A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
25.5 milliárd Ft to state companies for 'tasks performed' — without a list of the tasks.
A block transfer to state-owned companies in the ministry's portfolio: no task-by-task accounting, no hard budget constraint, and the structural pattern that produces steadily rising costs with no competitive discipline.
Roughly 6,375 Ft per taxpayer per year — 25.5 milliárd Ft flowing to state companies for unitemised tasks, with no mechanism forcing cost to track the value produced.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: state-owned cultural and sector companies receiving operating transfers to perform tasks on behalf of the ministry. The unseen: the cost discipline that would apply if the same tasks were priced to users, tendered competitively, or divested — and that is absent when the company's revenue depends on a ministry negotiation rather than on what willing buyers will pay.
Ellenvetés
"State cultural companies perform public-interest tasks that the market would not deliver — they need stable funding."
Válasz
Tasks that are genuinely public should be funded as transparent budget lines, not routed through a company as an opaque block transfer. Tasks that are commercial should face a hard budget constraint — priced to users, competitively tendered, or divested. The ministry is already selling shareholdings; this reform extends that logic to the operating transfers that accompany the companies it retains.
Share if you think state companies should either earn their costs or have their tasks named and justified.
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Indoklás
This line funds tasks delivered by state-owned companies in the ministry's portfolio. A standing state transfer to state-owned companies for "tasks performed" is the textbook setting for a soft budget constraint: the company's revenue does not depend on covering its costs from the value it produces for willing buyers, but on a negotiated transfer from its owner-ministry, so cost discipline is weak and the transfer drifts toward what the ministry will fund. Without an itemisation of which companies and which tasks, the chapter does not support a confident task-by-task classification, but the structural recommendation is clear: tasks that are genuinely commercial should be exposed to a hard budget constraint — priced to users, competitively tendered, or divested — and tasks that are genuine public functions should be funded transparently as such rather than routed through a state company as an opaque transfer. A four-year phase-out of the block transfer forces that itemisation and re-provisioning. The 10,000.0 millió Ft Részesedésértékesítés (sale-of-shareholdings) revenue line in this chapter shows the ministry is already divesting some holdings; this reform extends that logic to the operating transfers.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear four-year reduction of the block transfer, paired with a task-by-task review: commercial tasks exposed to user pricing, tender, or divestment; genuine public tasks re-provisioned as transparent budget lines. Year-1 net saving 6,375.3 millió Ft rising to the full 25,501.2 millió Ft by year 4, net of any genuine public tasks re-provisioned separately.
Érintett csoportok
The state-owned companies (exposed to a hard budget constraint or divested); users of any genuinely public tasks (re-provisioned transparently).
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