A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
Should every taxpayer refund the cost of a young person's driving licence?
2.1 milliárd Ft reimburses the cost of language exams and driving licences for young people — private goods whose benefit accrues entirely to the individual who obtains them.
Roughly 534 Ft per taxpayer per year — 2.1 milliárd Ft in reimbursements for private qualifications that the great majority of language exams and driving licences have always been taken without.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: young people receiving refunds for their first language exam and driving licence from the state. The unseen: the workers — many of whom took the same qualifications without any refund, and many of whom earn less than the young people who will now obtain professional or commercial licences — whose payroll tax funds the transfers.
Ellenvetés
"Language skills and mobility help young people into the labour market — these subsidies pay for themselves."
Válasz
If they do, the beneficiary has every incentive to bear the cost and will — as the vast majority of exam-takers already did before the subsidy existed. A reimbursement that flows to the young person who obtained a qualification they already had reason to obtain is not an investment; it is a transfer to those with the resources and planning to pursue exams, funded by those who do not receive it.
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Az elemző értékelése
Fiatalok nyelvvizsga- és vezetői engedély támogatása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
Two components are best classified as Phase-Out (3 years) on the consumer-subsidy reasoning. The Fiatalok első sikeres nyelvvizsgájának támogatása (1,300.0 millió Ft, refund of the cost of a young person's first successful language exam) and the Fiatalok vezetői engedélyének megszerzésével összefüggő hozzájárulás (835.0 millió Ft, contribution toward a young person's driving licence) are state reimbursements of private consumption costs. A language certificate and a driving licence are private goods whose benefit accrues entirely to the individual who obtains them; reimbursing them from general taxation is a transfer to those young people, and where take-up skews toward households already positioned to pursue exams and licences, the incidence is regressive relative to the broad tax base that funds it. A three-year phase-out recognises that young people have planned around the schemes; the activity continues unsubsidised, as the great majority of language exams and driving licences always have been.
Átállási mechanizmus
Phase out the language-exam (1,300.0) and driving-licence (835.0) subsidies linearly over three years — Year-1 combined net saving 711.7 millió Ft rising to 2,135.0 millió Ft by year 3; the activity continues unsubsidised.
Érintett csoportok
Young people claiming the exam and licence refunds (three-year horizon; the activity continues unsubsidised).
Szabad Társadalom Intézet
Támogasd a független elemzéseket
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