The VAT regime has been changed in Portugal following the 2015 budget. The major changes are:

  • Fees from exhibitions to be included in the base for the VAT calculation of advertising services.
  • The VAT exemptions on goods in circulation have been restricted to assets only.
  • The exemption of VAT has been withdrawn from medical and related health and cleaning services and such services are now taxable and subject to the reduced VAT rate.
  • The process of reversal of output VAT declared on debts that subsequently become bad debts has been modified.