Motorway tolls are likely to rise by 2.3% in 2026, if the estimate of the year-on-year inflation rate for October – excluding housing – released by INE statistics institute is confirmed.
The formula establishing how the toll price increase should be calculated each year is laid down in Decree-Law 294/97: the applicable variation is based on year-on-year inflation without housing on the mainland in the last month for which data is available before 15 November.
This is the deadline for motorway concessionaires to notify the government of price proposals for the following year.
INE’s provisional figures stand at 2.2% (the final figure will be released on November 12), and to this figure another 0.1% is added, following the agreement reached in 2022 by the Socialist government with the motorway concessionaires to compensate them for refusing to allow a massive 10% increase in 2023, when inflation was going through the roof.
At the time, the then Minister for Infrastructure, Pedro Nuno Santos, agreed that concessionaires would be entitled to four years of increases of 0.1% as compensation.
A 2.3% increase in prices is also in line with the increases brought in for 2024 and 2025
Source: LUSA
