A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
3.8 milliárd Ft to subsidise the IT and accounting of state companies.
Back-office services — accounting, payroll, IT, procurement — available on the private market, instead funded as a separate state budget line for ministry-portfolio companies.
About 975 Ft per taxpayer per year — 3,800.0 millió Ft total; Year-1 net saving of 1,330.0 millió Ft as non-payroll costs end first.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: a shared service centre providing accounting, IT, and procurement to state-owned companies under the ministry. The unseen: the wage-earner whose tax funds services that every private company in the economy buys at a market price — from a deep, competitive sector of outsourcing and accountancy firms — while the state company gets them free of charge through a separate budget line.
Ellenvetés
"Centralising back-office services saves money through scale — it's more efficient than each company procuring separately."
Válasz
The efficiency argument applies equally to any private company: if centralisation saves money, private firms centralise it through a shared service agreement and one firm bears the cost. What a state budget line does is make the cost invisible to the companies that use the service, removing any pressure to use it efficiently. The saving goes to the ministry's accounts; the companies have no incentive to economise on something they receive for free.
Share if you think state companies should pay market prices for services the market already supplies.
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Indoklás
This line funds "centralised corporate services" — the shared back-office functions (IT, finance and accounting, procurement, administration) consolidated for the state-owned companies in the ministry's portfolio. Recent organisational changes in the portfolio have moved exactly these functions — IT, finance, accounting, procurement, and administrative work — into a shared service centre. The classification turns on what a shared service centre is. Back-office services — accounting, payroll processing, IT support, procurement administration — are ordinary commercial services with a deep, competitive private market: they are exactly what business-process outsourcing firms and accountancy and IT providers supply, at a price, to companies across the economy. Consolidating them into a state-funded centre does not create a capacity the market lacks; it relocates a priced service into a tax-financed line. A state-owned company that needs accounting and IT support can buy it — from a competitive market that prices the service and bears the consequence of doing it badly — and the cost then sits, correctly, with the company that uses the service rather than as a separate 3,800.0 millió Ft subsidy line in the ministry's chapter. The phase-out horizon is three years: the protected party is the staff of the shared service centre, a group with directly marketable skills, and the realistic transition is for the state-owned companies to procure these services and for the centre's staff to move into the private business-process sector.
Átállási mechanizmus
Phase-Out over 3 years (a 24-month severance-with-overlap bridge plus the year in which the line reaches fiscal zero). The shared service centre is a personnel-heavy back-office operation; on the structure of comparable shared service centres the payroll component is the dominant share of the operating cost. The chapter shows a single transfer figure with no internal breakdown, so the payroll component is estimated at 65% of the envelope — 2,470.0 millió Ft — on the basis that a back-office service centre's principal cost is the salaries of its administrative, IT, and finance staff; this estimate should be replaced with the centre's audited payroll figure before implementation. Severance-with-overlap pays the payroll component for 24 months while staff move into the competitive business-process, accountancy, and IT sector, keeping both incomes during the overlap. The non-payroll component — an estimated 1,330.0 millió Ft of software licences, premises, and operating cost — ends in the first budget cycle. Year-1 and Year-2 net saving is the non-payroll envelope of 1,330.0 millió Ft (the payroll is still being paid as severance); from Year 3 the full 3,800.0 millió Ft is saved annually, as the state-owned companies procure these services on the market and the cost sits with them. The estimate is flagged for replacement with the audited payroll share.
Érintett csoportok
The staff of the centralised service centre — an administrative, IT, and finance workforce with directly transferable skills. The 24-month severance-with-overlap bridge gives continued salary with the right to take new employment during the overlap; for this skill profile, re-employment in the business-process, accountancy, and IT sector is the realistic household path. The state-owned companies in the portfolio procure back-office services from the market rather than receiving them as a centralised subsidy.
Források
- Top50 — A Budavári Palotanegyed néhány év múlva teljesen megújul · Turizmus.com (2025)
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