Chapter III · Determination of the taxable amount · Section VI · Common and miscellaneous provisions · Subsection III · Conversion of companies

Article 72 Applicable regime

Artigo 72.º · Regime aplicável

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. The conversion of companies, even where the former company is dissolved, does not entail any change in the tax regime previously applied, nor does it in itself give rise to any consequences for IRC purposes, save as provided in the following paragraphs.

1 - A transformação de sociedades, mesmo quando ocorra dissolução da anterior, não implica alteração do regime fiscal que vinha sendo aplicado nem determina, por si só, quaisquer consequências em matéria de IRC, salvo o disposto nos números seguintes.

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2. Where a civil-law company not incorporated in commercial form is converted into a company of any of the types provided for in the Commercial Companies Code, the regime provided for in Article 6(1) applies to the taxable profit corresponding to the period from the beginning of the tax period in which the conversion took place up to the date of the conversion.

2 - No caso de transformação de sociedade civil não constituída sob forma comercial em sociedade sob qualquer dos tipos previstos no Código das Sociedades Comerciais, ao lucro tributável correspondente ao período decorrido desde o início do período de tributação em que se verificou a transformação até à data desta é aplicável o regime previsto no n.º 1 do artigo 6.º.

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3. For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, in the financial year in which the conversion takes place the profit corresponding to the periods before and after the conversion must be determined separately, and losses prior to the conversion, determined under this Code, may be deducted from the taxable profits of the company resulting from the conversion.

3 - Para efeitos do disposto no número anterior, no exercício em que ocorre a transformação deve determinar-se separadamente o lucro correspondente aos períodos anterior e posterior a esta, podendo os prejuízos anteriores à transformação, apurados nos termos deste Código, ser deduzidos nos lucros tributáveis da sociedade resultante da transformação.

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4. The date of acquisition of shares resulting from the conversion of a company into a company of another type is the date of acquisition of the shares from which they originated.

4 - A data de aquisição das partes sociais resultantes da transformação de sociedade em sociedade de outro tipo é a data de aquisição das partes sociais que lhes deram origem.

What we checked in this article

The tax neutrality of conversion (even with dissolution of the former company), the application of Article 6(1) to the pre-conversion part of the tax period for converted civil-law companies not in commercial form, the separate determination of pre- and post-conversion profit with carry-over of pre-conversion losses, and the carry-over of the acquisition date of shares are retained.

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