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Voluntary liquidation is an alteration to a company’s legal status, with declared liquidation. The company’s legal personality remains unchanged until winding up.  
  

The online service is only available to private and public limited companies. 

Who can request  

Company’s Managers/administrators or secretaries  
Legal professionals  

Lawyers, notaries or solicitators 

Company Procuration holders

How to request  

Documents required: 

  • Request form (model 1)

  • Corporate deliberation approving the voluntary liquidation  

  • Minutes and private document or public deed in case the company holds immovable property. 

Documents written in a foreign language must be accompanied by the respective translation.

How to request online:

  1. Access the online service  
  2. Select means of authentication: Citizen card, Digital Mobile key, Digital certificate of legal professionals, European Authentication (eIDAS) 
  3. Select “Voluntary liquidation/Winding up" 
  4. Complete the form and attach the necessary documents  
  5. Make payment  (ATM reference).

Payment must be completed within 5 (consecutive) days from the date of its submission. 

 

When to request 

You can request within 2 months following the date of deliberation. 

If the request is made after the time limit indicated, there will an additional fee.

Onde pedir

Online

In person, at a commercial register office  

By post.

 

How must does it cost

Online service In-person/by post
Regular request: 170,00 euros 200,00 euros
Urgent request:  370,00 euros 400,00 euros

 

What happens next 

After the completion of the order:

We provide the billing document  

The billing document is sent to your email. In the case of in-person orders, the document is delivered after the completion of the order.

We begin to process your request 

The request will be reviewed and if there are no non-conformities, the request is approved. 

If the request is successfully completed, you receive an email with this information, together with the access code to the permanent certificate. If the request is carried out in-person at a service desk, you get the access code immediately. Requests by post, will also receive the documents by post. 

If there are non-conformities in the request, you will be notified and have 5 consecutive days to correct them. Correction of non-conformities has an additional cost of 30,00 EUR. 

If you do not correct the request in due time, the registry might be provisionally approved or refused.

You must update the beneficial owner  

Upon registry confirmation, you need to: 

  • Update internal contracts and documents  

  • Inform bank entities 

  • Inform other sector-specific entities 

  • Inform clients and suppliers  

  • Update licences and authorisations. 

Legislação de suporte

Decree-Law nr 76-A/2006