What Portugal searched for on 15 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 09:20: lufthansa tap (10K+), retenção na fonte (5K+), austeridade (5K+), externato santa francisca (5K+), power outage (2K+), imigração (2K+).

• retenção na fonte5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Retenção na fonte is income tax (IRS) that an employer or pension fund withholds from each payment. On 14 October the finance minister ordered that salaries and pensions paid between 1 and 30 November will have only half the tax under the current tables withheld, and the same applies to the Christmas bonus (subsídio de Natal) if it is paid in November. This is how the government is passing on the IRS cut for 2026 that parliament approved last week. On a salary of €1,500, €84 will be withheld instead of €168, and the same goes for the Christmas bonus. From 1 December the usual tables apply again.

  There is no reduction for salaries above €20,000 a month or pensions above €18,000, and the Azores and Madeira have their own tables, to which the November reduction does not apply. You don't need to do anything: whoever pays you will recalculate the withholding.

  The November reduction is larger than the actual tax cut for the year, so in spring 2027, after the 2026 returns are filed, IRS refunds will be smaller than usual and some people will have to pay extra. According to PwC's calculations for Jornal de Negócios, most people will still get a refund. Detailed calculations are in our article IRS in November: €84 instead of €168 to be withheld from a €1,500 salary.

  

• lufthansa tap10K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  The sale of TAP to Germany's Lufthansa, a day after the government's decision: in addition to the first 49.9% for €1.201 billion, the government plans to sell Lufthansa the remaining 50.1% as well, by 2028 and only with parliament's consent. Lufthansa promises to expand TAP's fleet to 130 aircraft and open a flight school in Tancos. Nothing changes for passengers for now.

  Source: eco.sapo.pt

• austeridade5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Austeridade means "austerity": cuts to public spending, as in 2011–⁠2014. The word is back in the news because of the 2027 budget: Expresso reports that the International Monetary Fund does not believe Portugal will run further budget surpluses and thinks savings will have to be made. The Montenegro government says there will be no austerity; nothing changes for people for now.

• externato santa francisca5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Externato Santa Francisca, a private school and nursery in Lisbon (in Penha de França, for children aged 3 to 10): the Lisbon public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation following a complaint about the mistreatment of children, Expresso and Renascença reported.

  Source: rr.pt

• power outage2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Planned power cuts by E-Redes (the company that runs the electricity grid) for network repairs, reported yesterday by the English-language newspaper The Portugal News: on 15 October there will be no electricity in Algés and Linda-a-Velha in Oeiras from 8:00 to 12:00 and in Santarém from 9:00 to 11:00, and on the 16th in Alverca from 8:00 to 12:30. You can look up your street by postcode in the E-Redes list of planned outages.

  Source: e-redes.opendatasoft.com

• imigração2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Immigration is a constant topic in Portugal, but there was no new rule or decision today. We don't know why people started searching for it today in particular.

• andré ventura2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  Parliament's transparency committee ruled that a video by Chega party leader André Ventura, in which he portrayed MPs' absence on the day of the Livre party congress as skipping work, was a serious breach.

  Source: observador.pt

• polícia judiciária2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 22:02

  The Polícia Judiciária (criminal police) arrested a 34-year-old foreign national in the Lisbon area on suspicion of entering into a sham marriage with a Portuguese woman living in France in order to obtain a residence permit in Portugal. He was carrying a fake Spanish identity card, and France had already issued a removal order against him.

  Source: observador.pt