Salaries: Portugal is the eighth most heavily taxed country in the OECD.

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Salaries: Portugal is the eighth most heavily taxed country in the OECD.

The tax burden on labor in Portugal has been rising again, and it's jeopardizing the growth of the average wage, which has gone up 8.4 percent in the last year, but actually wages have only gone up 1.8 percent because of taxes and social contributions.