Economic Policy

According to the May survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 35% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 40% view it as neither good nor bad, and 24% consider it to be good.

According to the February survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 54% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 35% view it as neither good nor bad, and 10% consider it to be good.

Some measures aimed at the elimination of tax evasion or other forms of economic crime such as alcohol stamps (71%) and the ban on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes in market places (68%), property assessment (59%) and the ban on payments in cash from a particular amount and higher (51%) and the introduction of cash registers (58%) enjoy a relatively strong or strongly prevailing support. As far as the changes in the tax rates are concerned, the general public would not object if the duty on cigarettes (66% for) or alcohol (63% for) were to be increased.