Your economy may change next year
Regulatory changes may affect your economy next year Tax on cash benefits for travel, the wreckage of mopeds, cheaper beer from micro-breweries and cheaper chocolate….
Next Year
DNB believes housing prices will rise again next year
In its recent forecast for the Norwegian economy, DNB Market estimates that Norwegian housing prices will rise again in 2019. Storbanken presented its updated…
Electricity grid lease increases
3 out of 4 will have to pay more on their electricity network lease next year Due to major upgrades and investments on the grid,…
Brokers predict housing price fall next year
A forecast from Property Norway shows that the price of housing will fall by 1% in 2018, but in Oslo, the price reductions are over….
Expenses will be partly taxed from next year
From next year, employees who receive an allowance when they are travelling on business must soon pay tax on parts of the amount. This is…
Lower growth for construction industry next year
Growth in the construction industry is expected to be 6.8% this year, but it will be far lower over the course of the next two…
Lower oil investments next year
Lower oil investments next year Statistics Norway estimates a fall in oil investments of 3 per cent in 2018. 2017 appears to be somewhat stronger…
Oslo can have autonomous buses next year
The bus Company Ruter in Oslo wants to buy 10-50 self-running buses this year. Before Ruter begins with autonomous buses driverless vehicles must be permitted….
The Immigration Directorate (UDI) believes there will be 14,000 asylum seekers this year and next year in total
UDI guessed there will be 7,000 asylum seekers this year, and 7,000 coming to live in Norway next year. But they stressed that the estimate…
New passport to start from April next year
National ID cards and passports in the new design are scheduled to be applied from the 1st of April next year, said the National Police…
Petrol will become up to 1 kroner ($0.11/£0.09/Eu0.10) more next year
In 2017, fuel prices are pegged to increase by 34 øre and diesel by 55 øre, but the increase might be closer to 1 kroner,…
X-ray tests for asylum seekers will continue next year despite uncertainty
Controversial X-ray examinations of underage asylum seekers will continue when the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet – NIPH) takes over age testing next year….
Asylum-forecast: 8.250 asylum arrivals next year
UDI, UNE and the police estimate that there will be between 3,000 and 12,000 asylum seekers to Norway next year and that the most likely…
Next year it would be possible to get personalized license plates
A new proposal for personal license plates are issued for consultation. If the proposal is approved, then the people could get personal license plates in…
Horne wants to have a debt register in place next year
After several years of discussion, Minister Solveig Horne wants to speed up the process of creating a debt register. She wants to have it in…
Next year schools will test the swimming abilities of all Norwegian children
Starting next year, all students in the fourth grade will tested for their swimming skills. Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen stressed to TV2 news that “all…
Handelsbanken expects negative interest rates next year
In its recent economic report Handelsbanken( the Trade Bank) predicts more trying times for the Norwegian economy and that the federal funds interests rates will…