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– Instead of breaking even, the money comes (Today’s business)
They moved to Switzerland in protest: this is how tax refugees live. The seas
He wants a tax bomb for wealth (Dagbladet Borsen)
Rødt will take tax measures that will cost some of Norway’s wealthiest several hundred million. – Many tax holes in the system that need to be closed, says Marie Sneve Martinussen. The seas
Vedum: – Taxes and fees have not increased much since 2001 (NTB)
The last time we had a tax and fee hike as big as now was in 2001, says the finance minister. This causes the FRP to rail against the government. The seas
Swiss refugees: must provide billions in guarantee on unrealized gains (E24)
Kjell Inge Røkke and other wealthy people who go to Switzerland have to grant a tax lien on their unrealized gains. Even before the fall rush to move, the Norwegian Revenue Agency had nearly 900 million NOK in such mortgages. The seas
Øystein Stray Spetalen is right: the price of Norwegian energy is determined by desperate German brokers. (Norwegian debate. By Knut Weberg) (Nettavisen)
We are already tied up, says the government. And perhaps it is an indissoluble Gordian knot. I remind you how it was solved. Has been cut. The seas
Energy analysts believe electricity prices will remain below NOK 2 for the rest of the winter (Agderposten)
Energy analyst Tor Reier Lilleholt expects an average electricity price below NOK 2 in southern Norway for the rest of the winter. In December, the price of electricity in Southern Norway fluctuated from NOK 6-7 per kWh at the beginning of the month to NOK 1-2 at Christmas time. The seas
It is now as expensive to load as it is to fill up with petrol and diesel (Pluss online newspaper)
Power support has become a major benefit for electric cars. The seas
Triple your income from saving electricity: – Huge interest (NRK)
Companies are reporting a large influx of Norwegians who want to cap their electricity bills. The seas
The MDG calls on the government to gain momentum and help industry reduce climate change (NRK)
Yara’s Porsgrunn plant is one of the most CO₂-emitting places in Norway. Now they want the authorities to take action to reduce large emissions. – They should understand that, says MDG. The seas
Now the controversial salmon tax is being introduced: the industry is calling for a Faroese model (NRK)
On January 1, the new “salmon tax” comes into force. The salmon industry is asking for a postponement: it would prefer to have a Faroese model. The seas
The central bank governor: – If we had looked at inflation with only one eye, we would have raised the interest rate more and we would have done it faster (Today’s business)
Increasingly high interest rates take away the purchasing power from people who are already struggling with sky-high prices. Central bank governor Ida Wolden Bache admits she feels a great deal of responsibility. The seas
This is what real estate market experts think in 2023 (Finansavisen)
Correctly predicting house prices is an art that few are able to repeat. Either way, experts disagree, and predictions for 2023 vary more than ever. The seas
Want to flip Norway’s most expensive apartment – you can avoid a million in taxes (E24)
Footballer and real estate investor Håvard Nordtveit wants NOK 90 million for an apartment he bought for NOK 76 million in the autumn. Nordtveit took a step that could save him millions of dollars. The seas
I can’t get a mortgage – I have too many children (NRK)
Rama Jama could save thousands in housing costs by purchasing an apartment. But he doesn’t get an initial loan from Husbanken. The seas
I think lower electricity bills will drive cabin prices up again in the spring :- Right now it’s a buyer’s market (Today’s business)
– Prices are falling, says booth analyst Carl Christian Mathiesen in the Prognosesenteret. But he expects prices in the vacation rental market to rise again in the spring when electricity bills aren’t so high. The seas
– Special tax on skills (Finansavisen)
– What the government is basically doing is introducing a special tax on skills, says Amesto AccountHouse managing director Siri Nilssen of the employer tax hike. The seas
Emil (25) reported that he moved from the village. The City is happy about it (NRK)
The students denounce the movement to secure the municipality’s millions: – It could have been decisive, says the mayor. The seas
The Norwegian battery industry is on the brink (post by Tore Tennøe, director, and Erik Hagen, project manager, Norwegian Technology Council) (Dagens Næringsliv)
The battery market in Europe is about to take off. Norway needs to invest energy, money and expertise to join. The seas
– Billionaire quota must be used for the development of new technologies (Finansavisen)
Norway can receive €200-300 million annually in climate allowances for Norwegian vessels from the EU. The seas
Gas lessons (Head of Trygve Hegnar, Finansavisen) The German energy company Uniper is currently in the process of being taken over by the German state. Bankruptcy was a possibility, but Germany would have preferred to accept a gas leak or a gas deal that could cost taxpayers NOK 500 billion rather than liquidation. “Germany’s billion-dollar grave,” writes Wirtschaftswoche. Here you can learn from Lehman’s failure in 2008, when this bank was “too big to fail”. Thousands of other companies that have operated in Russia have also had to take this lesson into their own hands. One cannot depend economically on a regime of bandits with President Vladimir Putin at the helm. And: fixed-price contracts without hedging don’t work (think about it, Minister Jan Chr. Vestre). The seas
NHO: Both people and companies get supplies of necessary goods (NTB)
Half of the population is planning or has acquired in the past two years increased stockpiles of food and needed medicines, according to a survey by the NHO. The seas
Price wars threatened to cripple textile supplies to Norwegian hospitals (Today’s business)
The soap supplier more than doubled its prices and terminated the contract with immediate effect. Deliveries of bed linen and textiles to Norwegian hospitals and institutions were in jeopardy before the court set foot. The seas
The police prestige project is in shambles: lack of money is to blame (E24)
New specialists in each police district should make the police better at recovering criminal money. Many of the specialists are still missing, the E24 mapping shows. The seas
Merry Christmas, my darling! (Today’s business)
The tax commission’s report came out just before Christmas with a lot of shiny and nice new proposals… that were scrapped. The seas
More people, but losing ground on men’s incomes (Capital)
More and more women are becoming partners in the 100 largest law firms in the country, and the median income is rising from previous years. But men’s income increases even more. The seas
Henrik waited almost four months for sick pay: – Does Norway care more about money than people? (The online newspaper)
She adds that she tried to explain the situation to the children, saying ‘we’d rather have some fun after Christmas, now that Norway is not working as it should and hasn’t given us any money’, to which the eldest daughter is said to have replied:- Norway cares more about money than people, right? The seas
The Minister of Labor on the reimbursement of disability benefits: – Unfair and unreasonable (NRK)
Disabled people who get a full-time job have to repay their social security benefits at the beginning of the year. The NAV director defines the rules as strict and the labor minister is considering changing them. The seas
Odin (29) thinks Nav wasted his Christmas space on mandatory Netflix viewing: – Kind of pointless (The online newspaper)
Nav replies that they will investigate the matter, after an initiative in Trondheim received a lot of attention on Twitter. The seas
Gas from Russia reaches Europe via the Norwegian Sea (NRK)
Russia’s LNG gas exports to Europe increased sharply in 2022, despite sanctions following the war in Ukraine. The seas
Biden’s signing secures funding for 2023 (NTB)
US President Joe Biden has signed into law a law guaranteeing funding for the federal state apparatus for the budget year ending September 2023. The seas
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