How do I access to the website Portal das Finanças? There are two ways for accessing to the website Portal das Finanças: A) Using the password authentication system or B) Via Citizen’s Card or Mobile Digital Key - This and other questions find the answers /replies here

If you are abroad or when you live in a foreign country, you have two options to pay your Portuguese taxes: direct debit or bank transfer.

Real estate transactions in Portugal increased 13.5% to 226,617 in 2017 compared to the previous year, and the associated investment rose 33.5% to 24.3 billion euros, to highs since 2008, data released today 06 / 11/18 from the Association of Professionals and Real Estate Mediation Companies - APEMIP. According to APEMIP "The total amount and value of real estate transactions in Portugal in 2017 is the highest value since 2008, when 241,040 properties were sold in the amount of 24.4 billion euros. From that year until 2012, the sector registered successive decreases, starting to recover in 2013. With regard to transaction values, it was the Lisbon Metropolitan Area that concentrated the highest investment value (more than 12 billion euros , 49.8% of the total), followed by the North region (with 4.9 billion euros or 20.3%) and Algarve (with 2.9 billion euros or 11.9%).

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AMAL approves bases for the introduction of a tourist tax in the Algarve, in the value of 1.5 euros, from March to October, and only in the first seven days of stay ... Children up to 12 years old are exempt from payment. Each municipality must now approve, at the municipal assembly, its tourist tax regulation, which, according to AMAL's proposal, should come into force, from the 1st of March 2019.