Economic Development

According to December 2019 survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre 18% of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 30% say it is adequate and 43% think it is low.

Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 38% of respondents, adequate by 52% and low by 3% of citizens.

Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 58%, adequate by 32% and low by 3%. 

55% of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

According to the November 2019 survey of CVVM, 46% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 37% view it as neither good nor bad, and 16% consider it to be bad.

49% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 13% consider it to be bad, and 38% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

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According to the October 2019 survey of CVVM, 52% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 35% view it as neither good nor bad, and 12% consider it to be bad.

According to the September 2019 survey of CVVM, 52% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 34% view it as neither good nor bad, and 13% consider it to be bad.

According to the June 2019 survey of CVVM, 51% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 33% view it as neither good nor bad, and 14% consider it to be bad.

According to the May survey of CVVM, 45% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 37% view it as neither good nor bad, and 16% consider it to be bad.

According to the February survey of CVVM, 49% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 36% view it as neither good nor bad, and 13% consider it to be bad.

36% of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, 51% believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and 11% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 52% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 33% view it as neither good nor bad, and 13% consider it to be bad.

Since February 1997 CVVM has been examined what people think about the economic standard of our country compared to nine other European countries.

The current economic level of the Czech Republic is seen more positive (78%) than negative (20%). In comparison to other nine countries included in the survey, the Czech Republic took the third place behind Germany and Austria. Compared to the previous survey from January 2017 the evaluation of the economic level of the Czech Republic has got somewhat better.