Digital Government Factsheet Portugal

Entrepreneur’s Desk
Responsibility: Central Government, Ministry of the Presidency and of 
Administrative Modernisation
Administrative Modernisation Agency (in partnership with the other 
public institutes related to starting-up a business) 
Website:
https://eportugal.gov.pt/inicio/espaco-empresa/
  
Description:
The Entrepreneur's Desk is the Portuguese point of single contact to 
digital services related to the exercise of economic activity. It is 
aimed at entrepreneurs who wish to perform services and obtain 
information related to the life cycle of their company. 
In 2018, 148 new, fully transactional services for business where 
added to the Entrepreneur’s Desk.

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Digital Government Factsheets - Portugal 
Registration of a new company 
Responsibility: Central Government, Ministry of the Presidency and of 
Administrative Modernisation, Administrative Modernisation Agency 
(in partnership with the other public institutes related to starting-up 
a business) 
Website:
https://eportugal.gov.pt/inicio/espaco-empresa/
  
Description:
The service Empresa On-
line is integrated in the Entrepreneur’s 
Desk and offers the possibility to completely carry out the 
declaration of a new business online and to set it up in less than one 
hour. The portal assists entrepreneurs on a range of legal 
procedures and administrative formalities and furthermore provides 
advisory services, such as business simulators and mobile telephony 
provider comparisons. 
Permanent Business Certificate (PBC) 
Responsibility: Central Government, Ministry of Justice 
Website:
https://eportugal.gov.pt/inicio/espaco-empresa
  
Description:
The PBC discloses the legal information of any business so as to 
ensure the safety of its transactions. This service allows any entity 
whose record is in the Information System of Commercial Registry 
(SIRCOM) database to have a permanent certificate available over 
the Internet. This ensures that while such a certificate is online, no 
entity, be it public or private, can demand a paper certificate. 
Taxation 
Excise duties, VAT and business tax