ALTAX comes with a new political-economic paper where it presents historical statistical facts from the year 2000 until today on the sustainability of the public debt, which is considered a key element in this paper, based a lot on the...
Year-on-year inflation in the OECD as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained broadly stable at 5.8% in March 2024, after 5.7% in February (Figures 1 and 2). Headline inflation fell in 19 OECD countries with the largest...
The tax burden is a product of the revenues collected by the central tax administration and the customs administration, from the own revenues of the municipalities, as well as the collections for pension contributions.All revenues together make up the comprehensive...
For reasons of planning expenses on the basis of stable incomes, a conservative approach has been applied to the evaluation of the effect of these measures. Consequently, spending will be able to be kept at a manageable level, and with...
Municipalities collect their own revenues in two forms: (a) as revenues collected directly by the municipality, as an activity of the municipality, and (b) as revenues collected from the central level (in the following text, indirect revenues) which are transferred...
In an interview that Mr. Gjokutaj told China Foreign Radio about the economic impact of the Chinese president's visit to Europe that "this visit comes in the framework of a relationship which, after 5 years of President Xi Jinping's...
Today, ALTAX comes to all its readers and followers with the important thematic publication Tax Burden in the Western Balkans - Albania, Kosovo...Tax Freedom Day 2024. This report deals with the tax burden in the Western Balkans region and...
The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] expanded by 1.7% real year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2023, slowing from a 1.9% annual growth in the third quarter (see Tab. 4). In seasonally adjusted terms, fourth-quarter GDP rose 1.1%...
Regarding the budget revenues in the countries of the Western Balkans (WB6), both in size and trend there are big differences between them. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro manage to enter the budget (taxes and loans) over 40% of...
Economic growth in 2023 is estimated at 3.5%, supported by strong government consumption and some influential sectors such as construction and tourism and energy exports (see Table).The country had an exceptionally good tourist season in 2023, with the result that...
