Low Pay Leaves Hungary’s Tax Office NAV Short Of Staff
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
The Tax and Customs Office (NAV) is suffering an extremely serious shortage of staff, the weekly Figyelõ reports, referring to a NAV document drawn up for the Economy Ministry. The note states that the equivalent of an entire regional office’s staff left the tax authority in the past year. The decline in personnel is said to due to the low salaries, as NAV employees receive Ft 70,000-160,000 less per month than other government personnel.
Their salaries were to be raised from July 1, but that did not happen.
According to the latest plans a raise could come next January, as a bill to that effect could be submitted to Parliament in September, in theory.
Ildikó Vida, who stepped down from the post of NAV president on Monday, referred in her farewell letter to her colleagues to a delay in drawing up a career model for NAV personnel.
NAV management argued in the note to the ministry that tax workers should have equal treatment with government officials, adding that only a standard NAV career model is acceptable to them.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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