From the 2026 budget audit
5.3 milliárd Ft for 'other business development' — no mandate, no named recipients
A discretionary ministerial allocation with no statutory programme definition, no market signal, and no named counterparties — the textbook form of subjective grant allocation.
Roughly 1,327 Ft per taxpayer per year — 5,306 millió Ft total, distributed at ministerial discretion without a defined programme or public competitive process.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: whatever firms or projects the ministry selected in the current year. The unseen: every equally capable firm that received nothing because it was not chosen — and every wage-earner whose SZJA and SzocHo funded the transfer to the selected ones.
Objection
"Businesses need support to grow — without these grants, smaller firms can't invest."
Answer
If the criterion for support is merit, a competitive programme with published rules and audited outcomes can test it. If the criterion is the ministry's discretion, the support is an allocation by political officeholders, not a market-tested intervention. The reform direction is a lower and simpler tax burden for every business — not a pot that concentrates a benefit on the firms an office happens to favour.
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The analyst's verdict
Other business-development tasks
Rationale
A discretionary chapter-managed business-development line with no defined statutory mandate, no contractual counterparties whose reliance must be honoured, and no dependency chain tying citizens' life plans to it at scale. "Business development" administered as a discretionary budget allocation by political officeholders is precisely the subjective allocation the framework identifies: the ministry decides which firms, sectors, or projects receive support, in the absence of any market price signal that would reveal where the money is best deployed. The reform direction for business development is a lower and simpler tax burden and secure property rights, applied to every firm equally — not a discretionary pot allocated case by case.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate in the 2026 budget cycle. No severance component — the line funds programme grants, not a payrolled institution; the administering staff sit within the ministry's igazgatás line.
Affected groups
Firms that would have received discretionary grants — a benefit, not a contractual right; no protected reliance.
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