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One billion HUF VAT fraud in the Slovak milk business
Date: 2014-01-08 11:11:59
Tax investigators unveiled a well-functioning criminal organization in Szolnok. The criminal organization was selling Slovakian milk, and defrauded the state with hundreds of millions of HUF. Three men and a...
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The Czech Budvar brewed a record amount of beer last year
Date: 2014-01-08 11:08:07
The Czech Budvar brewery brewed a record amount, 1.424 million hectoliters of beer in 2013. On an annual basis this is a 6.2 percent increase, and it is the largest...
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Israel would reduce high food prices with market liberalization
Date: 2014-01-08 11:07:13
Food prices are 25 percent higher in Israel than in the European Union, therefore they plan the liberalization of the market – the Iszrael Hajom wrote on Wednesday. The new...
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One hundred and forty kilograms of cocaine among the bananas
Date: 2014-01-08 11:00:14
A total of 140 kilograms of cocaine was found in banana cartons in Berlin and Brandenburg. According to the communication of the police, the smugglers probably committed a logistical error....
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37871.png From Greece to Germany: consumers changed their spending to save money
Date: 2014-01-08 10:52:30
According to a Nielsen survey, in the 3rd quarter of 2013 eight out of ten Hungarians changed their spending habits to save money. The average of 31 European countries in...
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Ipsos: “…time seems to stand still”
Date: 2014-01-07 12:57:08
Ipsos’ continuous survey carried out in 24 countries shows that the people's economy mood remained unchanged to the previous year. 37 percent of the respondents consider their country’s results as...
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The MVM launched a unique application for the energy conscious domestic businesses
Date: 2014-01-07 12:40:24
“Energy efficiency is becoming a competitive issue” – Németh Lászlóné, Minister for National Development and the patronage of MVM’s application told. The MVM Partner Zrt., which is the subsidiary of...
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NGM would bound the support of online cash register to a deadline
Date: 2014-01-07 12:35:49
The National Economy Ministry (NGM) proposes that the deadline for state aid to the exchange of the cash register to be 31 January 2014. The Ministry in its communication sent...
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The unusual warmth has not damaged the orchards yet
Date: 2014-01-07 12:22:26
The unusually warm weather in December and January has not been damaged the orchards yet, the buds are having a rest – Mártonffy Béla, president of the Hungarian Fruit and...
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End of masculine internet in Hungary?
Date: 2014-01-07 12:21:50
The “male dominance” that was experienced in the previous years almost completely disappeared from the online world. In Hungary, the internet habits of men and women broadly consistent with the...
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VM: more then a hundred winning applicants are promoting Hungarikums
Date: 2014-01-07 12:21:50
More then a hundred winning applicants are promoting Hungarikums and the national values – the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) told on Tuesday. The Ministry of Rural Development, announced an...
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FruitVeB: the changing of the thermal water regulation will reduce the burdens
Date: 2014-01-07 12:20:57
The FruitVeB welcomes the amendments of the regulation governing the use of thermal water. The FruitVeb, considered the regulation amendment, particularly important in the point of view of the vegetable...
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The market moves towards cheaper alcohol
Date: 2014-01-07 12:20:25
The demand continues to grow towards cheaper, but quality wines and spirits at the Budapest-based IFDT Kft. The trend is so clear that the company distributes four times as many...
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Meat market can be whitened as the result of the VAT cut
Date: 2014-01-06 12:45:09
Professional participants of the meat sector are urging the continuitation of the VAT cut, after the VAT on living and carcassed pigs decreased from 27 to 5 percent, from 1...
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Support can also be claimed for the exchange of the cash registers this year
Date: 2014-01-06 12:38:50
According to the the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) the support can be claimed on the 1411 formula. The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) in its rommunication recalls...
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The lower income groups spend more on tobacco products
Date: 2014-01-06 12:20:14
More than 60 percent of the smokers in Budapest are satisfied with the number and the location of the tobacco shops, while 55 percent of the people living in villages...
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The government is non-orthodox in the cash register case
Date: 2014-01-06 12:10:38
The government delays the deadline of the cash register replacement. The original deadline would have been 31 December 2013, but as Varga Mihály, Minister of National Economy told at a...
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Eurozone’s investor sentiment is on its multi-annual peak
Date: 2014-01-06 11:58:36
Eurozone’s investor sentiment is on its thirty-three-month peak – the Berlin-based Sentix Economic Research Institute announced on Monday. The sentiment index is compiled on the basis of intwerviews with nearly...
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The amount of declared food chain management fees has increased
Date: 2014-01-06 11:32:41
The amount of declared food chain management fees has increased in 2013 by 3-4 percent – the Napi Gazdaság wrote on the basis of the communication of the National Food...
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The National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre operates from 1 January
Date: 2014-01-06 11:12:52
The National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre (NAIK) has started its operations on 1 January, 2014. The Gödöllő-based center was established with the coordination of the operations of thirteen research...
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Recent Chinese food scandal: puddle water in lamb meat
Date: 2014-01-06 11:00:44
Puddle water was injected to lamb meat in Canton province South China to increase the weight of the product to gain higher price – the Chinese Central Television, the CCTV...
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Chestnut jam from the Mecsekalja
Date: 2014-01-06 10:59:02
Chestnut jam is available again in the Mecsekalja since 2009. Perhaps the hardest to cook home cooked jam is made of chestnuts from Zengővárkony. The first chestnut jam, made of...
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A butter shortage isn’t unlikely
Date: 2014-01-06 10:00:46
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI)’s market report reveals that according to KSH data there were 2.892 million pigs (776,000 at individual farms and 2.116 million at economic...
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Frankfurter consumption increases by one-third at year-end
Date: 2014-01-03 13:12:11
The hit product of New Year's Eve continues to be frankfurters. In December, more than half of all households are buying one-third more of it, a total of 80 dekagrammes...
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Only 10 percent of Hungarians drink wine daily
Date: 2014-01-03 13:00:22
Today, only 10 percent of Hungarians consider themselves as regular daily wine consumers, while 10 years ago this figure was 19.1 percent – the recent survey of Varga Winery shows....
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Bisnode: the bill payment discipline of the companies improved in 2013
Date: 2014-01-03 12:25:56
Bill payment discipline improved in 2013 among the Hungarian companies. Currently they pay 62 percent of their bills on time, while a year earlier the rate was only 56 percent...
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Cash registers – NGM: the official price of data transfer is lower than the market price
Date: 2014-01-03 12:21:09
The official price of data transfer announced on the online cash registers is lower than the market price – the Ministry of National Economy (MNE) told MTI on Thursday. According...
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According to the Hungarian entrepreneurs, the way out is collaboration
Date: 2014-01-03 12:20:44
The National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers (VOSZ), the Üzleti Klinika (Business Clinic) and the Nagykermarketing (Wholesale Marketing) carried out a survey in November 2013, with the involvement of 6300...
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Trips organized to product presentations is notifiable from January
Date: 2014-01-03 12:17:17
The dealer is required to report trips organized with the aim of product distributions from January – the government decree was published on Monday in the Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Official...
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Pintér István: the consumer protection authority performed well last year
Date: 2014-01-03 12:15:41
The National Consumer Protection Authority (NFH) was able to carry out all of the necessary checks in all sectors this year – Pintér István, the Director of the National Consumer...
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