Tag: taxes
Outgoing central bank boss urged higher property tax
Svein Gjedrem gave his last annual address as head of Norway's central bank last week, and urged higher property taxes in return for lower...
New threats linked to tax lists
Several families in Oslo's affluent Nordstrand district have received extortion letters in the post during the past several days. The letters contain threats of...
Biodiesel tax hurts Labour's image
The credibility of Norway's Labour Party on environmental issues suffered another blow this week, when it continued to promote a new tax on biodiesel...
Biodiesel tax 'a shame for Norway'
A Labour Party-led government proposal to levy a new tax on biodiesel fuel has set off howls of protest from both environmentalists and commercial...
Extortion threats linked to tax lists
More than two dozen affluent Norwegians received frightening letters in the mail over the weekend, threatening harm to their families if they failed to...
Annual tax-snooping season opens
The numbers are nearly 10 months old and they can be artificial as well, but state tax officials released the 2008 tax lists for...
Tycoon set to become tax exile
One of Norway's wealthiest, self-made men says he's moving his family and fortune to Switzerland, in protest over Norway's much-debated fortune tax. Government leaders...
Tax lists remain open for inspection
Norway's long-standing policy of revealing taxpayers' reported income, net worth and amount of taxes paid looks likely to continue. Protests have poured in since...
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