What Portugal searched for on 14 October 2026
Most searched in the 24 hours to 15:20: penhora (20K+), inflação (10K+), salário (5K+), cortes de luz (5K+), a2 (5K+), schmidt light metal fundição injectada lda (5K+).
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penhora20K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Penhora is the seizure of assets to pay off a debt: the tax office or an enforcement agent (agente de execução) can take money from a bank account, withhold part of a salary or pension, or seize a car or a flat. Two thirds of net pay cannot be touched, and if you have no other income, you must be left with at least the minimum wage. Before assets are seized over a tax debt, you have 30 days from the notice to pay or ask to pay in instalments. Our guide Can't pay your IRS in one go: how to set up instalments explains how. We don't know why people started searching for this today.
Source: our guide
The tax office (Serviço de Finanças) in Estremoz. Photo: GualdimG, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 -
salário5K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Salário means salary, and retenção na fonte is the tax withheld from it at source. On 14 October the Diário da República published a Finance Ministry order (Despacho n.º 12523-A/2026): on salaries and pensions paid between 1 and 30 November, only half the income tax (IRS) required by the current tables will be withheld. The same applies to the Christmas bonus (subsídio de Natal) if it is paid in November. For example, a single person earning €1,500 gross will have €84 withheld in November instead of the usual €168. In December the previous tables return.
The cut does not apply to people living in the Azores and Madeira, which have their own withholding tables. Nor does it apply to the highest incomes: from €20,221 a month for single people, from €20,468 for married couples and from roughly €18,000 for pensioners.
You don't need to do anything: your employer or pension provider will recalculate the withholding. This is how the government is passing on straight away the cut in IRS rates for 2026 that parliament approved on 9 October. As always, the final amount will be settled in the tax return in spring 2027. More in our news story.
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euribor1K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Euribor is the interbank rate that banks use to calculate interest on variable-rate mortgages. On 14 October the six-month rate, on which most mortgages in Portugal are based, stood at 2.905%, and the twelve-month rate at 3.191%; in June the six-month rate was 2.562%. Every additional half a percentage point adds about €40 a month to the repayments on a €150,000 loan. What else goes into the rate is explained in our guide Mortgages in Portugal: what makes up the rate and what a foreigner will be asked. We don't know why it was searched for today in particular.
Source: our guide
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inflação10K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Inflação means inflation. On 13 October the statistics office INE confirmed that prices rose by 3.6% year on year in September, the highest rate since August 2023. Energy prices went up by 15.4%, driven above all by fuel.
Source: observador.pt
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cortes de luz5K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Cortes de luz means power cuts. From 13 to 16 October E-Redes (the company that runs the electricity grid) is cutting power in some neighbourhoods for two to four hours for grid repairs: on 14 October in Campo de Ourique in Lisbon from 9:00 to 12:00, and in Póvoa de Santa Iria and Coruche; on the 15th in Algés and Linda-a-Velha in Oeiras from 8:00 to 12:00, and in Santarém; on the 16th in Alverca from 8:00 to 12:30. You can look up your street by postcode in E-Redes' list of planned outages.
Source: e-redes.opendatasoft.com
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a25K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
On the A2 motorway near Alcácer do Sal, the GNR stopped a lorry carrying 8,000 litres of petrol in jerrycans. According to the police, the fuel was intended for drug traffickers' boats.
Source: observador.pt
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schmidt light metal fundição injectada lda5K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
The Schmidt Light Metal car-parts foundry in Oliveira de Azeméis is closing after going bankrupt: about 310 workers will lose their jobs at the beginning of December.
Source: sapo.pt
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economia5K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
Economia means economy. There was a lot of coverage that day of the 2027 budget, the halved IRS withholding on November pay and the sale of a stake in TAP, but we don't know why people started searching for this word today.
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lufthansa5K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
The government has chosen Lufthansa to buy 44.9% of TAP: the German airline is paying €1.201 billion, 16% more than Air France-KLM offered. A further 4.9% will be reserved for employees, and the state will keep a majority stake. The deal must be approved by the European Commission, and the first stage of the privatisation will be completed in 2028. For passengers, nothing changes for now.
Source: rtp.pt
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banco carregosa1K+ searchesPublished 2 November 2026, 04:17
The Judicial Police and the tax authority carried out 53 searches in Lisbon, Setúbal and Porto, including at Banco Carregosa and the Lisbon branch of Banco Angolano de Investimento. Investigators say shell companies sold houses to one another to avoid paying IMT (the tax on buying property), costing the state more than €66 million. For homebuyers, the IMT rules have not changed.
Source: rr.pt
