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                    Mazars: intergovernmental tax treaties will change
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-17 11:00:41
												                    
				
                Many domestic businesses will be affected by the fact that the Hungarian government modified intergovernmental tax treaties with several countries such as the USA and Germany, and a number of...
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                    New export opportunities for Hungarian products
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-17 10:09:49
												                    
				
                “Food exports have fallen over the past decades, but pork, poultry and fish have the required animal health certificates and we have now succeeded in regaining our market positions”, said...
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                    K&H: domestic enterprises are uncertain
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 12:39:42
												                    
				
                There is a considerable uncertainty among the businesses, because in the last year’s K&H SME confidence index is characterized by a continuous fluctuation. After the improvement of the previous quarter,...
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                    NGM: 60 thousand people checked in to the new taxes
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 12:29:00
												                    
				
                According to the processed datas, the itemized tax (kata) of the small business was chosen by about 51 thousand people, the small-business tax (kiva) was chosen by almost 10 thousand...
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                    The range of the national tobacco shops can be expanded with new products
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 12:00:09
												                    
				
                The Nemzeti Dohánykereskedelmi Nonprofit Zrt. (National Tobacco Trade Non-profit Ltd.) suggests that tobacco shops to be able to sell newspapers, mineral water, coffee, energy drinks and soft drinks. The Nemzeti...
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                    Tesco does not sell hamburgers, which contains traces of horse and pig meat
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:59:13
												                    
				
                The Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. does not markets hamburger meat in Hungary, of which the UK media reported – Tesco told MTI. Horse and pork meat products were found in British...
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                    New monthly peak with 10.7 million bankcard transactions in December
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:43:57
												                    
				
                SIA Central Europe achieved a new record in transactions in Hungary over the last year. In 2012, the hub of the SIA Group in Central Europe also focusing on card...
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                    Reward to the revealers of the false food and medicine products in China
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:25:54
												                    
				
                Reward will be given to those who provide information on substandard quality food and pharmaceuticals in China. If the case is important the revealers can get up to 300 thousand...
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                    Chinese rich prefer French luxury brands
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:15:40
												                    
				
                The wealthy Chinese people favors the French luxury brand – shows the research of the Hurun Research Institute. The organization in its regular annual report studied 551 millionaires with more...
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                    Tesco's new program for students focuses on healthy lifestyle
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:04:28
												                    
				
                Tesco has launched a nationwide program for primary school children within the compass of which it is possible to learn more about proper nutrition and health-conscious lifestyle involving sports. The...
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                    All premises were rented at the Budapest Airport
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 11:02:23
												                    
				
                Budapest Airport’s (BA) all premises found tenants at the terminals – the Budapest Airport’s operating company told MTI on Wednesday. According to the communication, the last two tenants have brought...
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                    A private equity company has bought the Office Depot chain of stores
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 10:59:48
												                    
				
                The Central-Fund Venture Capital Fund purchased the Office Depot (OD) chain of stores, which intends to stabilize its 2012 annual turnover of 4.4 billion HUF this year – the company...
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                    E-receipt in one third of US stores
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-16 09:06:14
												                    
				
                Apple has been offering this option since 2005 and now one third of US stores do the same, including Gap or Macy’s where 12 percent of customers use this opportunity....
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                    KSH measured 5.7 percent inflation in 2012
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 12:25:35
												                    
				
                In 2012, consumer prices rose by an average of 5.7 percent, compared to the previous year, and in December were 5.0 percent higher than a year earlier. Consumer prices remained...
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                    Onlinekassza.hu: The news portal helps in the connecting of cashiers to NAV
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:43:57
												                    
				
                The businesses will be informed from a new source about the connecting of cashiers to NAV. The recently launched Onlinekassza.hu news portal provides practical help to the businesses, beside the...
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                    HITA: SMEs can apply for 400 million HUF
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:40:58
												                    
				
                The National Foreign Trade Office (HITA) extended the deadline of the trade development tender with one month. New deadline is 15 February 2013. The tender aims to increase the export...
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                    Hungarian beet producers will buy the former sugar factory
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:32:27
												                    
				
                According to the informations of the Hajdú-bihari Napló, the former sugar factory in Kaba will be owned by Hungarians again. The owner the Eastern Sugár Zrt. has been trying to...
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                    Personnel changes in the leadership of Tchibo Budapest Kft.
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:20:58
												                    
				
                The Tchibo Budapest Kft. expands management team with skilled professionals in order to the dynamic development of its new business branches. The Tchibo Budapest Kft. appoints Mészáros Zsolt (44) as...
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                    Tesco relaunches its baby brand
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:01:22
												                    
				
                Tesco’s Baby brand, the “Tesco Loves Baby.” Will be relaunched. The British retail chain intends to increase its market share on the baby products market, in order to improve the...
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                    U.S. retail sales expanded
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:00:21
												                    
				
                Retail sales in the U.S increased by 0.5 percent last December instead of the expected 0.2 percent – the Ministry of Commerce announced. The bad news is that the atmosphere...
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                    A record surplus in the external trade of the Eurozone
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 11:00:01
												                    
				
                íThe aggregate external trade surplus of the Eurozone countries reached a record surplus – shows Eurostat’s data published on Tuesday. According to the first estimate of Eurostat, Eurozone’s external trade...
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                    The strawberry and blueberry may reduce the risk of heart attacks in case of women
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 10:54:59
												                    
				
                The consumption of strawberry and blueberry three times a week may reduce the risk of heart attacks in case of women by one-third – American and British researchers state in...
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                    A Ministerial Commissioner to Coordinate Preparations for the 2013 Budapest World Water Summit
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 09:56:57
												                    
				
                In October 2013, Hungary will host an international conference on water with the participation of UN member nations and institutions, and all related economic and social players (The Budapest World...
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                    Fewer and fewer people are forced to suffer from the harmful effects of passive smoking in Hungary
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-15 09:06:49
												                    
				
                The smoking habits of young people in Hungary aged between 13-15 years have been studied for the third time as part of a WHO international research project. The results published...
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                    Ipsos: we look around many places, but do not really want to choose
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 12:50:59
												                    
				
                It is one thing to look around, but real commitment means something different. On average, 44 percent of the respondents followed the various brands in social media – shows the...
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                    About 2.6 billion HUF support to increase the number of pigs
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 12:46:19
												                    
				
                The government favors commodity production and food processing in the agricultural strategy; in order to increase the number of pigs a 2.6 billion HUF supportis available – Kardeván Endre, Minister...
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                    KSH: decrease in the growth of agri producer prices
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 12:20:00
												                    
				
                Agricultural producer prices rose by 18.5 percent in November, compared to the level of a year earlier, after the 24.5 percent price increase of the previous month. The price of...
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                    The world produces four billion tons of food – half of this amount ends as garbage
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 12:10:41
												                    
				
                Nowadays we produce roughly four billion tons of food each year. It is estimated that about 30 to 50 percent (from 1.2 to 2 billion tons) never make it to...
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                    The change of cash-registers may last until the end of the year
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 11:26:24
												                    
				
                The requirements in connection with the cash-registers are still not fixed yet. The development, licensing, or testing of the right tool may last until the end of the year –...
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                    The expansion of biofuels is pushing up food prices
                    
                        
																								Date: 2013-01-14 11:25:51
												                    
				
                Europe and United States are encouraging the expansion of alternative fuels with laws in order to reduce dependence on oil. However, the plant-based fuel production can cause a drastic rise...
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