Some products and services will increase in price next year with incomes rising only slowly.
Council rents will go up 0.34% in 2017, the highest increase since 2014 and from February next year, sugary-filled soft drinks will increase in price by up to 30 cents for each 1.5 litre bottle due to the new sugar tax.
Tobacco price will increase 10 cents next year, another tax rise, but the tax on electronic cigarettes will be reduced by half.
Annual car tax will go up 0.8% on average but for bigger, polluting vehicles the increases will be between 6.5% and 8.8%.
MEO hiked prices by 2.5% this November with NOS and Vodafone saying that no increase is planned for next year.
Portugal’s already ruinously high electricity rates will rise another 1.25% for domestic consumers as of January 1st, an increase of 57 cents on an average monthly invoice of €47.
Gas prices also will increase from January 1 next year, as well as road tolls after three years of “virtually no change.”
Milk and bread prices will stay level.
