Finanças · Portuguese Tax Authority
Freelance receipts and invoice-receipts (Recibos Verdes / Faturas-Recibo)
Understand invoices, receipts and invoice-receipts and what they show about self-employed billing and payments.
What it is used for
Provide documents for services or sales and, depending on the document type, payments received.
Review an activity over a period and compare issued documents with accounting records and income information.
Fictional practical example
Rui invoices a service that will be paid later. Once paid, he issues the linked receipt. To explain the period’s income, he supplies both rather than treating the invoice as confirmation of payment.
More about this document
What it is
Recibos verdes is the common name for documents issued through the Finanças Faturas e Recibos service. An invoice records a billed transaction; a receipt records payment linked to an invoice. An invoice-receipt combines both when invoicing and payment occur together.
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Get documentPoints to check and differences
An invoice alone does not prove payment. Check cancellations, corrections, VAT and withholding before adding amounts: turnover is not automatically net income. Documents for one period do not replace the annual IRS return or guarantee future income.
Frequently asked questions
Do an invoice and an invoice-receipt prove the same thing?
No. The invoice records the billed transaction; an invoice-receipt also records payment when both happen together. If payment comes later, there is a receipt linked to the invoice.
Can freelance receipts alone prove annual income?
It depends on the recipient’s requirements. They can help assess a period but may not replace IRS or other documents. Confirm the requested period, document statuses and amounts.
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