#budget

The government plans to go ahead with taxation reform after 20 years, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’s environmental ...

The Renewable Energy Sources Fund will turn another deficit next year, and will again need to tap into its reserves to stay afloat. The fund’s budget for 2022 was discussed ...

The government said on Monday it will look into the possibility of price caps on essential goods, in a bid to deal with inflationary trends. Speaking in parliament during the ...

The House plenum on Thursday gave the nod to an extra €92 million in government spending until the end of the year, over and above the approved budget for fiscal 2021, the ...

The 2022 budget will mark the move to recovery, which will cover the ground lost in 2020, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday as the government plans to end pandemic support ...

The budget of the national health scheme (Gesy) remained within initial estimates, counting €794.7m for the period of January to August despite the pandemic, an HIO official said on Saturday. ...

The coming months, and 2022 will be crucial for ensuring the sustainability of public finances, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has said. His ministry is currently working on the state budget but ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a supplementary budget worth around €148.5m to cover additional expenditure in various sectors. The extra spending concerns €20m for support schemes for workers and businesses ...

The US State Department has proposed raising its contribution to UN peacekeeping by some $472 million for 2022, which will include an additional $5.8m for Unficyp, reports said on Saturday. According to ...

Four in 10 people in Cyprus do not budget for their expenses, according to a survey by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) which laid out the problem of low financial ...

The government on said Monday that opposition Diko offered nothing of substance and raised obstacles to policies designed to support people, as it fought back criticism over the handling of ...

Parliament on Thursday passed the 2021 budgets for two agencies that are key components of the national health scheme (Gesy), also giving the nod to the balance sheets of several semi-governmental ...

With 29 votes for and 26 against, the House on Thursday passed the revised state budget for 2021, unlocking hundreds in millions earmarked for coronavirus relief to businesses and households. The ballot went ...

The House on Thursday will vote on the revised state budget for this year that is expected to be approved after Edek and the Solidarity Movement said they would back ...

The cabinet authorised the justice minister on Wednesday to make any changes necessary to a bill on the operation of courts so that it includes cases relating to loans and ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos will meet President Nicos Anastasiades at 10am to discuss the revised state budget for 2021, which is scheduled to be put to the vote on Thursday. The ...

The government on Tuesday submitted to parliament the amended state budget for 2021, along with a plea to lawmakers to pass the bill so as not to jeopardise the coronavirus-related relief ...

By Les Manison The state budget is the main instrument for allocating resources geared to meet the government’s policy objectives and reforms. And with the devastating impact of the ...

If opposition parties want there to be early elections, they should just say so, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. He was speaking during an interview with Phileleftheros which focused ...