Chapter V · Charging and payment of the tax · Section III · Other obligations of taxable persons

Article 32 Declaration of changes

Artigo 32.º · Declaração de alterações

Código do Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado · republished by Decree-Law No. 102/2008 · consolidated text checked 26 October 2026

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1. Whenever any of the information contained in the declaration of commencement of activity changes, the taxable person must submit the corresponding declaration of changes.

1 - Sempre que se verifiquem alterações de qualquer dos elementos constantes da declaração relativa ao início de actividade, deve o sujeito passivo entregar a respectiva declaração de alterações.

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2. The declaration provided for in paragraph 1 shall be submitted at any tax office or other legally authorised place within 15 days of the date of the change, unless another time limit is expressly laid down in this Code.

2 - A declaração prevista no n.º 1 é entregue em qualquer serviço de finanças ou noutro local legalmente autorizado, no prazo de 15 dias a contar da data da alteração, se outro prazo não for expressamente previsto neste diploma.

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3. The taxable person is released from submitting the declaration referred to in paragraph 1 whenever the changes concerned relate to facts subject to registration at the commercial registry office, and to entities entered in the central register of legal persons that are not subject to commercial registration.

3 - O sujeito passivo fica dispensado da entrega da declaração mencionada no n.º 1 sempre que as alterações em causa sejam de factos sujeitos a registo na conservatória do registo comercial e a entidades inscritas no ficheiro central de pessoas colectivas que não estejam sujeitas a registo comercial.

What we checked in this article

The 15-day time limit and the release where the changes are subject to commercial registration or concern entities in the central register of legal persons are retained.

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Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.

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