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May 13 is Tax Freedom Day in 2024

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The Institute for Market Economics has reported that it took 134 days for working Bulgarians to pay their debts to the treasury.

This day is almost always in the middle of May, economist Lachezar Bogdanov told BNR. According to him, there are big differences only in moments of crisis. "This is a measure of the total tax and social security burden in a country. This shows that Bulgaria is far from being some kind of tax or offshore paradise. We are not a country where the taxes are small. If you add up everything paid by business entities, citizens, property owners, everyone who carries out some kind of activity in the country, in fact a considerable burden is revealed, which is certainly more than 1/3 of what we create", Bogdanov said.



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