Bill would make tobacco companies pay one-time healthcare contribution
A bill submitted by an MP of the governing Fidesz party on Thursday would require tobacco companies to pay a one-off extraordinary healthcare contribution next year, Hungarian news agency MTI reported.
The tax would be based on net revenue and set at 0.2% for HUF 30 mln to HUF 30 bln, at 2.5% for HUF 30 bln to HUF 60 bln, and at 4.5% for anything higher. The proceeds from the tax would be earmarked exclusively for financing state-funded healthcare.
The tax aims to create a "fair(er) sharing of the public burden" and to finance the restructuring of the healthcare system, according to its author, MP Kristóf Szatmáry. Because it is a one-off tax, "tobacco industry companies will, in reality, bear the brunt of the burden, and market players will not pass on the burden to consumers", according to the bill's justification.
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