taxes on personal wealth

Fisc. impôt sur le patrimoine des personnes physiques

• taxes on personal net wealth

• taxes paid in advance

• taxes payable

• taxes on land

• taxes on personal net wealth

• taxes other than income tax

• taxes on goods and services

• taxes on net income and profits

• taxes on personal net wealth

• Tax Administration Division

• tax advances

• tax-advantage investment

• taxes on personal net wealth

• taxes paid in advance

• taxes payable

• advance tax

• taxes on personal net wealth

• taxes paid in advance

• taxes payable

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accrued tax накопившаяся задолженность по выплате налогов achieve a tax saving добиваться экономии за счет уменьшения налоговых платежей ad valorem tax налог на стоимость additional income tax дополнительный подоходный налог additional tax дополнительный налог additional value for tax purposes добавленная стоимость для налогообложения advance corporation tax (ACT) авансовый налог с корпорации advance tax предварительное определение судебных издержек after tax после удержания налога airport tax налог с пассажиров, отбывающих за границу из данного аэропорта allowance against tax налоговая льгота alternative minimum tax (AMT) минимальный альтернативный налог amusement tax налог на развлечения (на билеты в кино, театры и т.п.) amusement tax налог на развлечения attract income tax взимать подоходный налог basic rate income tax базисная ставка подоходного налога basic rate of tax базисная налоговая ставка beverage tax налог на продажу напитков business tax налог на предпринимателя business tax налог на предприятие business tax налог на торгово-промышленное предприятие calculated income tax вычисленный подоходный налог capital gains tax налог на доход от прироста капитала capital gains tax налог на доходы от прироста капитала capital gains tax налог на увеличение рыночной стоимости капитала capital gains tax on shares налог на доход от прироста капитала от акций capital tax налог на капитал capital transfer tax налог на перевод капитала capital yields tax налог на доход от капитала car tax налог на автомобиль carbon dioxide tax налог на выбросы в атмосферу диоксида углерода charge tax облагать налогом charter tax чартерный налог church tax церковный налог city tax муниципальный налог climate improvement tax налог на выбросы в атмосферу диоксида углерода commercial earnings tax налог на доходы от торговли commercial enterprise subject to value-added tax торговое предприятие, облагаемое налогом на добавленную стоимость community tax местный налог company tax налог на доходы компании company tax налог с доходов компании consumption tax налог на потребление consumption tax налог потребления contingent tax скрытый налог corporate income tax налог с доходов корпорации corporate income tax подоходный налог корпорации corporate profits tax налог на прибыли корпорации corporate tax налог с доходов компаний или корпораций corporate tax налог с доходов корпорации corporation tax налог на корпорацию county tax муниципальный налог coupon tax купонный налог current tax on wealth действующий налог на имущество death tax налог на наследство deduct tax удерживать налоги deferred income tax налог на доход будущего периода deferred tax отсроченный налог delinquent tax неуплаченный налог development tax налог на строительство direct tax прямой налог tax (государственный) налог; пошлина; сбор; direct (indirect) taxes прямые (косвенные) налоги dividend tax налог на дивиденды due tax причитающийся налог emergency tax чрезвычайный налог entrance tax вступительный налог equalization tax уравнительный налог equalizing tax равномерное распределение налогов estate tax налог на наследство estate tax налог на передачу имущества по наследству excise tax акциз excise tax акцизный налог excise tax акцизный сбор expenditure tax налог на расходы extraordinary tax особый налог federal tax федеральный налог final tax окончательный размер налога flat-rate tax налог, взимаемый по единой ставке flat-rate tax пропорциональный налог for tax purposes в целях налогообложения for tax reasons по причинам налогообложения franchise tax налог на монопольные права и привилегии full-year tax сумма налогов за год general consumption tax налог на все виды потребления gift tax налог на дарение gift tax налог на дарения (США) graduated income tax прогрессивный подоходный налог graduated tax прогрессивный налог head tax налог. подушный налог heavy tax большой, обременительный налог; nuisance tax амер. небольшой налог, выплачиваемый по частям hidden tax налог. скрытый налог hydrocarbon tax налог. налог за выбросы углеводородов в окружающую среду I cannot tax my memory не могу вспомнить; to tax (smb.'s) patience испытывать (чье-л.) терпение impose a tax облагать налогом income tax подоходный налог individual income tax персональный подоходный налог industrial tax промышленный налог inheritance tax налог на наследство initial car tax регистрационный налог на автомобиль inland revenue tax государственный налог input tax налог на производственные затраты input value-added tax налог на добавленную стоимость insurance tax налог на страхование interest equalization tax уравнительный налог на доход от процентов internal revenue tax налог на внутренние доходы investment income tax подоходный налог на капиталовложения investment tax налог на капиталовложения tax напряжение, бремя, испытание; it is a great tax on my time это требует от меня слишком много времени land tax земельный налог land tax налог на земельную собственность land transfer tax налог на перевод за границу платежей за землю land value tax налог на стоимость земельных участков levy a tax облагать налогом single tax единый земельный налог; to levy a tax (on smb., smth.) облагать (кого-л., что-л.) налогом local income tax местный подоходный налог local income tax муниципальный подоходный налог local property tax местный налог на недвижимое имущество local property tax местный поимущественный налог local tax местный налог local tax муниципальный налог lump sum tax аккордный налог lump sum tax налог на совокупную сумму доходов motor vehicle tax налог на автомобиль multistage tax многоступенчатый налог municipal tax муниципальный налог national income tax государственный подоходный налог national tax государственный налог national tax федеральный налог negative income tax отрицательный подоходный налог (лица с доходом ниже установленного уровня и имеющие семью освобождаются от налога и пучают финансовую помощь от налоговой системы) negative income tax отрицательный подоходный налог net wealth tax налог на имущество, исключая долги net worth tax налог на собственность nonpersonal tax налог на недвижимое имущество nonrecurring tax единовременный налог nonrefundable purchase tax невозмещаемый налог на покупки heavy tax большой, обременительный налог; nuisance tax амер. небольшой налог, выплачиваемый по частям output tax налог на объем производства overall tax effect эффект полного налогообложения overpaid tax переплаченный налог pay-as-you-earn tax налог, взимаемый по мере поступления доходов pay-as-you-earn tax (PAYE tax) подоходный налог, автоматически вычитаемый из заработной платы payroll tax налог на заработную плату penalty tax пеня personal income tax личный подоходный налог personal property tax личный поимущественный налог personal property tax налог на личное имущество personal tax личный подоходный налог personal tax налог на движимое имущество personal tax подушный налог petrol tax налог на нефть petroleum revenue tax (PRT) налог на доход от продажи нефти poll tax подушный налог price excluding tax цена без учета налога profits tax налог на прибыли progressive tax прогрессивный налог property transfer tax налог на передачу правового титула proportional tax пропорциональный налог provisional tax временная налоговая ставка raw materials tax налог на сырье real estate tax налог на недвижимость registration tax сбор за регистрацию regressive tax регрессивный налог relief from tax освобождение от уплаты налога relief from tax скидка с налога remit tax освобождать от уплаты налога residual tax остаточный налог retail sales tax налог с розничного оборота retained tax удержанный налог sales tax налог на доходы от продаж sales tax налог на продажи sales tax налог с оборота sales tax торговый сбор seamen's income tax подоходный налог с моряков seamen's tax налогообложение моряков single tax единый земельный налог; to levy a tax (on smb., smth.) облагать (кого-л., что-л.) налогом single tax единый налог specific tax индивидуально определенный налог specific tax специальный налог state tax государственный налог substantive tax law материальное налоговое законодательство succession tax налог на наследуемую недвижимость supplementary tax дополнительный налог surplus tax чрезмерный налог tax взимать членские взносы tax делать выговор, отчитывать (кого-л.); обвинять, осуждать (with) tax назначать цену tax (государственный) налог; пошлина; сбор; direct (indirect) taxes прямые (косвенные) налоги tax налог tax напряжение, бремя, испытание; it is a great tax on my time это требует от меня слишком много времени tax облагать налогом; таксировать tax облагать налогом tax облагать пошлиной tax обложение tax юр. определять размер убытков (штрафа и т. п.); определять размер судебных издержек tax пошлина tax размер счета tax сбор tax амер. разг. спрашивать, назначать цену; what will you tax me? сколько это будет (мне) стоить? tax таксировать, определять размер (о судебных издержках) tax членские взносы tax чрезмерно напрягать, подвергать испытанию; утомлять; the work taxes my powers эта работа слишком тяжела для меня tax in arrears просрочка уплаты налога tax on capital налог на капитал tax on capital accretion налог на прирост стоимости капитала tax on corporate net wealth налог на нетто-активы корпорации tax on distributions налог на оптовую торговлю tax on energy налог на электроэнергию tax on funds налог на капитал tax on income подоходный налог tax on income from capital налог на доход с капитала tax on industry налог на промышленное производство tax on land value increment налог на прирост стоимости земли tax on personal net wealth налог на личные нетто-активы tax on real rate of return налог на реальную ставку прибыли tax on the conveyance of property налог на передачу права собственности tax on the transfer of property налог на передачу права собственности tax on unearned income налог на непроизводственный доход tax on unearned income налог на нетрудовой доход tax on unearned income налог на рентный доход tax on value added налог на добавленную стоимость tax on wealth налог на имущество tax on yield of pension scheme assets налог на доход от капитала, вложенного в фонд пенсионного обеспечения I cannot tax my memory не могу вспомнить; to tax (smb.'s) patience испытывать (чье-л.) терпение trade tax налог на торговую деятельность trade tax торговый налог transfer tax налог на передачу собственности turnover excluding tax налог с учетом оборота turnover including tax налог без учета оборота turnover tax налог с оборота undistributed profit tax налог на нераспределенную прибыль unearned income tax налог на рентный доход value added tax налог на добавленную стоимость vehicle tax налог на автотранспортные средства wage bill tax налог на фонд заработной платы wage tax налог на заработную плату wealth tax налог на имущество tax амер. разг. спрашивать, назначать цену; what will you tax me? сколько это будет (мне) стоить? windfall profits tax налог на непредвиденную прибыль withholding tax налог на процентный доход и дивиденды, выплачиваемые нерезидентам withholding tax налог путем вычетов withholding tax налог с суммы дивидендов, распределяемых среди держателей акций withholding tax подоходный налог, взимаемый путем регулярных вычетов из заработной платы tax чрезмерно напрягать, подвергать испытанию; утомлять; the work taxes my powers эта работа слишком тяжела для меня

impôt [ɛ̃po]

( = taxe) tax

• payer des impôts to pay tax

• je paye plus de 10 000 € d'impôts I pay more than 10,000 euros in tax

• impôt direct/indirect/déguisé direct/indirect/hidden tax

• impôt retenu à la source tax deducted at source

• faire un bénéfice de 10 000 € avant impôt to make a profit of 10,000 euros before tax

► impôt sur les bénéfices tax on profits

► impôt sur le chiffre d'affaires tax on turnover

► impôt foncier ≈ land tax

► impôt sur les grandes fortunes wealth tax

► impôts locaux local taxes

► impôt sur les plus-values ≈ capital gains tax

► impôt sur le revenu income tax

► impôt sur les sociétés corporation tax

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The main taxes in France are income tax ( l'impôt sur le revenu), value-added tax on consumer goods (« la TVA »), local taxes funding public amenities ( les impôts locaux) and two kinds of company tax (« la taxe professionnelle », l'impôt sur les sociétés).

Income tax can either be paid in three instalments (the first two, known as « tiers provisionnels », are estimates based on the previous year's tax, while the third makes up the actual tax due), or in monthly instalments (an option known as « mensualisation »). Late payment incurs a 10% penalty known as a « majoration ».

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nom masculin tax

- impôt additionnel

- impôt foncier

- impôt sur les plus-values

- impôt sur le revenu

- impôt sur les sociétés

- impôts locaux

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1. nm

1) (taxe spécifique) tax

2)

2. impôts nmpl

(= contributions) tax sg

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impôt

A nm

1 ( prélèvement) tax; payer ses impôts to pay one's taxes; payer 2 000 € d'impôts to pay €2,000 in tax; avant/après impôt before/after tax; impôt direct/indirect direct/indirect tax; impôt progressif/proportionnel progressive/proportional tax;

2 ( fiscalité) l'impôt taxation.

B impôts nmpl ( institution) les impôts tax (sg); réduire les impôts to reduce tax; payer des impôts to pay tax.

impôt additionnel surtax; impôt sur les bénéfices corporation tax; impôt sur le capital tax on capital; impôt foncier property tax; impôt sur la fortune wealth tax; impôt sur les grandes fortunes, IGF ≈ wealth tax; impôt indiciaire wealth-related tax; impôts locaux local taxes; impôt sur le patrimoine inheritance tax; impôt sur les plus-values capital gains tax; impôt de quotité proportional tax; impôt sur le revenu income tax; impôt sur le revenu des personnes physiques, IRPP personal income tax; impôt sur les sociétés corporate tax, company tax; impôt de solidarité sur la fortune, ISF ≈ wealth tax.

ⓘ Impôt sur le revenu A tax payable on income (but not deducted at source) which may be paid in three instalments in arrears or on a monthly basis. An annual tax return ( la déclaration d'impôts) must be completed as part of the process.

[ɛ̃po] nom masculin

1. [prélèvement] tax

écrire/aller aux impôts (familier) [à l'hôtel des impôts] to write to/to go and see the tax people

2. (figuré & littéraire)

These are taxes levied to finance local, departmental or regional government. The best-known are the taxe d'habitation (paid by rent-paying tenants), the taxe foncière (paid by homeowners) and the taxe professionnelle (levied on businesses). The rate of each tax is decided at local level.

1. n

2. attr.

3. v

n под. податок; збір; акциз; обкладення; a податковий

обов'язковий платіж, який уряд накладає на товари і послуги, на дохід окремих осіб і підприємств, на власність, на прибутки тощо з метою одержання надходжень (revenue¹) для фінансування державних видатків на охорону здоров'я, розвиток освіти, пенсійне забезпечення та ін. програми, з метою регулювання рівня витрат в економіці (economy¹) країни тощо; ♦ існують прямі (direct tax) і непрямі (indirect tax) податки; до прямих податків належать прибутковий податок (income tax), податок на реалізований дохід від приросту активів (capital gains tax), майновий податок (wealth tax), що стосується вартості чистих активів, земельний податок (land tax) тощо; до непрямих — податок з обороту (sales tax), акцизний збір (excise duty), тарифи (tariff), митний податок (customs duty) тощо

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accrued tax нарахована заборгованість зі сплати податків; accumulated earnings tax податок на нерозподілений прибуток; ad valorem tax лат. податок на вартість • податок з оголошеної ціни • податок у вигляді певного відсотка; advance corporation tax (ACT) податок на корпорації, виплачений авансом; agricultural tax сільськогосподарський податок; alcohol tax податок на алкогольні напої; alcohol-beverage tax податок на алкогольні напої • податок на спиртні напої; alternative minimum tax (AMT) альтернативний мінімальний податок; amusement tax податок на розваги (вистави, прокат кінофільмів); apportioned tax розподілений податок; assessed taxes прямі податки (на майно); burdensome taxes обтяжливі податки; business tax податок на бізнес • податок на підприємця; capital tax податок на капітал; capital gains tax (CGT); capital transfer tax податок на передачу капіталу; capitation tax податок, розрахований на одну особу; cargo tax податок на вантаж; chain-store tax прогресивний податок на мережу роздрібних крамниць ланцюгового підпорядкування; commodity tax (непрямий) податок на товари; company income tax податок на доходи компаній • податок на прибуток підприємств; consumption tax податок на споживання; corporate tax податок на прибуток корпорацій; corporation income tax податок на прибуток корпорацій • податок на доходи корпорацій; corrective tax коригуючий податок; death tax податок на спадщину; death and gift tax податок на спадщину і дарування; deferred tax відстрочені податки; deferred income tax відстрочений прибутковий податок; direct tax; dividends tax податок на дивіденди; double tax подвійний податок; earmarked taxes податки, резервовані для спеціальних цілей; effluent tax податок на відходи, що забруднюють середовище; emergency tax надзвичайний податок; employer payroll tax податок на підприємницький фонд заробітної плати; employment tax внесок у фонд страхування від безробіття; equalization tax урівноважу вальний податок • мито для вирівнювання; estate tax податок на спадщину • податок на нерухомість; estimated tax приблизно підрахований податок; excess profits tax податок на надприбуток; excise tax акцизний збір • акцизний податок; expenditure tax податок на видатки • непрямий податок; export tax експортне мито • податок на експорт; federal tax федеральний податок • податок, стягнений федеральним урядом; federal income taxes федеральні прибуткові податки • федеральні податки на доходи; flat tax пропорційний податок • податок, стягнений за єдиною ставкою; flat-rate tax пропорційний податок • податок, стягнений за єдиною ставкою; foreign tax закордонний податок • податок, стягнений закордонною державою; franchise tax податок на монопольні права і привілеї • франшизний податок; fringe benefits tax (FBT) податок на додаткові пільги; general property tax податок на всі види власності; general sales tax загальний податок з обороту; gift tax податок на дарування; goods and services tax податок на товари і послуги; graded tax податок з диференційованою ставкою; graduated tax податок, стягнений за прогресивною ставкою • прогресивний податок; graduated income tax прогресивний прибутковий податок; hidden taxes непрямий податок • неявний податок • прихований податок; highway tax збір на будівництво шосейних доріг; import tax імпортне мито • податок на імпорт; import equalization tax імпортний податок для вирівнювання • імпортне мито для вирівнювання; import turnover tax податок з обороту імпортних товарів; imposed tax запроваджений податок; income tax; increment value tax податок на приріст вартості; indirect tax; inflation tax інфляційний податок; inheritance tax податок на спадщину; interest equalization tax податок, який вирівнює ставки відсотка; intermediate taxes проміжні податки; land tax; legacy tax податок на спадщину; local tax місцевий податок; lump-sum tax одноразовий податок • податок на сукупну суму доходів • акордний податок; luxury tax податок на предмети розкоші; mainstream corporation tax основна сума податку на прибуток корпорацій; matured tax податок, за яким настав термін сплати; maximum tax максимальний податок; minimum tax мінімальний податок; motor vehicle tax податок на автомобілі; multistage sales tax багатоступінчастий податок на збут; municipal tax муніципальний податок; national tax загальнодержавний податок; net taxes чистий податок; net worth tax податок на власність; nondeductible tax податок, який не підлягає відрахуванню; occupational tax податок на професію; payroll tax податок із заробітної плати; personal property tax податок на особисте (рухоме) майно; privilege tax податок на привілей; processing tax податок на товар, який підлягає обробці; profits tax податок на прибутки; progressive tax прогресивний податок; property tax майновий податок • податок на власність; proportional tax пропорційний податок • податок, стягнений за єдиною ставкою; purchase tax (непрямий) податок на покупки; real estate tax податок на нерухомість; receipts tax податок з обороту; regressive tax регресивний податок; retail sales tax податок з роздрібного обороту; sales tax; securities tax податок на цінні папери; security transfer taxes податки на переказ цінних паперів; severance tax податок на видобуток корисних копалин; shared tax частковий податок; single tax єдиний податок; single-stage sales tax одноступінчастий податок на збут; social security tax податок на програму соціального страхування; specific tax специфічний податок; stamp tax гербовий збір; state tax податок, стягнений штатом • урядовий податок • податок, який регулює витрати на споживання товарів; stockholder's tax податок на доходи з акцій; stock transfer tax податок на операції з переказу акцій; sumptuary tax податок, який регулює споживання товарів; supplemental tax додатковий податок; tobacco tax акциз на тютюнові вироби; tonnage tax корабельний збір; trade tax промисловий податок; transaction tax податок з операцій; transfer tax податок на переказ; turnover tax податок з обороту; undistributed profit tax податок на нерозподілений прибуток; unit tax податок на одиницю • акцизний податок; value tax податок з оголошеної ціни; value-added tax (VAT) податок на додану вартість; wage tax податок на заробітну плату; wealth tax; withholding tax податок, який стягується шляхом регулярних вирахувань із заробітної плати

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after tax після відрахування податку; before tax до відрахування податку; exempt from tax не підлягає оподаткуванню; for tax purposes з метою оподаткування; incidence of tax розподіл податкового тягаря; liable to tax оподатковуваний • який підлягає оподаткуванню; net marginal tax rate чиста гранична ставка податку; progressive tax structure прогресивна схема оподаткування; regressive tax structure регресивна схема оподаткування; shifting of a tax перекладення податкового тягаря; subject to tax оподатковуваний • який підлягає оподаткуванню; tax account податковий рахунок; tax accounting податковий облік; tax accounts податкова звітність; tax administration податкове відомство • податкова адміністрація; tax advantage вигода, яка випливає із практикованої системи оподаткування; tax adviser радник з питань оподаткування • консультант у справах оподаткування; tax allocation розподіл податків; tax allowance знижка з оподатковуваної суми; tax amount розмір податків • сума податків; tax and expenditure policy бюджетно-податкова політика • фінансово-податкова політика; tax arrears заборгованість з податків; tax assessment встановлення податкових ставок • обкладання податком • оподаткування; tax assessment act закон про оподаткування; tax assessment authority податкове управління; tax assessment complaint скарга, пов'язана з неправильним оподаткуванням; tax assessment method порядок оподаткування • порядок встановлення податкових ставок; tax assessor податковий інспектор; tax at source податок, відрахований із загальної суми доходів; tax-at-source system система відрахування податку із загальної суми доходів; tax auditor податковий аудитор • податковий ревізор; tax authority податкове управління; tax avoidance ухилення від сплати податків; tax barrier податкова перешкода; tax base база оподаткування; tax benefit податкова пільга; tax bracket ступінь податкової схеми; tax burden податковий тягар; tax ceiling максимальний рівень оподаткування; tax charge нарахування податку; tax collection стягнення податку; tax collection rate рівень податкових надходжень; tax concession податкова пільга; tax consultant консультант у справах оподаткування; tax control податковий контроль; tax control act закон про податковий контроль; tax court податковий суд; tax credit податкова пільга • податкова знижка • відстрочена сплата податку • податковий кредит; tax debt заборгованість з податків; tax declaration податкова декларація; tax-deductible який підлягає звільненню від сплати податку; tax deduction відрахування від податку • зменшення податку; tax deferral відстрочення оподаткування; tax dodging ухилення від сплати податків; tax equalization вирівнювання податку; tax equalization account рахунок вирівнювання податку; tax equalization fund фонд вирівнювання податку; tax evasion ухилення від сплати податків; tax-exempt не підлягає оподаткуванню • звільнений від податку; tax exempted (T. E.) звільнений від податку; tax exemption звільнення від податку; tax expense витрати на сплату податків; tax file number (TFN) реєстраційний номер в податковому управлінні; tax filing date термін подання податкової декларації; tax form бланк податкової декларації; tax fraud податкове шахрайство; tax free вільний від сплати податку • безмитний • неоподатковуваний; tax haven податковий рай; tax identification number ідентифікаційний податковий номер; tax in arrears прострочені до сплати суми податку; tax incentive податковий стимул; tax income надходження від оподаткування; tax increase зростання податків; tax in kind натуральний податок; tax law податкове право • податкове законодавство; tax leasing податкова оренда; tax legislation податкове законодавство; tax levy податковий збір; tax liability заборгованість з податкових платежів; tax loophole лазівка в податковому законодавстві • можливість ухилитися від сплати податків; tax loss збитки від оподаткування; tax loss carry-back зарахування втрат при сплаті податку за минулий період; tax loss carry-forward зарахування втрат при сплаті податку на рахунок майбутнього прибутку; tax loss setoff компенсація втрат при сплаті податку; tax management податковий контроль; tax office податкове управління; tax offset відшкодований податок • податковий кредит; tax on capital податок на капітал; tax on cargo вантажний збір; tax on importation податок на імпорт; tax on income податок на дохід • прибутковий податок; tax on industry податок на промислове виробництво; tax on investments податок на вклади • податок на цінні папери; tax on a patent патентне мито; tax on profits податок на прибутки; tax on wealth податок на майно; tax overpayment переплата податку; tax owed належний податок; tax paid сплачений податок; tax paid in kind податок, сплачений натурою; tax payable податок, який підлягає сплаті; tax payment виплата податкових сум • сплата податків; tax penalty штраф за несплату податку; tax period період оподаткування; tax planning планування податкових надходжень; tax policy податкова політика; tax principle принцип оподаткування; tax privilege податкова пільга; tax proceeds податкові надходження; tax provision резерв на сплату податку; tax rate податкова ставка • ставка оподаткування; tax rebate податкова пільга • знижка з податку • зниження податкових ставок; tax receipts податкові надходження; tax reduction зниження податку; tax reform податкова реформа; tax reform bill законопроект про податкову реформу; tax refund повернення сплаченого податку; tax reorganization перебудова системи оподаткування; tax return податкова декларація • податковий дохід • розрахунок податку; tax revenue дохід від податків • податкові надходження; tax scale схема ставок податку; tax services консультативні послуги з оподаткування; tax shelter засіб зменшення або уникнення сплати податку; tax shifting перекладення податкового тягаря; tax statement податкова декларація; tax status податковий статус; tax surcharge додатковий податок; tax threshhold нижня межа оподатковуваних доходів • нижня межа оподаткування; tax value of a deduction розмір податкового відрахування; tax verification перевірка правильності оплати податків; tax year обліковий рік оподаткування; tax yield податковий дохід; to abate a tax знижувати/знизити податок; to abolish a tax скасовувати/скасувати податок; to be exempt from tax бути звільненим від сплати податку; to charge a tax стягувати/стягнути податок; to collect taxes стягувати/стягнути податки; to cut a tax знижувати податок; to deduct taxes відраховувати/відрахувати податки; to dodge taxes ухилятися/ухилитися від сплати податку; to evade taxes ухилятися/ухилитися від сплати податку; to exempt from tax звільняти/звільнити від сплати податку; to impose a tax оподатковувати/оподаткувати • накладати/накласти податок • вводити/ввести податок; to increase taxes підвищувати/підвищити податки; to lay on a tax оподатковувати/оподаткувати; to levy a tax оподатковувати/оподаткувати; to pay taxes оплачувати/оплатити податки; to raise taxes підвищувати/підвищити податки • збирати/зібрати податки; to reduce taxes знижувати/знизити податки; to remove a tax скасовувати/скасувати податок; to withhold taxes відраховувати/відрахувати податки • затримувати/затримати сплату податків

tax ‡ tax (393)

▹▹ levy

1. f tax

imposta di consumo excise duty

imposta diretta/indiretta direct/indirect tax

imposta sul reddito income tax

imposta sul valore aggiunto value added tax

imposta sul fatturato sales tax

ufficio m delle imposte tax office

2. f di finestra shutter

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imposta s.f. tax; (dazio, tributo) duty, due, toll, excise; (imposizione) imposition, levy; (tassazione) taxation, assessment; (imposta locale) rate, municipal tax: imposta a cascata, multistage tax; imposta addizionale, additional tax (o supertax); imposta alla fonte, tax at source; imposta cedolare, dividend tax; imposta cedolare d'acconto, withholding tax; imposta cedolare secca, all-inclusive tax on dividends; imposta complementare, surtax; imposta di bollo, stamp duty; imposta di bollo sull'emissione di azioni, capital duty; imposta di consumo, excise duty (o tax); imposta di fabbricazione, processing tax; imposta di successione, death duty (o estate tax o inheritance tax); imposta di registro, registration tax; imposta diretta, direct tax; imposta indiretta, indirect taxation; imposta fondiaria, land tax; imposta generale sul patrimonio, (amer.) general property tax; imposta locale sui redditi (ILOR), local income tax; imposta patrimoniale, sul capitale, capital tax (o levy); imposta personale, sulla persona, personal (o head) tax (o capitation); imposta personale con ritenuta alla fonte, personal withholding tax; imposta personale sul reddito delle persone fisiche (IRPEF), personal income tax (o amer. individual income tax); imposta progressiva, graduated (o progressive) tax; imposta proporzionale, flat rate tax (o proportional taxation); imposta sugli immobili, property tax (o real estate tax); imposta sugli spettacoli, amusement tax; imposta sui beni di lusso, luxury tax; imposta sui consumi, consumption tax; imposta sui fabbricati, house-tax; imposta sui redditi delle società, delle persone giuridiche (IRPEG), corporate income tax (o corporate tax o corporation tax); imposta sul fatturato, turnover tax; imposta sul patrimonio, wealth tax; imposta sul reddito, income tax; imposta sul valore aggiunto (IVA), value added tax (VAT); imposta sulle aree fabbricabili, land tax; imposta sulle entrate indirette, excise tax; imposta sull'entrata, erariale, revenue tax; imposta sull'incremento di valore degli immobili (INVIM), property-increment tax (o increment value tax); imposta sui dividendi, capital yields tax; imposta sui redditi di capitale, sulle plusvalenze, capital gains tax // imposte non pagate, delinquent taxes; imposte doganali, customs duties //colpire con un'imposta, to tax; esente da imposta, tax-free; determinazione d'imposta, tax assessment; al netto delle, dedotte le imposte, after tax; restituzione d'imposta, tax remission (o tax refund); sgravio di imposta, tax allowance (o relief); soggetto a imposta, taxable; Ufficio delle Imposte Dirette, Inland Revenue Office (in Gran Bretagna), Internal Revenue Service (negli Stati Uniti).

imposta s.f.

1 shutter: imposta scorrevole, sliding shutter

2 (arch.) impost.

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(di finestra) shutter

(tassa) tax

- imposta indiretta sui consumi

- imposta locale sui redditi

- imposta patrimoniale

- imposta sul reddito

- imposta sul reddito delle persone fisiche

- imposta di successione

- imposta sugli utili

- imposta sul valore aggiunto

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sostantivo femminile (di finestra) (window-)shutter

sostantivo femminile tax, levy

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/im'pɔsta/

sostantivo f.

(di finestra) (window-)shutter.

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/im'pɔsta/

sostantivo f.

tax, levy; al lordo, al netto delle -e before, after tax; soggetto a imposta taxable; esente da imposta free of o from tax, tax-free

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COMPOUNDS

imposta diretta direct tax; imposta indiretta indirect tax; imposta patrimoniale capital levy, property o wealth BE tax; imposta sui redditi delle persone fisiche personal income tax; imposta sul reddito income tax; imposta sul valore aggiunto value added tax.

- after tax

- before tax

- tax free

- tax in kind

- liable to a tax

- tax on accumulation of profits

- tax on capital

- tax on income

- tax on investments

- tax on profits

- abate a tax

- abolish a tax

- collect taxes

- cut down a tax

- dodge a tax

- evade a tax

- impose a tax

- tax income

- lay a tax on

- make a tax

- pay taxes

- raise taxes

- withhold taxes

- accrued tax

- accumulated-earnings tax

- ad valorem tax

- agricultural tax

- airport tax

- alcohol tax

- amusement tax

- antichain store taxes

- apportioned tax

- assessed taxes

- burdensome taxes

- business tax

- capital-gains tax

- capital transfer tax

- capitation tax

- chain-store tax

- city tax

- "class" tax

- commodity tax

- company income tax

- consumption tax

- corporation income tax

- death tax

- deferred tax

- depreciated currency tax

- direct tax

- dividends tax

- double tax

- earmarked taxes

- effluent tax

- emergency tax

- employer payroll tax

- employment tax

- equalization tax

- estate tax

- excess profits tax

- excise tax

- export tax

- farm taxes

- farmer's tax

- federal tax

- flat-rate tax

- franchise tax

- general property tax

- gift tax

- graded tax

- graduated tax

- graduated income tax

- head tax

- hidden taxes

- highway tax

- highway users tax

- immovable property tax

- import tax

- import turnover tax

- income tax

- increment value tax

- indirect tax

- individual income tax

- inflation tax

- inheritance tax

- initiation tax

- interest equalization tax

- intermediate taxes

- land tax

- legacy tax

- local tax

- lost tax

- lump-sum tax

- luxuries tax

- matured tax

- multistage sales tax

- municipal tax

- national tax

- negative income tax

- net worth tax

- occupational tax

- payroll tax

- personal property tax

- poll tax

- privilege tax

- processing tax

- profits tax

- progressive tax

- property tax

- proportional tax

- punitive tax on retained earnings

- purchase tax

- real estate tax

- receipts tax

- regressive tax

- retail sales tax

- retirement taxes

- returnable tax

- salary tax

- sales tax

- salt tax

- security transfer taxes

- selective employment tax

- severance tax

- shared tax

- single tax

- single-stage sales tax

- social insurance tax

- social security tax

- stamp tax

- state tax

- stockholder's tax

- stock transfer tax

- sumptuary tax

- super tax

- supplemental tax

- tobacco tax

- tonnage tax

- transfer tax

- turnover tax

- undistributed profit tax

- use tax

- use tax on automobiles

- value-added tax

- wage tax

- wealth tax

- withholding tax

1) право ( суб'єктивне); праводомагання; справедлива вимога; привілей; права сторона

2) правильний; належний; правомірний, справедливий; правий ( у політичному сенсі); реакційний

3) відновлювати ( справедливість); виправляти(ся)

4) направо

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- right a wrong

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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