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Turkey's fertility rate drops in 2018
Turkey's fertility rate reached 1.99 children in 2018, remaining below population's replacement level of 2.10, said the country's statistical authority on July 5.
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Why Bulgaria Could Appeal to Gambling Titans
In many ways, the iGaming market in the UK is the most mature and lucrative in the whole of Europe. It certainly boasts an incredible regulatory framework, for example, whilst producing an impressive gross gaming yield (GGY) of £14.5 billion in the year ending September 2018.
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Property value gap grows between different zones
The Finance Ministry's blueprint for the adjustment of properties' taxable rates (known as "objective values") provides for hikes to the zone rates in the center of Athens and reductions in less well-off areas of the capital.
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Gender equality can boost fertility rates, research says
Middle-class women can provide the solution to Greece's acute demographic problem if they are offered the right support by the state, said Dionysis Balourdos, research director at the National Center for Social Research (EKKE).
More hikes are expected in objective values
The Finance Ministry is expected within the month to invite chartered property surveyors to express their interest in the process of a new adjustment of property rates used for tax purposes, known as "objective values," which will go into force at the end of June.
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IMF report: Economic crisis hit fertility rates in Greece
Fertility rates in Greece, that is, the average number of children Greek women have, dipped from 1.5 to about 1.3 during its eight-year economic crisis (2008-2016), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its World Economic Outlook, issued on Wednesday.
Turkey's total fertility rate falls to 2.07 in 2017
Turkey's total fertility rate, the average number of live births that a woman has, fell to 2.07 per woman in 2017, according to data released by Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).
ENFIA hikes for 1 mln owners
The data on the adjusted property rates used for tax purposes (known as "objective values") that the Finance Ministry released on Tuesday showed that for 946,671 households and 7,126 enterprises, the Single Property Tax (ENFIA) will grow this year by up to 200 euros, or a little more in some cases.
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New Greek property zone rates announced
The ministerial decision announcing the adjusted new zone rates at which property owners in Greece will be taxed were announced on Tuesday morning and will be going to Parliament for approval by Wednesday.
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Finance Ministry considers phasing in property tax rise in two stages
The Finance Ministry is examining new strategies regarding the new "objective values" (property rates used for tax purposes), as the plan for two separate sets of values for each property appears to be a nonstarter, while the country's creditors are pushing for an automatic mechanism to revise the rates.