A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
1.9 milliárd Ft: one appointed body decides which artists and companies receive public money.
The MMA's largest grant block funds artistic programmes and the 'cultural tasks' of business entities — allocated by an appointed academy with no market price on the choice.
Roughly 470 Ft per taxpayer per year — 1,893.4 millió Ft routed through a single appointed institution's preferences about which programmes and companies deserve state support.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the artists, ensembles, and companies that receive MMA programme grants in any given year. The unseen: the programmes that command no academy favour but could command a ticket-buying audience or a willing sponsor — and every taxpayer funding the channel that decides the difference.
Ellenvetés
"Cultural programmes need support beyond what ticket sales can provide — without grant funding, important work that isn't commercially viable won't get made."
Válasz
A programme worth staging can be financed by ticket revenue, sponsorship, or the patrons who value it. A company's 'cultural task' is, if commercially worthwhile, part of its own business case. What the 1.9 milliárd Ft line concentrates is not support for art — it is the power of one appointed institution to decide which art in Hungary receives compulsory-transfer support. Removing the line does not remove the art; it removes the channel through which one body's preferences are financed by your taxes.
Share if you think one appointed body shouldn't decide which artists and companies receive nearly 2 milliárd Ft of public money each year.
Az elemző értékelése
Művészeti programok és gazdasági társaságok kulturális feladatainak támogatása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The largest grant block in the chapter — a discretionary fund from which the academy supports artistic programmes and the "cultural tasks" of business entities. This is subjective allocation by appointed officeholders in its clearest form: an appointed body decides which programmes and which companies' cultural activities receive public money, with no price signal disciplining the choice and no test the recipients had to meet other than the academy's judgement. A programme worth staging can be financed by ticket revenue, by sponsorship, by the patrons and audiences who value it; a company's "cultural task" is, if commercially worthwhile, part of its own business case, and if not, is not a charge the general taxpayer should carry. The line concentrates a decision power — who in Hungarian artistic life receives state money — in one appointed institution. Removing the line does not remove the art; it removes the channel through which one body's preferences are financed by compulsory transfer.
Átállási mechanizmus
Eliminate in the 2026 cycle. Grant commitments already contracted for performances or projects in train run to their contracted term and are not renewed; no new calls are issued. Programmes that command an audience continue on earned and voluntary revenue.
Érintett csoportok
Artists, ensembles, and companies that have received MMA programme grants. The displacement is the loss of one funding channel; for work that commands an audience or a sponsor, the channel is replaceable. The reform does not reduce the total resources available to Hungarian art — it stops routing a slice of them through an appointed allocator and leaves them with the taxpayers who would otherwise have been taxed to fund the line.
Szabad Társadalom Intézet
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Kutatásunk ingyenes, nyílt és nem szponzorált. Ha hasznosnak találod, segíts fenntartani.