When is the IFICI registration deadline?
15 January of the year after you become tax resident in Portugal. Your residency date sets the registration deadline. Check before you move, not after.
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How the IFICI deadline works
The day you become tax resident starts the clock
The date you become tax resident sets the deadline to register for IFICI, so the order of your move matters as much as the regime you pick.
Register by 15 January of the following year
Requests are filed on the Portal das Finanças by 15 January of the year after the one in which you become resident.
The 20% rate then runs for ten consecutive years
The special 20% rate applies for ten consecutive years from the year of your registration as a resident.
What a late registration costs
If you register after the deadline, the 20% rate applies from the year you register, for the remaining years only. You do not lose the regime, you lose the missed years at 20%.
Sources: Portaria n.º 352/2024/1, art. 4; Estatuto dos Benefícios Fiscais, art. 58.º-A.
In numbers
How long the setup takes
Most clients complete the setup in 4 to 8 weeks. The benefit applies retrospectively, so the time it takes doesn't cost you money.
Check your timing in two minutes
A few questions about your income, your age and how you work. IFICI (NHR 2.0), IRS Jovem or the standard rates: we name the one that applies to you, and what it changes.
We know this system.
We are Portuguese and we know the portals, the deadlines, the language and the people on the other side of the phone. We built Portugalize because the bar for service in this industry was low and we wanted to raise it.
- Every message goes to the person managing your case, not to an assistant or a shared inbox.
- We advise you from the first assessment through to your IFICI registration, and on your taxes in the years after.
