16 percent of tax payers in Bulgaria provide 90 percent of all taxes, submitted in the declarations for 2007, the National Income Agency announced. 125 thousand Bulgarians have declared personal income of over 7 200 levs for last year.The sum, which they must submit in the budget, is over 152 million levs.Calculations show that each of these taxpayers must submit an average of over 1200 levs. още »

The Bulgarian minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov will announce today who is the chosen strategic partner for the construction of the second nuclear power plant (NPP) in Bulgaria – NPP “Belene”.The candidates for participation in the biggest energy project in Bulgaria are Electrabel and “RWE”. The strategic partner will participate with 49%. още »

The aviation company “Hemus air” will buy over 63 thousand sq.m, property of Sofia airport. The aim of the sale, approved today by the government, is on this territory service and cargo of airplanes and engineering systems to be implemented. It is also expected a customs office to be built there. A joint project between Lufthansa technique JSC and “Hemus air” will be realized on this area. още »

The credit agency Moody's reduced the prospect on the rating of deposits in foreign currency of three Bulgarian banks. The prospects of DSK Bank, "Raiffeisen Bulgaria" and "Pireos Bank" are changed from positive to stable, Financial Mirror announces. The ratings of the rest of the banks, operating on the Bulgarian market have not changed.This rating follows Moody's decision to change Bulgaria's prospect for deposits in foreign currency from positive to stable in the next week. още »

In 2007 Bulgarian export to Azerbaijan reached 20 million Euro, compared to 10 million Euro in 2006. This was announced by the deputy-minister of Economy Valentin Ivanov during the Bulgarian-Azeri business forum carried out simultaneously with the third session of the Bulgarian-Azeri intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation.There is a potential for even bigger increase of export of products in the fields of machine building, electronics, electric technology, equipment for the food industry, food products, pharmaceutics, perfumery. още »

Today the Bulgarian National Bank increased the base rate to 5,38 percent, BNB announced. The base rate increases by 0,15 percent compared to September.Compared to October 2007, when the base rate was 4.24 percent, the increase is 1.14 percent.For the period January-October 2008 the base rate has increased by 0.7 percent, following a tendency of gradual increase. още »

The major market for investors in the Bulgarian economy remains the real estate market and not the stock exchange. This was announced by Georgi Stoev from "Industry Watch" on "Darik Kafe". His forecast is that the segment of vacation properties is the one, which will be most affected by the financial crisis.According to Stoev, the people who save money in Bulgaria depend mostly on their homes as investment number one and investment number two is bank deposits. още »

A wind-generator park for 150 million euro will be built in Stara Planina above the village of Dulgi del, Georgi Damiyanovo municipality by the Danish company “Greentech”. This announced the mayor of the municipality Dilyan Dimitrov, cited by BNR.It is expected by the end of October the company to obtain the construction permit. The municipality and the investor have registered a joint company which to construct the park. още »

The price of natural gas increases by nearly 24% as of today after a decision by DKEVR (State commission for energy and water regulation). There will be another price increase in January by about 21%. With yesterday's decision the value of "blue fuel" will be 538,66 levs for 1000 cubic meters without VAT. The increase is by 103,86 levs over the current price of "Bulgargaz" for the "blue fuel", which is 434. още »