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Portugal

Portugal has three tax regions: the mainland and the two autonomous regions, Madeira and the Azores, which have lower rates.

Tax regionCovers
PTPortuguese Mainland
PT-MAMadeira
PT-ACAzores

Portugal's three tax regions have different rates. The Standard group is 23 % on the mainland (PT), 22 % in Madeira (PT-MA) and 16 % in the Azores (PT-AC).

The rates below are what the Tax Rules API returns for Portugal on 2026-10-13. The API is always the current answer: GET /tax-rules?countryCode=PT.

Tax region PT — Portuguese Mainland​

Taxable groupRateApplies fromFiscal tax group
Standard23 %2018-04-23STANDARD
Reduced13 %2018-04-23INTERMEDIATE
ReducedLow6 %2018-04-23REDUCED
Zero0 %2018-04-23EXEMPT
NonTax0 %2018-01-01NS

Tax region PT-MA — Madeira​

Taxable groupRateApplies fromFiscal tax group
Standard22 %2018-04-23STANDARD
Reduced12 %2018-04-23INTERMEDIATE
ReducedLow4 %2024-10-01REDUCED
Zero0 %2018-04-23EXEMPT
NonTax0 %2018-01-01NS

Earlier rates, still returned with isActive=false and in the message, for sales dated before the change:

  • ReducedLow: 5 % from 2018-04-23

Tax region PT-AC — Azores​

Taxable groupRateApplies fromFiscal tax group
Standard16 %2018-05-16STANDARD
Reduced9 %2018-05-16INTERMEDIATE
ReducedLow4 %2018-05-16REDUCED
Zero0 %2018-05-16EXEMPT
NonTax0 %2018-01-01NS

Tax-exempt region​

Every region above also has a tax-exempt twin (PT-TE, PT-MA-TE, PT-AC-TE) with the same taxable groups at 0 %.