despesa geral e familiar
Published 4 November 2026, 21:42
despesa geral e familiar (general family expenses)
The broadest category of receipts in e-Fatura: everything not assigned to health, education, housing or other separate deductions ends up here — food, clothes, household cleaning products. The system also automatically puts here receipts from shops whose main line of business does not match what you bought.
Where you come across it. e-Fatura, in the sections for pending and sorted receipts.
School items charged at the standard 23% IVA rate — exercise books, pens, rucksacks, pencil cases, school uniform — belong here under the rules: they cannot be moved to despesas de educação, and this is not a sorting error. Books and textbooks bought at a supermarket or an electronics shop, however, also end up here automatically; for such receipts you change the category yourself, by the end of February of the year after the invoice was issued.
Official website: faturas.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt