#House Finance Committee

Tax Commissioner Soteris Markides expressed concern on Friday about the phenomenon of acquisitions of businesses in Cyprus by foreign companies and funds. He told MPs at the House finance committee – ...

Families with multiple children voiced strong objections before the House finance committee on Friday over the government’s proposed tax reform. The Pancyprian organisation of large families argued that in ...

Law commissioner Sofia Cleopa Hadjikyriakou lamented that her office is understaffed and staffed with people from the wrong ministry as she appeared in front of the House finance committee, which ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said she expected parliament to follow democratic procedures so the bill reforming the teacher evaluation system can be sent to the plenum, where “we will all ...

A compliance rate exceeding 90 per cent in handling individual complaints has been recorded, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides told MPs on Friday. Presenting her office’s budget for 2026 before the House ...

Tempers flared among members of parliament over the matter of the Great Sea Interconnector on Friday as the House finance committee discussed the energy ministry’s budget. The flashpoint came ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Monday outlined the government’s plans for next year’s state budget at a meeting of the House finance committee, telling it the government aims ...

An online platform for those who lost their savings in the 2013 bank bail-in will go live this summer and disbursements will start being made soon, officials said in parliament on ...

A Nicosia court ruled on Tuesday against the state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) for including unfair terms in its loan agreements with consumers, in breach of Cyprus’ consumer protection laws. ...

The House Finance Committee on Monday will start debating the government bill that abolishes the ban on filling vacancies with permanent staff in the public sector, a measure imposed in 2013 ...

The Cyprus Telecommunications authority (Cyta), recorded revenues of €415 million and an expected pre-tax profit of €59 million for 2024, chairwoman Maria Tsiakka said on Monday. Speaking at a House finance committee meeting ...

Construction works on a large number of housing units will begin in 2025, director of the Land Development Organisation Eleni Symeonidou told the House finance committee on Monday, where MPs were ...

Over €80 million in benefits have not been claimed from 2014 to date, commissioner for agricultural payments (Capo) Andreas Kyprianou told the House finance committee on Monday. Kyprianou added that 300 young farmers ...

The 348 students left out of state scholarships in 2023-2024 will receive the grants they are entitled to, head of the state scholarship institution (Ikyk) Giorgos Skalias said on Monday. Speaking ...

Cyprus’ income from emissions allowances will fall by around €30 million next year, the agriculture ministry disclosed on Friday. The figures were disclosed ahead of discussions in parliament over the ministry’...

Members of the board on the Gaming & Casino Supervision Commission get special treatment, pocketing around €800 a month while others on similar public bodies make €70, MPs heard on Monday. The ...

Parliamentarians on Monday discussed amendments to the law which would mandate authorities here to request access to individuals’ banking information where taxes or duties levied on behalf of the European ...

Around 250 seconded nurses are being forced to perform other duties in addition to or instead of their own jobs, leaving hospitals short of nurses, nurses’ union Pasyno chairman Christos Christodoulou ...

The Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) acknowledged on Monday delays in issuing loans to applicants, but again attributed this to understaffing. The matter came up at the House finance committee, discussing ...

Approval just takes too long, developers tell buyers seeking competitive loans from the Housing Finance Corporation The state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC, better known in Greek as Οργανισμός Χρηματοδοτήσεως Στέγης) was seen as ...

The state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) will be able to buy performing loans and sell its non-performing loans like any other bank, under a law passed by the House on ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides raised the issue of making the service financially independent on Friday, during a meeting of the house finance committee. The committee was discussing the 2024 budget for the ...

The government has denied access to the audit service to review gun permits given to seven former state officials and politicians on a special licence, it emerged on Friday after ...

A staggering 43.69 per cent of the loan portfolio of the state-owned Housing Finance Corporation is non-performing, but not a single foreclosure has been carried out. Deputies who heard this at ...