Portugal was one of the OECD countries where the burden on labor income rose more in the last 14 years.
A study of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), partly released yesterday, shows that the whole of the tax burden on average wages and contributions to Social Security, paid either by employers querpelos Portuguese workers, rose 3.9 percentage points between 2000 and 2014, from 37.3% to 41.2% considering the example of single workers without children.
Meanwhile there was the average of the 34 OECD countries fell by 0.7 percentage points in the same case, with the total charges on labor income on a net basis, ie reduced by any public support, to lower by 36.7% to 36% over the same 14 years.
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