Half of the annual income of every Bulgarian is returned to the treasury as a personal tax burden. This is what calculations of economists from the Institute for Market Economics show. Tax and social security burden of every working Bulgarian reaches 45 percent of what they earn working, experts say. Add municipal taxes to that and the percentage becomes close to 50%. The heaviest burden comes from insurance, VAT and excise duty.
"The most important thing for a caretaker prime minister is to ensure that fair and transparent elections are held and well-known political faces will not bring credibility to the process." This is what Speaker of Parliament Raya Nazaryan from GERB said..
After the parliamentary group of the ITN party returned the third mandate for forming a government unfulfilled, President Rumen Radev is continuing with the procedure of appointing a caretaker government and scheduling a seventh early parliamentary..
Bulgaria introduces mandatory disinfection of vehicles at all border crossings because of outbreaks of small ruminant plague in Northern Greece. The Bulgarian authorities have sent notification letters to all neighbouring countries..
Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev stated that he will accept a proposal to be caretaker PM again if President Rumen Radev assigns him this..
A new flare-up of the big wildfire on the Greek side of Slavyanka mountain has crossed the border into Bulgaria, extending the perimeter of the fire..
The exhibition "Tales of Gold and Silver" of the National History Museum, prepared for the 100th anniversary of the State Cultural..
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