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.
After the election for parliament on 27 October, the caretaker government has to submit a draft of a budget for 2025 to parliament by the end of the month. Some economic analysts say the budget of the country for 2024 is the worst in the past decade. Holes..
Bulgaria's economy will grow by 2.3 per cent this year. This is according to the latest World Economic Outlook prepared by the International Monetary Fund and presented today in Washington. This is down from the Fund's April estimate, which predicted that..
In 2023, the government budget deficit was 2% of GDP or €1.9 billion. This is indicated by the final data of the National Statistical Institute. This is a significant narrowing of the budget deficit compared to the previous 3 years...
The assets of private pension funds have reached EUR 13 billion. According to data from the Financial Supervision Commission, they have increased by..
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