Tax revenues continue to rise

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Norway's fiscal accounts show total tax revenues including July this year at NOK 145.5 billion, up NOK 13.8 billion or 10.4 per cent from the same period last year. Of this amount, municipalities (local governments) will see tax revenues rise by nearly NOK 1.8 billion or 5.7 per cent, while the tax equalisation fund will grow by 22.6 per cent. Oil taxes are up 21 per cent.

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News Statistics

Fiscal account statistics, January-July 1996.
Statistics are published in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Principal revenue sums are available in the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Data on tax revenues in the individual municipalities is published in the series Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Regional Statistics. More information: Tove Brynildsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 72, e-mail: tbr@ssb.no or Hjørdis Eeg-Henriksen, tel. +47 21 09 45 27, e-mail, heh@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue 34, 1996