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The date is 08.03.2019. The then businessman - Mr. Asen Vassilev, publicly claims that the effective tax on a salary of 3,000 leva in Bulgaria is nearly 50%. In this calculation, Mr. Asen Vassilev also adds the social security contributions due with the clear understanding that this money is being spent on "one big theft, garnished with ...

This weekend, the negotiations for a government between "We Continue the Change", "There Is Such a People", "Democratic Bulgaria" and the "Bulgarian Socialist Party" ended. Or at least the public part of them ended - the one that was broadcast live on the Internet. From what we saw, the negotiations generally went in relative harmony between the positions of the individual parties. Some …

Author: Jean Wilbert for fee.org Healthcare. Education. Along with others, these “goods” are considered so important that most modern governments go to great lengths to provide them to people on low incomes. Of course, we can’t really deny how important these services are. In a 2016 study, …

Our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldjev was invited to the show "More of the Day" on BNT to comment on the latest changes in the method of calculating state pensions and the state of the pension system as a whole. Vuldjev got into an argument with Ivan Neykov, one of the architects of the current system, regarding its current financial state, …