From the 2026 budget audit
3.5 milliárd forint of agricultural subsidy labelled 'other'.
A residual national agricultural support line of 3,470 millió Ft — the same mechanism as the priority sectoral support, with the label changed.
Roughly 845 Ft per taxpayer per year — 3,470 millió Ft total — for national agricultural subsidy whose specific recipients and criteria are not disaggregated in the budget data.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: transfers to agricultural producers from a budget line that carries no further itemisation. The unseen: the general taxpayer funding a transfer whose beneficiaries and selection criteria are not publicly specified beyond the word 'other'.
Objection
"Residual lines cover legitimate smaller programmes that don't warrant their own budget line."
Answer
A legitimate programme can be named and costed. A 3.5 milliárd Ft appropriation labelled 'other agricultural support' is an undifferentiated transfer whose specific recipients are unknown to the taxpayer funding it. The mechanism is identical to the priority-support line; the phase-out applies on the same five-year schedule.
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The analyst's verdict
Other agricultural support
Rationale
A residual category of national agricultural subsidy. The mechanism is the same as Kiemelt ágazati támogatások — a transfer to agricultural producers funded from general taxation — and it follows the same classification. The "other" labelling does not change what the line does.
Transition mechanism
Linear phase-out over 5 years, in step with the priority-support line.
Affected groups
Agricultural producers receiving the residual support.
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