A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
2.7 billion Ft in charity tasks, coordinated by a state council
The Charity Council coordinates 2,718 million Ft of state-funded charitable activity — tasks that member organisations could carry through voluntary donations and their own fundraising.
About 681 Ft per taxpayer per year for charitable activities coordinated by a statutory council and funded from compulsory tax.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: charitable and social tasks coordinated by council members — support for vulnerable groups, community services, relief work. The unseen: the wage-earner whose tax pays for activities that the churches and civic organisations already organised under the Charity Council could fund voluntarily from their own supporters — with the mandatory transfer substituting the state's judgement for the council members' own fundraising.
Ellenvetés
"Charities depend on state funding to deliver services the market won't provide — removing it abandons vulnerable people."
Válasz
The phase-out is over three years, long enough for the activities to migrate to church and parish funding. The SZJA 1% channel lets every taxpayer direct support to the organisations they choose. The within-class dynamic is worth noting: the people who value the charitable work the Charity Council coordinates can fund it directly through that channel — the mandatory contribution from those who do not is not a substitute for genuine charitable giving, it is a replacement of it.
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Az elemző értékelése
Karitatív Tanács tagjai által koordinált feladatok támogatása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
Religious practice is the paradigm case of a voluntary association. A church is sustained by the freely-given contributions of its believers — and Hungarian churches, like churches everywhere, have a millennia-tested mechanism for this: the offering, the tithe, the membership of the faithful. The classical-liberal frame does not judge the worth of religious life; it observes that religious life does not require involuntary tax financing, because the people who value a church can and historically do fund it directly. The seen here is a funded parish, a renovated church building, a supplemented clergy income. The unseen is the wage-earner — of any faith or none — whose SZJA was routed to a religious institution they may not belong to and did not choose. The within-class point sharpens it: the 31,705.0 millió Ft core-institution line is partly an SZJA kiegészítés, a state top-up of the voluntary 1% church designation. The mechanism means that a worker who designates their 1% to no church, or to a small one, still funds — through general tax — a state supplement that scales toward the large recipient denominations. The voluntary designation channel already exists and already works; the state top-up converts a voluntary mechanism back into an involuntary one.
Átállási mechanizmus
The 7,337.3 millió Ft optional-religious-education line and the 2,718.0 Charity Council line phase over three years, long enough for the activities to migrate to church and parish funding. Across the cluster, the SZJA 1% church designation — the genuinely voluntary channel — is untouched and becomes the primary funding route.
Érintett csoportok
Churches and religious institutions, who transition from state grant to offering-and-membership funding plus the intact 1% designation; clergy and church employees on the income-supplement and core-institution lines, protected by the multi-year glide; construction counterparties on capital lines, protected by contract run-off. No believer loses the right to practise or to fund their church; the reform removes the involuntary contribution of non-members, not the voluntary contribution of members.
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