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Hungarian PM Orban Stands By 98% Severance Pay Tax
- 9 May 2012 9:00 AM
- business
Prime Minister Viktor Orban supports keeping the 98% tax imposed on public-sector severance payments, he announced after a governing caucus meeting. In the new Szell Kalman plan, the government envisaged abolishing this tax. “I surrendered to the argument of the caucus. They said it is too early to withdraw this tax,” Orban told reporters at a joint press briefing with Economy Minister Gyorgy ...
Xpat Opinion: Latest Verdict On Freedom Of Press In Hungary
- 4 May 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On May 1 MTI reported the less than welcome news that Freedom House's 2012 report on the freedom of the press degraded Hungary to the "partially free" category. Hungary received 36 negative points (legal environment 12; political environment 13; economic environment 11).
Xpat Opinion: Ukraine And Hungary: The Tymoshenko Affair
- 3 May 2012 10:30 AM
- current affairs
Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Orbán have more in common than their first name. In February 2010, only a couple of months before Orbán's political triumph, Yanukovych staged a remarkable comeback, recovering from the humiliation and disgrace he suffered in Ukraine's election of 2004. According to yesterday's Economist, since his election to the presidency Yanukovych "has mauled his country's ...
Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Pays A Visit To Budapest
- 3 May 2012 9:01 AM
- current affairs
Hungary and China signed seven agreements. The agreements were signed on Tuesday in the Parliament Building in the presence of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chinese Deputy Premier Li Keqiang.
Two Hungarians Kidnapped In Syria
- 2 May 2012 9:02 AM
- current affairs
Two Hungarians were kidnapped in Syria early Saturday, prime ministerial spokesman Péter Szijjártó told reporters. They were kidnapped when gunmen stealing equipment from the headquarters of a company in eastern Syria came across them unexpectedly.
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán Didn't Give Up On Chinese Hungarian Alliance
- 2 May 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
As I'm looking through my files it seems as if almost nothing has happened in Chinese-Hungarian relations in the last six months or so. It was in mid-November 2011 that Tamás Fellegi made his last trip to China where he negotiated with Chinese businessmen and bank presidents. After that not much could be heard about major Chinese investments in Hungary. The only things I can recall are the ...
Colling Accounting: Personal Income Tax Changes In 2012
- 2 May 2012 6:56 AM
- specials
"Tax base top-up According to the new rules in the case of incomes below the annual gross income limit of HUF 2,424,000 the annual tax rate will remain 16%, i.e. the tax base top-up (27%) is not to be considered for the purpose of tax base. In the case of incomes above that (gross HUF 202,000 / month) the 16% personal income tax advance for the part above the limit shall be calculated for a ...
Invitation: Brilliant Corners, Trafó Budapest, 28 -29 April
- 28 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Brilliant Corners" is a new piece for 10 dancers to an original score by Emanuel. The work explores the forces, both mechanical and human, which generate the choreographic substance. The ever evolving structures are a direct manifestation of these forces and as such, hold revealing qualities and possible insights.
Hungarian Chief Negotiator: Talks With IMF To Last Weeks, Size Of Aid Undecided
- 26 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary's talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on financial assistance are likely to last for weeks, under the current international financial climate, Tamas Fellegi, chief negotiator for talks, told a press conference on Wednesday.
Hungarian PM Orban Stands By 98% Severance Pay Tax
- 9 May 2012 9:00 AM
- business
Prime Minister Viktor Orban supports keeping the 98% tax imposed on public-sector severance payments, he announced after a governing caucus meeting. In the new Szell Kalman plan, the government envisaged abolishing this tax. “I surrendered to the argument of the caucus. They said it is too early to withdraw this tax,” Orban told reporters at a joint press briefing with Economy Minister Gyorgy ...
Xpat Opinion: Latest Verdict On Freedom Of Press In Hungary
- 4 May 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On May 1 MTI reported the less than welcome news that Freedom House's 2012 report on the freedom of the press degraded Hungary to the "partially free" category. Hungary received 36 negative points (legal environment 12; political environment 13; economic environment 11).
Xpat Opinion: Ukraine And Hungary: The Tymoshenko Affair
- 3 May 2012 10:30 AM
- current affairs
Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Orbán have more in common than their first name. In February 2010, only a couple of months before Orbán's political triumph, Yanukovych staged a remarkable comeback, recovering from the humiliation and disgrace he suffered in Ukraine's election of 2004. According to yesterday's Economist, since his election to the presidency Yanukovych "has mauled his country's ...
Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Pays A Visit To Budapest
- 3 May 2012 9:01 AM
- current affairs
Hungary and China signed seven agreements. The agreements were signed on Tuesday in the Parliament Building in the presence of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chinese Deputy Premier Li Keqiang.
Two Hungarians Kidnapped In Syria
- 2 May 2012 9:02 AM
- current affairs
Two Hungarians were kidnapped in Syria early Saturday, prime ministerial spokesman Péter Szijjártó told reporters. They were kidnapped when gunmen stealing equipment from the headquarters of a company in eastern Syria came across them unexpectedly.
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán Didn't Give Up On Chinese Hungarian Alliance
- 2 May 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
As I'm looking through my files it seems as if almost nothing has happened in Chinese-Hungarian relations in the last six months or so. It was in mid-November 2011 that Tamás Fellegi made his last trip to China where he negotiated with Chinese businessmen and bank presidents. After that not much could be heard about major Chinese investments in Hungary. The only things I can recall are the ...
Colling Accounting: Personal Income Tax Changes In 2012
- 2 May 2012 6:56 AM
- specials
"Tax base top-up According to the new rules in the case of incomes below the annual gross income limit of HUF 2,424,000 the annual tax rate will remain 16%, i.e. the tax base top-up (27%) is not to be considered for the purpose of tax base. In the case of incomes above that (gross HUF 202,000 / month) the 16% personal income tax advance for the part above the limit shall be calculated for a ...
Invitation: Brilliant Corners, Trafó Budapest, 28 -29 April
- 28 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Brilliant Corners" is a new piece for 10 dancers to an original score by Emanuel. The work explores the forces, both mechanical and human, which generate the choreographic substance. The ever evolving structures are a direct manifestation of these forces and as such, hold revealing qualities and possible insights.
Hungarian Chief Negotiator: Talks With IMF To Last Weeks, Size Of Aid Undecided
- 26 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary's talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on financial assistance are likely to last for weeks, under the current international financial climate, Tamas Fellegi, chief negotiator for talks, told a press conference on Wednesday.