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République slovaque   The average worker in the Slovak Republic faced a tax burden on labour income (tax wedge) of 41.1% in 2013 compared with the OECD average of 35.9%.  The Slovak Republic was ranked 13 of the 34 OECD member countries in this respect. Some examples of the results reflected in the Overview charts for the Slovak Republic are: The tax burden for the single average worker decreased by 0.8 percentage points from 41.9% to 41.1% between 2000 and 2013. Between 2009 and 2013, th...

Government of Canada Launches $40 million Second Round of Housing Supply Challenge News provided by Share this article Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) (CNW Group/Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) OTTAWA, ON, April 14, 2021 /CNW/ - Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Today, the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), and Adam Va...

Getty / The Atlantic During a pandemic, public-health messaging is essential to saving lives. Media organizations have played a major role in that messaging over the past year, and not always for the better. Across the English-speaking world, many news stories about the spread of COVID-19 have been accompanied by photographs of people in outdoor settings, particularly beaches. “Many news organizations have seized upon beaches, and scenes of beachgoers, as a sign of why things are so bad in th...

Comments Off on From the horse’s mouth: chatting to MaDada One of the great joys of working on Alaveteli is that we also get to meet and collaborate with all kinds of organisations around the world who care about transparency, helping them set up their own Freedom of Information websites on our open source codebase. One such project is MaDada, the French FOI site which launched in the autumn of 2019, helping citizens navigate the bureaucracy around submitting a request for infor...

129,000 Latvian residents have received first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, 25,000 have received both vaccines RIGA, April 7 (LETA) - The first vaccine against Covid-19 has been administered to 129,128 Latvian residents, while 25,142 residents have received both vaccines, according to the National Health Service (NVD) data. NVD has published the latest data on Latvias Open Data portal on Wednesday morning. 7,128 people were vaccinated during four Easter holidays, with the largest number of people v...

- Short-term rental operators in Toronto must file and pay the Municipal Accommodation Tax for the 2021 first quarter by April 30. - Short-term rental operators in Toronto must file and pay the Municipal Accommodation Tax for the 2021 first quarter by April 30 Short-term rental operators renting homes or rooms for periods of less than 28 consecutive days must be registered with the City of Toronto. In addition, operators need to collect and pay a four per cent Municipal Accommodation Tax (MAT) ...

eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The Lake Placid Olympic Center is the headquarters of the New York State Olympic Regional development Authority. (Enterprise photo — Andy Flynn) LAKE PLACID — For more than seven years, the state Olympic Regional Development Authority hasn’t complied with an executive order requiring that it publish data on the state’s Open Data website, an audit by the state comptroller’s office found. The comptroller’s office audited ORDA last year and rel...

Nineteen years ago, a group of international researchers met in Budapest to discuss a persistent problem. While experts published an enormous amount of scientific and scholarly material, few of these works were accessible. New research remained locked behind paywalls run by academic journals. The result was researchers struggled to learn from one another. They could not build on one another’s findings to achieve new insights. In response to these problems, the group developed the Budapest Ope...

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