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Some homeowners in Oslo will have to pay more in property taxes next year

People who own homes in Oslo worth more than 6 million kroner will have to pay more in property tax next year, the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reports.

Published: 12 November 2022 14:31 CET
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Despite falling house prices and unchanged tax rates, many homeowners in Oslo will have to pay more in property taxes soon.

The newspaper has calculated that some homeowners in Oslo will have to pay significantly higher property tax in 2023 than this year.

An Oslo home with a listed value of six million kroner, according to this year’s tax assessment, will see its property tax tripled next year, from 600 kroner to just over 1,800 kroner.

A home with an estimated value of eight million kroner will have its property tax increased from 4,800 kroner to 6,480 kroner.

The reason for the increase is not political – the calculation of housing value by Statistics Norway (SSB) and the Tax Administration is lagging behind the fluctuations in the housing market.

Thus, it will take time before homeowners feel the effect of the housing price drop that is happening in the market at the moment.

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What lower inflation in Norway means for you 

Inflation in Norway continues to slow. However, the cost of living in the country isn’t slowing as quickly as economists expected. Here’s what that means to you. 

Published: 10 May 2024 11:44 CEST
What lower inflation in Norway means for you 

Inflation is slowing 

Norway’s Consumer Price Index, CPI, which measures changes in prices for household goods and services, has slowed yet again. 

Between April last year and the same month this year, prices in Norway rose by 3.6 percent. It marks the third time that price increases have been below four percent since the start of 2022. 

The figures, released by Norway’s national data agency Statistics Norway, mark the fourth month in a row where the 12 monthly inflation figure has been lower than the yearly figure from the month before. This means prices are rising less rapidly than before. 

“Price growth decreased for the fourth month in a row in April. Prices are still higher than they were at the same time last year for most goods and services, but they are generally rising more slowly than before,” Espen Kristiansen at Statistics Norway said. 

Food remains one of the biggest contributors to inflation 

The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 3.3 percent from March to April, according to Statistics Norway. 

Chocolate, soft drinks, coffee, and citrus foods saw the biggest price increases, which the national data agency called “unusual.” 

What wasn’t unusual, however, was the cost of food rising following Easter, when many supermarkets ran offers to compete for customers. 

“The rise must be seen in the context of the fact that large offer campaigns in connection with Easter dampened prices in March,” Kristiansen said. 

The figures for April show that food prices in Norway have increased by 6.8 percent compared to a year ago. 

The rising cost of food and drink in Norway could potentially outgrow wages this year, even if expected pay bumps will outpace forecasted inflation overall. 

Economists expected inflation to fall more 

Inflation hasn’t eased as much as some experts were expecting. Core inflation, which excludes energy prices and taxes, was measured at 4.4 percent year on year in April. This is above what economists surveyed by the newswire Reuters expected. 

Norges Bank, the country’s central bank, raised the policy rate to a 16-year high of 4.5 percent in December. The bank has said that inflation should generally be around two percent, so it has used interest rates to curb price increases. 

As inflation isn’t falling much quicker than expected, economists predict that the central bank may wait until December before slashing rates – which for consumers means that loan and mortgage repayments will remain high for the foreseeable future. 

“The fall in inflation has not been much greater than Norges Bank has thought. This, therefore, indicates that an interest rate cut may come in December instead of September,” Kjersti Haugland, chief economist at DNB Markets, told public broadcaster NRK. 

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