Other Professional Activities:
Member of the Commission for the Reassessment of Tax Benefits, appointed by Order of the Minister of State and Finance in May 2005.
Legal adviser to the Office of the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs since 2005 (of the 17th and 18th Constitutional Governments).
Chairman of the Interministerial Council for the Coordination of Tax Incentives for Investment (2010-2012).

Most Relevant Publications:
Tax Expenditure and the State Budget in the Portuguese Legal System, Coimbra, Almedina, 2004;

Co-authored with Sérgio Vasques, Casos Práticos de Direito Financeiro, AAFDL, 2004;

Tax Benefits: System and Regime, Cadernos IDEFF no. 6, Coimbra, Almedina, 2006;

Co-authored with Guilherme D’Oliveira Martins and Maria D’Oliveira Martins, Lei de Enquadramento Orçamental Anotada e Comentada, Coimbra, Almedina, 2007, 1st and 2nd editions;

A consolidação orçamental e a crise financeira, Coimbra, Almedina, in press;

Introduction to financial policies, Coimbra, Almedina, forthcoming;

Co-authored with Afonso D’Oliveira Martins, “El Tercer Sector en Portugal”, in El Tercer Sector Iberoamericano – Fundaciones, Associaciones y ONG’s (José Luis Piñar Mañas – Dir., Ricardo Sánchez Rivera – Coord.), Valencia, 2001, pp. 906 – 943;

“Supervision and proof of the exercise of the right to deduct VAT – with regard to simulated transactions… (Annotation to the Judgement of the Central Administrative Court of 9 April 2002 – Appeal no. 3817/00)”, Ciência e Técnica Fiscal, no. 406 (April – June), 2002;

Tax Redistribution – João Ricardo Catarino, Review published in Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal, no. 1, 2009 (March), pages 281 – 284 (co-authored with Nazaré Costa Cabral);

Co-authored with Alexandra Pessanha and Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, “The public-financial and competitive implications of the new Public Contracts Code: preliminary analysis”, Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal, no. 3, 2008 (October), pp. 151 – 178.