fuel stations must post how much less fuel tax and VAT drivers pay per litre than at the 2019 rates: 23.1 cents on petrol and 23.9 on diesel from Monday. Why that is not this week's discount, and what to do if the sign is missing.
