Thanks to the government's decision, local governments must refund the land tax paid for this year by October 1, and they cannot levy a new tax.

Thanks to the government's amendment to the law, the municipalities of the settlements will not be able to levy taxes on agricultural land in the future, and the land tax collected for this year must be returned by October 1 - according to the video that Zsolt Nyitrai, the prime minister's chief adviser, posted on his Facebook page on Sunday morning.

The prime minister's chief adviser said that

the amendment to the law to abolish the land tax was developed and submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture together with the farmers' organizations.

He recalled that Péter Márki-Zay, "the former Prime Minister candidate of the left", introduced the land tax in Hódmezővásárhely. If the left was in power, it would make this type of tax national, which would bring a serious increase in food prices, he underlined, adding: they could not let this happen.

He continued by saying that the National Chamber of Agrarian Economy and the Association of Hungarian Farmers' Associations and Farmers' Cooperatives (Magosz) initiated a signature to ban the land tax. He called the action a success: in a short time, more than 120,000 people signed the petition. The Hungarian government protects Hungarian farmers, he said.

 

 

István Szél, the chairman of the Magosz Csongrád-Csanád county, emphasized in the video message: thanks to the government's decision, the municipalities must return the land tax paid for this year by October 1, and they cannot impose a new tax.

He noted that Hungarian farmers are able to withstand the war, the sanctioned energy crisis and the drought, and they continuously supply the population with high-quality and safe food. This work should be supported and not hindered, he added.

On behalf of several million landowners and hundreds of thousands of farmers, he called the abolition of the land tax a good decision and thanked the government and the farmers' organization for representing their interests.

MTI

Cover photo: MTI/Zsolt Czeglédi