Taxes and the size of government

Do you know how much tax is in your electricity bill?

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What both sides want

Everyone wants their money to go further and their taxes to come back as services.

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The numbers

In 2025 taxes added up to 32.4% of everything the country produced, the highest level in the Treasury's records. The biggest share comes from taxes on what people buy.

Source: Tesouro Nacional, 2025

What does “tax burden” mean?

The tax burden is the sum of all the taxes in a country compared with everything it produces in a year.