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Portugal maintains a list of jurisdictions treated as having clearly more favourable tax regimes. Inclusion on this list triggers penalty provisions across six tax codes. The list was approved in [...]

On 25 June 2026 the Council of Ministers approved a government bill seeking authorisation to rewrite the criteria that place a jurisdiction on Portugal’s list of privileged tax regimes. The [...]

Law no. 5-A/2026, of 28 January, came into force on 27 July 2026. For the first time, Portugal regulates interest representation before public entities and creates a mandatory register for those [...]

The Council of the EU adopted its 21st package of sanctions against Russia on 23 July 2026. It contains 218 listings, 48 individuals and 170 entities, the most in any package for four years. The [...]

GFDL Advogados is pleased to share that our team has authored the Portugal chapter of the Law Over Borders: Cryptoassets Law Guide, published by the Global Legal Post. The guide maps how [...]

The 2026 Personal Income Tax (PIT) filing season in Portugal is approaching. Individuals who earned income during the 2025 tax year should assess their reporting obligations in light of their tax [...]

GFDL Advogados participated in the 2nd UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats) Biennial Global Mobility Forum, held in Lisbon under the theme “Interdisciplinary Compliance and Planning in an Age [...]

GFDL Advogados has contributed to Lexing Insights n°45 – Data Protection Cases Around the World in 2025: The Year in Review, a global publication by the Lexing® Network analysing the most [...]

Portugal has reinforced its legal framework for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing in the crypto-asset sector with the publication of Law No. 70/2025 of 22 December. The [...]

For a decade, Portugal maintained one of Europe’s most accessible and outward-looking nationality regimes. Starting in the mid-2010s, the country embraced a legal philosophy designed to reconnect [...]