The authority imposed a consumer protection fine on the airline Ryanair, which tried to pass on the extra profit tax to the passengers amid great hysteria, Justice Minister Judit Varga informed the public in her Facebook post on Monday.
Judit Varga recalled in her post that on June 10, Budapest's Capital City Government Office initiated official consumer protection proceedings against the Ryanair-DAC airline on the subject of passing on the extra-profit special tax. He added that, as a professional governing body, the Ministry of Justice followed the investigation throughout,
at the end of which, today, the consumer protection authority found a violation of the law, as the airline deceived consumers with unfair commercial practices.
The amount of the consumer protection fine is HUF three hundred million.
The minister emphasized that, as the Government promised, we will protect the Hungarian people and, in the case of passing on the extra-profit special tax, we will always launch a consumer protection investigation.
Wartime inflation and the wartime economic situation require that the multi-company that gains extra profit must take its share of the costs of overhead defense and national defense!
In Hungary, the laws apply to everyone. We will continue to punish the avoidance or passing on of the extra-profit special tax with a consumer protection investigation and a fine!
Source: PestiSrácok/Facebook
Featured image: MTI/Balázs Mohai
