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Flat 25% tax urged for foreign workers

Among the changes in the conservative coalition government's revised state budget proposal on Tuesday is a simplification of income tax rules for foreign workers....

Revised budget taps less from Oil Fund

Finance Minister Siv Jensen has long wanted to invest more of Norway's oil revenues at home, in everything from better roads to more nursing...

Tax revenue boom ‘signals optimism’

Finance Minister Siv Jensen has reason to smile after a long and difficult winter: New figures show a boom in unexpected tax revenue rolling...

Listhaug responds, angers even more

UPDATED: Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug, under pressure to apologize for claiming on Facebook that Norway's Labour Party puts terrorists' rights above national security, has...

Budget talks off to a ‘tough’ start

Prime Minister Erna Solberg knew this year's state budget conference would be "tough" even without all the political conflict swirling around her. Her government...

Solberg suddenly loses confidence

NEWS ANALYSIS: As if leading annual state budget negotiations wasn't demanding enough, Prime Minister Erna Solberg had to do so this week while her...

Fight goes on over defense compromise

A day after Parliament finally agreed on a new defense program for Norway, two MPs from the otherwise allied Labour and Center parties kept...

Budget agreement saves government

UPDATED: Norway's conservative minority government coalition won support for its state budget proposal from the two other non-socialist parties in Parliament late Wednesday. The...

Little property tax relief in state budget

Even though Norway's conservative government coalition opposes property tax, it didn't do anything to prevent local governments from imposing it in the state budget....

Critics blast lack of Oil Fund ‘buffers’

Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund known as the "Oil Fund" is far too vulnerable to swings in the financial markets, argue critics. They claim...
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