How much is property tax in each area of Portugal
Desk Report: Every year, municipalities set the Municipal Property Tax (IMI) rates to be charged the following year. In 2025 most municipalities will charge the minimum rate (0.30%).
The IMI rate to be applied in 2025 has already been announced by the vast majority of the 308 Portuguese municipalities. According to data published on the Finance Portal, there are 195 city halls that will apply the minimum rate of 0.3%, three more than last year. This is the case of Lisbon, Faro, Lagos, Coimbra, Funchal, Ponta Delgada, Leiria, Oeiras, Sintra or Viseu.
The number of municipalities that apply the maximum IMI rate of 0.45% remains the same, remaining six: Vila Real de Santo António, Alandroal, Nazaré, Mafra, Cartaxo and Torre de Moncorvo.
The good news is that there were 37 municipalities that decided to lower the IMI rate in 2025, with the biggest reductions being observed in Vila Nova de Poiares (from 0.45% to 0.39%), Celorico da Beira, Elvas (from 0.4% to 0.35% in both cases) and Portalegre (from 0.34% to 0.3%). Also in Vila Real de Santo António, there was a reduction in the IMI, leaving the exceptional maximum rate of 0.5% allocated to municipalities covered by the local economy support program or the municipal adjustment program. For this year the IMI rate in this Algarve municipality is now 0.45%.
Alongside all this, only two municipalities advanced with increases in this municipal tax: Torre de Moncorvo, district of Bragança, which increased from 0.3% to 0.45%; and Évora, which started charging 0.39%, a little more than last year (0.38%). This means that the vast majority of municipalities (a total of 258) chose to keep their IMI rates unchanged.
Each municipality can choose to reduce the IMI for families according to the number of dependents (one child has a discount of 30 euros, two are equivalent to 70 euros and three are equivalent to 140 euros). The IMI rate applied to rural properties continues to be 0.8% in all municipalities in the country.
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