• Tax man slams government cuts, forced service reductions

    Legally-mandated service provision is in danger, according to the head of the Tax Administration.

  • Check the list: These are the main changes as the government cuts spending and raises taxes

    Students will no longer receive general housing benefits, high-earners and pensioners will pay more tax and VAT will increase by 1.5 percentage points.

  • Taxes and governance

    It’s tax filing month, and the government as usual launched a campaign to inform the public about meeting the deadline for filing tax returns.

  • HS: Finnish government to raise value-added tax, tax burden of pensioners

    The government will start its two-day framework session today, with the objective of agreeing on spending cuts and tax increases worth a total of three billion euros.

  • Government urged to back hospitals

    Bryn Matongo and Masimba Makwembere STAFF WRITERS HEALTH experts have implored authorities to give more support to the country’s public hospitals. This To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions

  • Advocates urge government to prioritize women's issues

    Executive Director of the Ark Foundation, Dr Angela Dwamena Aboagye, has called upon the government to give greater attention to issues concerning women and girls, particularly focusing on empowerment and addressing crimes against women. She made the call at a round-table engagement organised by the Springboard Road Show Foundation in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, […]

  • Hawaii residents could see biggest tax cut yet

    Hawaii taxpayers could be seeing phased state income tax cuts that over eight years amount to the biggest reduction in state history.

  • Opposition parties file confidence motion over government's budget cuts

    The interpellation question submitted by the Centre Party and Movement Now criticises the government's "panic package."

  • Gov. Kelly vetoes tax cut, proposes new plan

    TOPEKA (AP) - Kansas' Democratic governor on Wednesday vetoed a broad package of tax cuts for the second time in three months, describing it as “too expensive” despite the bipartisan support it enjoyed in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Gov. Laura Kelly and her staff had signaled that she had misgivings about a package of income, sales and property []

  • Mental health group's boss skewers government's 'devastating' cuts

    The cuts mean that by 2027, social welfare organisations are expected to lose around 130 million euros out of the 400 million euros in annual grants they have received.

  • Kemp signs measure to speed up Georgia's income tax cut

    (The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a series of tax bills Thursday, including a measure to speed up a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate. House Bill 1015 lowers the individual income tax rate from 5.49% to 5.39% for the tax years starting Jan. 1, 2024. It decreases the rate by 0.1% annually starting Jan. 1, 2025, until it reaches 4.99%. "Georgians work hard to earn a living, and they should keep more of what they earn," Tony West,...

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...