fatura

Published 5 November 2026, 06:07

fatura (invoice, receipt with your NIF)

The document for a payment that a seller or clinic is obliged to issue. If you give your NIF when paying, the invoice goes into the e-fatura system and later appears automatically as an expense in your tax return. Without such an invoice, the expense does not exist as far as the state or the insurer is concerned.

Where you come across it. Any purchase and any doctor’s appointment, deductions in your tax return, health insurance reimbursements.

The insurer reimburses part of what you spent only against an invoice in your name — an ordinary receipt without a NIF will not do. Give your NIF at the till: shops are reluctant to reissue an invoice after the fact.

Official website: faturas.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt

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