Chapter III · Determination of the taxable amount · Section VI · Common and miscellaneous provisions · Subsection II · Special tax regime for groups of companies

Article 70 Determination of the group’s taxable profit

Artigo 70.º · Determinação do lucro tributável do grupo

Código do Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Coletivas · republished by Law No. 2/2014 · consolidated text checked 26 October 2026

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1. For each of the tax periods covered by the application of the special regime, the group’s taxable profit is calculated by the parent company as the algebraic sum of the taxable profits and tax losses determined in the individual periodic returns of each of the companies belonging to the group, adjusted, where applicable, for the effect of the option provided for in Article 67(5).

1 - Relativamente a cada um dos períodos de tributação abrangidos pela aplicação do regime especial, o lucro tributável do grupo é calculado pela sociedade dominante, através da soma algébrica dos lucros tributáveis e dos prejuízos fiscais apurados nas declarações periódicas individuais de cada uma das sociedades pertencentes ao grupo, corrigido, sendo caso disso, do efeito da aplicação da opção prevista no n.º 5 do artigo 67.º

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2. (Repealed.)

2 - (Revogado.)

What we checked in this article

The calculation by the parent company as the algebraic sum of the individual taxable profits and tax losses, adjusted where applicable for the Article 67(5) option, and the repeal of paragraph 2 are retained.

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