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Tuesday, 16 June 2026
A new act cuts the costs of Parliament and MPs, and ends the practice of parliamentary groups giving money from their state support to their party. A draft would amend the act on windfall taxes; this was only a proposal, with comments until 24 June.
The act on reducing Parliament's operating costs, adopted by Parliament on 8 June 2026, was promulgated. MPs' basic remuneration will be 1.8 times the previous year's gross average wage published by the statistics office (KSH), with office holders' allowances as multiples of this, the Speaker's being 2.91 times. The fuel allowance of MPs living in Budapest falls from 2,500 km to zero, while those from elsewhere can also spend it on passes and electric car charging. Parliamentary groups can no longer give money from their budget support to their party, nor carry over unused funds at the end of the parliamentary term. The new rules must first be applied to the July 2026 payments.
Weight: 3/3 · substantive · Concrete decision to be implemented (affects many people).
Draft: an act that would make the special tax on producers of petroleum products, the so-called Brent–Urals tax, banded. A 50 percent tax would apply to the part of the per-barrel price difference between Brent and Urals oil between 2 and 5 dollars, and 95 percent to the part above 5 dollars. The change would first apply to the August 2026 liability, and the tax would be extended to 2027; comments could be sent until 24 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 24 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés az egyes adókötelezettségekről és egyes adótörvények módosításáról szóló 2025. évi LIV. törvény módosításához
Issue no. 71 of the Hungarian Gazette (Magyar Közlöny) for 2026 appeared on 16 June and contains one item. It promulgated the act on cutting Parliament's costs, which puts MPs' remuneration on a new basis and narrows MPs' benefits. Each item is described separately on this page.
Weight: 1/3 · Gazette issue: the items in it are rated separately.