A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
The office that disburses cultural grants should shrink when the grants do.
2.8 milliárd Ft for a body that exists to administer discretionary cultural funds — as those funds are phased out, the administration that runs them has less to do.
Roughly 702 Ft per taxpayer per year — 2.8 milliárd Ft for the back-office of a grant system whose front-office is being wound down.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: a government agency processing grant applications and disbursing cultural funding to organisations. The unseen: the private donors, membership contributions, and earned income that would fund the same cultural activity voluntarily if the state were not the central financier — and the administrative apparatus that persists even after its purpose is reduced.
Ellenvetés
"Someone has to administer remaining cultural grants — the office has a legitimate function."
Válasz
It does — and a residual grant-administration unit will remain for whatever cultural funding survives the review. The three-year reduction tracks the contraction of the discretionary funds below, so the office is sized to what it actually has to do rather than to what it once administered.
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Az elemző értékelése
Nemzeti Kulturális Támogatáskezelő
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The Nemzeti Kulturális Támogatáskezelő is the administrative office that runs the cultural grant competitions — it processes applications and disburses several of the discretionary funds analysed below (the Csoóri Sándor Alap, the Nemzeti Tehetség Program competitions, and others). Its scale is a direct function of the volume of discretionary cultural grant-making the state undertakes. As the discretionary grant funds below are reduced or wound down, the office that administers them has correspondingly less to do. An administrative office that exists to operate an underlying grant system has no independent value beyond the system it serves — the office is the back-office of the grant system, and it should shrink in step with that system. A residual grant-administration capacity may be retained for whatever cultural funding survives the review of the discretionary lines; that residual is a fraction of the 2,809.7 millió Ft.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear three-year reduction tracking the contraction of the discretionary cultural grant funds; retain a small residual administration unit sized to the surviving funding. The personnel component (1,786.9 millió Ft) is the protected payroll; grant-administration skills transfer within the public sector. Year-1 net saving 936.6 millió Ft rising toward the full envelope by year 3, net of the retained residual.
Érintett csoportok
Grant-manager staff (transferable administrative skills, three-year horizon); cultural grant applicants (affected by the changes to the underlying funds, not by this office's wind-down as such).
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