The recently signed convention with Ireland on the avoidance of double taxation shall facilitate the expanding of Kazakhstan’s flag carrier’s route network. This was announced by the country’s Deputy Minister of Finance Kanat Baedilov during the meeting of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Senate on December 26. The meeting discussed the draft law…
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air intends to launch new London-Lviv flights from May 1, 2018, not September 1 as previously announced, according to the renewed airline reservation system. The company has confirmed this information. The flights will be performed three times a week. In London, the flights will be carried out from Luton airport located…
Low-cost airline Wizz Air has postponed the launch of flights from Kyiv to Lisbon, Portugal, and Tallinn, Estonia, by two months: from April 19 to June 21, 2018. Air’s call center confirmed this information, however, it did not mention the cause behind the decision. In addition to the postponement of the launch of the new…
The lower house of the Tajik parliament ratified the financing agreement under the project “Nurek HPP Rehabilitation, Phase 1” on December 24. The agreement was signed between the Republic of Tajikistan and the International Development Association (IDA) in June. “IDA will allocate $225 million for the implementation of this project, of which $57 million as…
Prime Minister Juri Ratas said no new taxes would be implemented next year, but added that he would like to increase the quota of workforce coming from outside the European Union. “I do not think it right to make new decisions concerning the tax policy a year before the end of this composition of the…
Uzbekistan and Iran considered transit cargo transportation, as the Uzbek Foreign Trade Ministry hosted a meeting with Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade of Iran Mojtaba Khosrotaj. The sides mulled the current state and prospects of trade and economic cooperation, as well as further cooperation in the field of transport and transit cargo transportation.…
The United States has decided to suspend a number of preferences regarding duty-free trade with Ukraine, according to a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, published on the White House’s website. “Pursuant to section 502(d)(3) of the Trade Act of 1974,…