Continued high growth in tax revenues

Tax receipts from January to June this year totalled nearly NOK 138 billion in Norway, up 16 per cent compared to the same period last year. Ordinary taxes on income and wealth received by municipalities (local governments) and counties rose by 6.3 and 5.1 per cent, respectively.

Tax income growth distributed among counties, excluding the continental shelf, has risen by NOK 10 billion or 9.1 per cent so far this year compared to 1996. Growth has been generally high throughout the country. Oslo has shown particularly strong growth with 15.6 per cent, followed by Sør-Trøndelag and Vest-Agder counties with respective increases of 9.4 and 8.8 per cent. The strong growth in tax revenues in Oslo is mainly due to the increase in corporation and payroll taxes. Sogn og Fjordane and Finnmark counties have seen the slowest growth, with respectively 4.2 and 4.1 per cent.

New Statistics

Tax accounts statistics, January-June 1997.
Statistics are published in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Main aggregates are available in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Data on tax receipts of individual local governments are published in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Regional Statistics. More information: Tove Brynhildsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 72, e-mail: tbr@ssb.no, Hjørdis Eeg-Henriksen, tel. +47 21 09 45 27, e-mail: heh@ssb.no or Rune Bye, tel. +47 21 09 45 14, e-mail: rby@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 28, 1997