Guides
Cost of living
Published tariffs, named and dated, with a calculator that takes your consumption rather than our assumptions.
What living on Madeira actually costs
Madeira is cheap on tax and dear on power. Electricity, water, fuel and tax at the rates EEM, ARM and the tax authority published for 2026, each linked.
How the electricity and water bills are actually built
EEM sets the power tariff and the contracted power sets the standing charge. ARM bills five municipalities and the rest bill their own. The 2026 rates, linked.
IMI: what each Madeiran council actually charges
The annual property tax is a council decision inside a national range, charged on the rateable value, not the price paid. What Madeira councils set for 2026.
The regional income tax table, and the ones that are wrong
Madeira replaces the national IRS table with its own. From 2026 the full regional reduction runs across all nine brackets, topping out well under the mainland.