PSD: “Portugal is the 10th country in the OECD with the highest tax burden on labor and has the 6th lowest average salary”
On the official PSD Facebook page, a publication published on Tuesday, May 24 reads: “This is how Portugal continues, at the top of the last table. According to the OECD, the tax burden on all labor costs 0 .3 percentage points, now standing at 41.8%. Portugal is the 10th OECD country with the highest tax burden on laborand also the 6th country with the lowest average salary, according to the data for 2020 also for the OECD. Although the Portuguese are among those who contribute the least, they continue to be among those who contribute the most to the state coffers.”
As they are from the PSD, the data are for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Government of António Costa is the target of the blame between the two statistics.
The Polygraph consulted the annual report “Wage Taxation”from the OECD, which reports that while “in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, the tax burden on labor was above 45%, it was below 20% in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and New Zealand”. The highest tax burden was registered in Belgium (52.6%) and the lowest in Colombia (0.0%).
This means that, in Colombia, a single worker with an average salary did not pay taxes in 2021. average tax burden in OECD countries was 34.6% in 2021. This previous average2 percentage 0.06 percentage points at 20.17 percentage points year on year0.17 percentage points than the observed drop by 20 points (0.23 point peak of the Covid-19.
In Portugal, the workload on work rose again in 2021. This was the third year in a row of growth and placed Portugal, with a rate of 41.8%, in the 10th position of the classification countries where a higher percentage of labor costs go to the state through taxes and social contributions.
As far as the average salary in the countries is concerned, again according to Dice of the OECD, it is also true that Portugal occupies the 6th worst position in the data. received data 4,410 as well2 Portuguese.165. At the bottom of the table are countries like Mexico, Slovakia, Hungary, Chile and Greece. At the top, in turn, are the United States, Iceland, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
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