Every year the IRS is a ‘big deal’ for thousands of taxpayers. Due to lack of information or simple inertia, there are families who waste hundreds or even thousands of euros because they don’t know how to use all the deductions or “rebates” they are entitled to on income tax.
There is one month left before the Income Tax filing begins, but there are deadlines that end next Monday. THE explains what you need to do to increase your IRS refund.
The most important and urgent thing is to validate – by next Monday – your pending invoices on the E-fatura portal. It should already be a monthly habit, but that still doesn’t happen.
If you don’t confirm that all outstanding invoices are in the right categories and those of all your family members, they automatically go to general family expenses. I.e, You could be missing out on up to 1,000 euros in healthcare deductions and up to 800 euros in education. In addition, you still have another 250 euros that you can collect from the invoices you requested throughout the year in various sectors of activity.
These expenses allow deduct 15% of the VAT you paid on each of them. It may seem like little, if you analyze them one by one, but all together – at the end of the year – they can represent but 250 eurosin addition to the 250 euros in general family expenses that practically all families can reach quickly.
If it is not practical for you to validate invoices on your computer, you can use the application on your cell phone which is also called “E-invoice”. In just a few minutes you can accomplish this task that can increase your IRS refund.
Another thing you should do quickly is update your household. If there were no changes by December 31, 2025, you don’t need to do anything, but if a child was born, you got married, there was a divorce or someone died, it is extremely important that you go to the Finance Portal and type “household” to update it.
Let’s look at another situation that could increase your IRS refund. Se live or have children studying in the interior of the country or on the islandsyou are entitled to larger deductions. And this also applies to everyone who live there and not just for those who have their children studying there. Instead of just R$800 worth of education, he will be able to deduct an additional 10% up to a limit of R$1,000.
But to do this you have to inform your children’s educational institution on a form. Search for “interior education expenses” and choose the municipality where the school is located. If you do this after March 2nd, you lose this benefit.
Attention: do not confuse it with “displaced student”. This is only for those who have a rental contract because they study more than 50 kilometers from home. Then the deduction is even greater. It can reach 1,100 euros. But it does not combine with studying abroad. You have to choose what is most advantageous for you.
There is another advantage for those who moved to the interior of the country. He can discount 15% of house rent up to a limit of 1,000 euros. It’s a lot more than living in the big cities on the coast.
Search: “inland territory income” and you will find the form. See if your parish is covered. If so, you can increase the amount of your IRS refund by another around 300 euros.
If you are a landlord and do not issue electronic receiptsdon’t forget that you also have until March 2nd to submit the Model 44 declaration, with the total value of the rent you received in 2025. And if you are a tenantremember your landlord. If everything is not filled out and submitted correctly, you could be losing up to 700 euros in deductions.
This detail is important because not all of your expenses will appear on the E-invoice. Don’t be surprised, it’s just like that: rents, mortgage interest, monthly payments, user fees and insurance will only appear on this other page, which will only be ready by March 15th. The reason is simple: they are receipts and not invoices.
Whatever does not appear here or has the wrong values, you will have to correct manually in model 3, when Income Tax delivery begins on April 1st.
