A bill aimed at slashing VAT on energy bills is being held-up at the Riigikogu – partly because the chamber is nearing the end of a four-week winter recess in any case – but also as the two coalition partners, Reform and Center, aim to patch up differences on the bill. While Reform opposed cutting…
From January, local municipality governments will begin accepting applications for energy price compensation. Many municipalities have hired additional people to prepare for the avalanche of applications set to come in. Tallinn is set to begin accepting energy price compensation applications from January 17. The city has told people to wait for February with their bills…
An almost 50% ticket rise for visitors to Estonia’s largest islands has been postponed until later this year after a meeting between local mayors and the government. The price hike was due to take effect in February and would have only affected visitors, not island residents. Minister of Economic Affairs Taavi Aas (Center) met with…
In November 2021, the turnover of retail trade enterprises was 808 million euros, data from Statistics Estonia showed. Compared to November 2020, turnover increased by 14% at constant prices. Johanna Linda Pihlak, analyst at Statistics Estonia, said turnover increased in grocery stores, in stores selling manufactured goods as well as in enterprises engaged in the…
Tallink Grupp says its Tallinn-Helsinki route shuttle vessel Megastar will go for its first regular dry-docking since the vessel first started operating on the route in January 2017 to Naantali shipyard in Finland in January 2022. The vessel will be in the dock for technical maintenance on January 11-16, 2022. During the docking the vessel…
Tartu’s city government has approved a EUR 212.8-million budget for 2022. Education features prominently, while Estonia’s second city is also seeing investment in infrastructure and in preparations for its stint as European culture capital in 2024. The budget is slightly down on 2021’s figure of EUR 215 million. Total investments come to EUR 33.6 million,…
Bank of Estonia governor Madis Muller said the tourism sector was set to be hit with a labor shortage as it began to recover from the coronavirus crisis. “The sectors related to tourism, hotels and entertainment are where the number of jobs has drastically decreased. These people have already found new jobs somewhere else. As…