A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
8.9 billion Ft for trade-promotion organisations — a service to exporters, paid for by everyone.
Trade promotion connects Hungarian exporters to foreign markets. The firms that benefit are identifiable; the taxpayers funding it are the general population, including the many firms and workers who export nothing.
Roughly 2,230 Ft per taxpayer per year — 8,925 million Ft for trade-promotion services whose value is captured by a specific set of exporting firms.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the trade-promotion organisation and the exporter it connects to a foreign buyer. The unseen: the domestic-market small business and the wage-earner who fund, through their taxes, a commercial service they will never use.
Ellenvetés
"Smaller exporters can't afford to break into foreign markets without trade-mission support — this levels the playing field."
Válasz
If trade promotion is valuable to exporters, exporters will pay for it. Chambers of commerce and sector associations fund exactly this service in countries where the state does not. A three-year phase-out gives the organisations time to build membership-and-fee revenue from the firms that use their services, in proportion to what those firms actually value. The diffuse taxpayer stops subsidising a service whose benefit is concentrated.
Share if you think exporters who benefit from trade promotion should pay for it, not the general taxpayer.
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Indoklás
This line funds organisations carrying out foreign-economic-development and trade-promotion activity. Trade promotion — connecting Hungarian exporters to foreign markets — is an activity that the firms which benefit from it could fund themselves, through chambers of commerce, sector associations, and paid trade-mission participation, at a scale that reflects what exporters actually value it at. Where the beneficiaries are identifiable commercial firms and the activity is a commercial service to them, the case for tax-financing rather than fee-financing is weak: the diffuse taxpayer is funding a service whose value is captured by a specific and organised set of exporting firms. A three-year phase-out lets the organisations transition to a membership-and-fee model in which exporters pay for trade-promotion services in proportion to the use they make of them.
Átállási mechanizmus
Reduce the appropriation linearly over three years while the organisations build fee-based and membership-funded revenue from the exporting firms that use their services.
Érintett csoportok
Trade-promotion organisations and their staff; exporting firms, who would fund the service directly in proportion to use.
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