Since 2019 and the Covid-19 crisis, you can’t go physically unannounced in a Portuguese tax office to request your NIF. To ease your request, Anchorless offers you a list of all Finanças offices in Portugal and the conditions to make a NIF request in each of them.
With digitalisation of services in Portugal, NIF requests can now be done completely online by using services requesting a NIF for you. This is the way most used nowadays because:
Since 2019, it’s impossible to go to a Portuguese tax office without taking an appointment on the phone, and you need to speak Portuguese to take it, since they won’t speak english, or any other language.