The government is insistent that local councils will not have the means to hike taxes, a finance ministry official has said.
The relevant government offices will thwart any plan by local councils attempting to increase tax burdens by flying in the face of new centrally administered rules designed to prevent localities from increasing taxes, András Tállai, parliamentary state secretary, has said. Péter Niedermüller, the mayor of the 7th district of Budapest, has said he would insist on raising local taxes on Jan. 1, the paper noted. Tállai said the government had been “forced” to slap a nationwide ban on tax hikes at local level, “precisely because many left-wing local councils wanted to increase the local tax burden on people and businesses” during the coronavirus crisis. Under the special legal order now in force, he noted, government decrees override regulations made at local level.
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