Budapest Mayor Misleading People Concerning Solidarity Tax Ruling?

  • 23 Jan 2025 10:48 AM
Budapest Mayor Misleading People Concerning Solidarity Tax Ruling?
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony is "completely misleading people" through his remarks about a recent ruling concerning the city's obligation to pay a solidarity tax to the central budget, Botond Sara, the city's government commissioner, said in a video broadcast on Facebook.

"The ruling is just the opposite of what the mayor said," Sara said, insisting that the court had not contested the lawfulness or the magnitude of the tax, nor did it rule that the state should reimburse the tax collected from metropolitan accounts.

On Tuesday, a Budapest court issued a binding ruling in favour of the city's administration in its lawsuit against the state treasury over the solidarity tax, declaring the previous tax collection orders unlawful.

The Budapest metropolitan council filed its lawsuit in 2023 arguing that the 28 billion forints (EUR 67.9m) in solidarity tax it had paid to the state treasury was unlawful because it exceeded the funding it received from the government.

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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