Chapter V · Charging and payment of the tax · Section IV · Special schemes · Subsection I · Exemption scheme

Article 54 Transfer from a taxation scheme to the special exemption scheme

Artigo 54.º · Passagem dos regimes de tributação ao regime especial de isenção

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. Where the conditions laid down in the preceding article are met and non-exempt taxable persons established in the national territory wish the scheme laid down there to apply to them, they shall submit the declaration referred to in Article 32.

1 - Se, verificados os condicionalismos previstos no artigo anterior, os sujeitos passivos não isentos estabelecidos em território nacional pretenderem a aplicação do regime nele estabelecido, devem apresentar a declaração a que se refere o artigo 32.º

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2. The declaration referred to in the preceding paragraph may be submitted only during January of the year following that in which the conditions referred to in the preceding article are met, and takes effect from 1 January of the year in which it is submitted.

2 - A declaração referida no número anterior só pode ser apresentada durante o mês de Janeiro do ano seguinte àquele em que se verifiquem os condicionalismos referidos no artigo anterior, produzindo efeitos a partir de 1 de Janeiro do ano da apresentação.

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3. (Repealed.)

3 - (Revogado.)

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4. Taxable persons who make use of the possibility provided for in paragraph 1 shall, under Article 24(5), adjust the deduction made in respect of fixed assets and, where they were previously covered by the normal regime, shall also adjust the tax deducted in respect of the stocks remaining at the end of the year; in either case, those adjustments shall be included in the return or payment slip for the last tax period.

4 - Os sujeitos passivos que utilizem a possibilidade prevista no n.º 1 devem proceder, nos termos do n.º 5 do artigo 24.º, à regularização da dedução efectuada quanto a bens do activo imobilizado e, quando anteriormente abrangidos pelo regime normal, devem também efectuar a regularização do imposto deduzido e respeitante às existências remanescentes no fim do ano, devendo, em qualquer dos casos, as referidas regularizações ser incluídas na declaração ou guia referente ao último período de tributação.

What we checked in this article

The January-only filing window with effect from 1 January, and the adjustments for fixed assets under Article 24(5) and for remaining stocks (for persons previously under the normal regime) in the last return, 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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