From the 2026 budget audit
41.6 milliárd Ft of government IT labelled 'other' — twice the named operations it supposedly supplements.
A residual 'other professional tasks' line that rivals the named IT operations in scale: the undefined share of government infocommunication has grown to exceed what the budget is willing to name.
Roughly 10,420 Ft per taxpayer per year — 41,626 millió Ft in undefined IT expenditure, in a block where named operations and development total 100 milliárd Ft.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: whatever IT work flows through a line the budget calls 'other professional tasks'. The unseen: the scale — 41.6 milliárd Ft — which tells you the undefined share has grown until it rivals the named share; the citizen cannot see what is being bought because the line itself refuses to say.
Objection
"IT procurement involves complex bundled contracts — not every cost fits a clean category."
Answer
41.6 milliárd Ft is not a rounding error or a classification difficulty. It is 41% of the entire infocommunication sub-chapter. If the work is real and the contracts are genuine, they can be listed as named contracts in named budget lines. A line this large that cannot say what it funds is the signature of an environment where the constraint the budget is supposed to provide has been bypassed.
Share if you think 41 milliárd Ft of government IT spending should say what it is buying.
The analyst's verdict
Infocommunication tasks — Government infocommunication services — Other professional tasks
Rationale
This is the problem line in the infocommunication block, and it is a large one. A 41.6 milliárd Ft line named only "other professional tasks", sitting beside named operations and development lines, is a residual discretionary channel. The taxpayer funding it cannot see what it buys; the budget cannot demonstrate the right level of it because it is priced against no defined output; and "other", as a line definition, is precisely the category where allocation discipline is weakest. The defence will be that the line funds genuine IT work that simply does not fit the other four headings — but if so, that work can be named and presented as its own line, where it can be assessed. A line that cannot say what it funds cannot be assumed to fund something worth 41.6 milliárd Ft of involuntary contribution. Immediate Cut, with the standard route back: genuine commitments inside it return as named, assessable lines.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate in the 2026 cycle. Genuine commitments inside the line return as named, assessable lines.
Affected groups
Recipients of undisclosed IT professional-task expenditure; no specific counterparty visible from the line definition.
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