A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
1.5 billion Ft in payroll taxes — for a communications operation funded by you.
On top of the 10.5 billion Ft Cabinet Office payroll, another 1,524 millió Ft flows in employer contributions — the compulsory tax on labour that falls on every worker's employer.
Roughly 350 Ft per taxpayer per year — 1,524 millió Ft in employer-side payroll tax on the Cabinet Office's communications and events establishment.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the employer's statutory contribution, absorbed by the state budget. The unseen: the wedge this signals — the same tax that narrows private-sector take-home pay here funds a state communications payroll.
Ellenvetés
"This is just how payroll taxes work — every employer pays them."
Válasz
Correct — but the policy question is what the payroll funds. A payroll tax on counter-intelligence officers funds rights protection. The same tax on campaign and events staff funds persuasion. The contribution line disappears when the activity it sits on disappears; that is what phase-out means.
Pass this on to anyone asking where payroll taxes actually go.
Az elemző értékelése
Miniszterelnöki Kabinetiroda — Munkaadókat terhelő járulékok és szociális hozzájárulási adó
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The Cabinet Office is the staff apparatus of the minister responsible for general political coordination. A government needs an executive coordinating office; that function — interministerial coordination, cabinet servicing, the dossier work behind the legislative programme — is a legitimate part of running the executive, and the operating costs (Dologi kiadások, 1,759.3 millió Ft) and capital line (Beruházások, 580.7 millió Ft) are retained on that basis. The capital line is small enough that a nominal freeze, eroding it by roughly 22 millió Ft per year in real terms, is the proportionate treatment rather than an outright cut. The personnel line is different, and the reason is in the chapter itself. The Cabinet Office does not only coordinate; it administers the 174 milliárd Ft communication, events, and grant cluster analysed below. A substantial part of the 10,499.4 millió Ft payroll exists to run campaigns, consultations, and ceremonial spending that this analysis recommends ending. When that activity goes, the staff who delivered it no longer have a function. The honest treatment is therefore a payroll Phase-Out tied to the wind-down of the discretionary cluster: a 2-year severance-with-overlap bridge that keeps affected staff on full salary while they move to private-sector employment, and permits them to keep both incomes during the transition. The bridge cost is the full 10,499.4 millió Ft payroll plus 1,524.0 millió Ft of employer contributions, paid across years 1 and 2, with the line reaching fiscal zero in year 3.
Átállási mechanizmus
A 2-year severance-with-overlap bridge paid across years 1 and 2, with the employer-contributions line reaching fiscal zero in year 3 alongside the personnel line.
Érintett csoportok
Permanent-contract civil servants on the central-administration salary tier employed in the Cabinet Office, whose employer social contribution tax liability is the subject of this line.
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