A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
22 milliárd Ft to run government IT applications — frozen to stop the drift.
Application operations for government digital services: held at their current nominal level so real-terms erosion forces efficiency gains the soft-budget IT environment does not deliver voluntarily.
Roughly 5,500 Ft per taxpayer per year — 21,962 millió Ft in government application costs, where a nominal freeze delivers roughly 20-25% real compression over a decade.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the digital systems that deliver government services to citizens. The unseen: the cost growth that accumulates in IT environments where the internal customer faces no price and the provider faces no competitive tender — growth the nominal freeze is designed to arrest.
Ellenvetés
"Government IT has to be maintained — you can't just freeze it and expect services to work."
Válasz
The freeze sets the cash envelope; the operator manages within it. Government IT is a historically soft-budget environment precisely because the internal customer does not price its consumption and the provider has no market to compete against. The nominal freeze converts an open-ended cost into a fixed constraint — the mechanism that replaces the competitive discipline the market would otherwise provide.
Share if you think government IT spending should face the same cost discipline as any other budget line.
Az elemző értékelése
Infokommunikációs feladatok — Kormányzati infokommunikációs szolgáltatások — Alkalmazásüzemeltetési feladatok ellátása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
Running the IT systems on which government administration depends — the operational and infrastructure lines — is a real support cost of functions that exist for other reasons. It is not itself a rights-protection function, but it is the unavoidable operating cost of the administration that delivers those functions, and it cannot be cut without disabling the services it underpins. The honest classification is Nominal Freeze: hold the lines flat, let real-terms erosion impose a steady efficiency discipline (roughly 20-25% real compression over a decade), and require the operator to absorb that through procurement and consolidation rather than through tariff growth. Government IT is a notorious soft-budget environment — costs drift upward because the internal customer does not face a price and the provider faces no competitive tender — so the nominal freeze is doing real work: it converts an open-ended cost into a fixed envelope the provider must manage within.
Átállási mechanizmus
Hold at nominal level. Real-terms erosion of roughly 20-25% over a decade imposed through the freeze. The operator absorbs this through procurement and consolidation rather than tariff growth.
Érintett csoportok
Government IT operators and contractors; public-sector staff dependent on the application systems; citizens whose public-service interactions depend on these systems.
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