The head of the State Audit Office, in an article published by the daily Magyar Nemzet, said ideally personal income tax should be scrapped altogether, arguing that it was a burden on work and generally perceived as a “punishment”.
Some 97% of the around 6.2 million internet users in Hungary use a smartphone and one-quarter of users have installed a shopping application on their device, business daily Világgazdaság said on Tuesday, citing data from market research company GKI Digital’s Online Retail Big Picture Hungary survey.
Hungarian inflation was an annual 4.6% in July, after 5.3% in June, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Tuesday.
More than 184,000 families have benefited so far from the government’s family home purchase subsidies (csok) and more than 25,000 families applied for the home renovation subsidies since the latter scheme was launched early this year, Minister for Families Katalin Novák said on Tuesday.
The opposition Socialist Party has made contact with the Norwegian embassy with a view to renegotiating the basis on which Norway Fund monies are disbursed in Hungary should the party form the next government in 2022.
According to holtankoljak.hu, fuel prices are going to drop on Wednesday (11th August).
Hungary’s cash flow-based budget deficit, excluding local councils, reached 1,803.7 billion forints (EUR 5.09bn) at the end of July, widening on stimulus measures, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary release of data on Monday. “Recent measures aimed to support investments, job creation and families have left significant resources in the economy,” the ministry said.
The number of guest nights at commercial accommodations in Hungary rose by an annual 57.4% to 1,328,000 in June after pandemic-related restrictions were eased, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Monday show.
National Bank of Hungary (NBH) governor György Matolcsy has urged major institutional changes in the structure and operations of the government with a view to preventing Hungary from getting stuck in a “middle-income trap”.
Domestic tourism has been properly restored since the stoppage caused by coronavirus, while the return of international visitors to Hungary is slowly under way, the head of the Hungarian Tourism Agency said on Sunday.
