The companies asked for additional time to pay back a total of HUF 104 bln in taxes, of which the majority was VAT. The paper noted that the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) approved about half of the requests.
The tax office receives approximately 50,000 requests from private individuals each year asking for more time to pay their taxes, of which NAV generally approves about two-thirds, the paper added.
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