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The quarterly tax on gambling machines and roulette tables will also be increased as of January 1 2010 to 500 leva and 22 000 leva, respectively.
VAT reimbursement to take between one and three months at the most, Parliament decided.
Beer, gambling and legal services could be more expensive in 2010
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry was considering an increase in the beer excise duty, sources familiar with the issue told Dnevnik.
Toyota made a global statement announced that around 436 000 vehicles worldwide are to be recalled for inspection and upgrade, including the latest Prius model which is sold in 60 countries, Bulgaria included
Builders have met all municipal requirements and will also pay to renovate parks.
Non-Bulgarians can also be nominated as long as the company they own or work for has a minimum of five per cent Bulgarian capital.
The Christmas shopping season has not driven up retail sales in Bulgaria, according to the latest data of Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office.
The global financial crisis has slowed down globalisation, but only temporarily, one study says

Yavor Nedev has been appointed head of the state National Agency of Fisheries and Aquaculture. He replaces Yordan Staikov who join the team of advisers of Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov. In 2009, Nedev was appointed by Naidenov as director of the recently-founded state Fishery Resources company, which is to manage fishing ports and operate with EU funds. He has been vice president of the Bulgarian - Swiss Chambers of Commerce as well as president of Cherno More football club in Varna. Nedev has also worked as a political scientist and university professor.
Hey Mark, now why would you be waiting in a cue, would that be snooker or more likely American Pool. The correct spelling is queu quote "A line of waiting people or vehicles" something which I recall I see regularly in the Post Office or on the streets of Sofia and something that is regularly referred to in Bulgarian "опашка” !!
I say more American English and forget about British English completely. No one ever buys a bottle of "spirits" and the waits in a "cue" for the "public transport" to take them back to their "flat". Where does that nonsense come from? I read the Echo daily and see those words used here all the time and no one living in America (and no one living here calls this county "The States) would ever use any of those words in normal conversation. You buy a bottle of liquor and then wait in line for the bus to take you home to your apartment (where hopefully your slender young Bulgaria girlfriend will have dinner waiting for you).
Balancing the budget with booze (now that is a real American terms for "spirits) is going to be a failure and it is just as well that the proposed legislation failed.
Hard liquor? I think you mean spirits.
Why do Sofia Echo writers always use American expressions. There are far more people from the British Isles buying the paper than Americans.