Led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the government held a three-day remote meeting in Sopron, where the provisions on the imposition of the extra-profit tax and the 2023 budget were adopted.
Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister's press chief, informed MTI on Saturday.
The most important topic of the government meeting was the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. As a consequence of the war, a new world economic crisis is threatening. In the war situation, led by Viktor Orbán, the ministers reviewed the most important and urgent tasks before them. "The goal is to protect families, pensioners, protect jobs and reduce overheads, and with the extra profit special tax we will oblige large companies that have accumulated large profits in the past period to pay a large part of their extra profit into the overhead protection and national defense fund, contributing to the for the defense of the country," Bertalan Havasi explained the government's position.
According to his announcement, the government has accepted the provisions on the imposition of the extra-profit tax and the 2023 budget. The Hungarian government is committed to maintaining the deficit target of 4.9 percent for 2022 and 3.5 percent for 2023, he wrote.
Opening image: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the remote government meeting held in Sopron on June 4, 2022. MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer
