About Madeira Contabilidade
We are an independent editorial directory helping residents, freelancers, and expats in Madeira find certified accountants and understand Portuguese tax rules.
Who we are
Redação Madeira Contabilidade
Editorial
The guides and calculators on this site are written and maintained by its editorial desk in Madeira. We are not certified accountants (OCC). Every tax figure cites its primary source: Diário da República, the Jornal Oficial da RAM, Portal das Finanças or AT Madeira. Individual tax advice is the job of certified accountants; the directory exists to help you find one.
- Not certified accountants (OCC)
- Primary source cited for every figure
Funchal, Madeira
When a guide is written or reviewed by a tax or accounting contributor (a certified accountant, a lawyer, an economist), their name and professional number appear in the piece itself. If you work in the field and would like to contribute, write to us through the contact form.
Why this exists
Madeira has ~260,000 residents + 14,000+ foreign-resident expats (5.5% of the population, highest in 11 years per INE). Nobody has an impartial bilingual directory of OCC-certified accountants. National tax calculators don't apply Madeira's 30% regional differential. Vendor-pushed blogs (Moloni, SaaS marketing) dominate the SERP without editorial neutrality. We built this to fix that: transparent calculators with Madeira's math right, a bilingual directory of accountants in the Region, and content that cites its sources.
How we work
- Primary sources first. Every tax claim cites Portal das Finanças, Diário da República, AT Madeira, or the Segurança Social portal. Secondary interpretations (PwC, Doutor Finanças) are marked as such.
- Listings from public sources. Each listing uses what the firm itself publishes (website, contacts, services). A firm can ask us to update, complete or remove its listing at any time through the contact form.
- Annual + mid-year refresh. Brackets and tables refresh in January. Rule changes land in /updates with source and date.
- Editorial neutrality. We do not rank accountants in editorial content in exchange for payment. Featured placement is paid and clearly labelled.
How we make money
Today the site has no revenue. This is the model we plan to use, disclosed in advance:
- Featured listings. Paid by the firm, never by the reader. A featured card appears at the top of the relevant filters, is labelled as paid, and does not change the editorial content.
- Referral fees. A firm may pay us when a reader books a consultation through the directory. It does not change the price the reader pays.
- Software affiliate links. Commission on invoicing or accounting software subscriptions started from our links, always labelled.
Trust and accuracy
Our calculators are estimates based on the 2026 rules as of the last-verified date shown on each page. Tax codes change. We commit to refreshing brackets every January and publishing mid-year updates as AT / Finanças releases them. For your situation, always confirm with an OCC-certified accountant - that's what the directory is for.