Mária Lakatos

Taxation in General: Hungarian Tax System


Determination of the tax mix

If we take the annual revenue requirement of a country, i.e., the amount it needs to collect in order to be able to cover its expenditure as given, it must be decided what kind of taxes should be levied or introduced?
A government also faces the fundamental choice when to levy taxes, e.g., following a several decades period of refusal to use taxes (due to lack of private property), in the Central and East-European countries some kind of a tax system had to be re-introduced after the Regime Change. The new one - contrary to the previous method - guarantees state revenues by some other manner and not by total centralization.
 
2. Figure. Tax revenues in the budget
Source: own chart based on data obtained from the KSH (Central Statistical Office) of Hungary

Taxation in General: Hungarian Tax System

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2022

ISBN: 978 963 664 137 5

Taxation is a scheme for the state to provide revenue. The so collected money could then cover the public spending of the government. These are the so-called allocative and redistributive functions of the state budget. Although, taxation theory discusses the various tax types and analyses the various taxation tools very extensively, there is no absolute answer to the question, when and what type of taxation system would be optimal. Thus this introductory book on taxation deals with the three basic types of taxes - the income tax, the VAT and the corporation tax - in a very pragmatic way. There are legal texts and cases from both the international and also from the relevant Hungarian practice.

This book is recommended not only for students of economics but also for law students and practitioners beside anyone who is interested in the basic regulations of taxation.

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