From the 2026 budget audit
152 million Ft of new equipment for an office that should close.
Capital investment in IT infrastructure and fixed assets for a body whose function — investigating the funding sources and presumed political effect of lawful organisations — does not belong among the legitimate uses of compulsory taxation.
About 37 Ft per taxpayer this year, buying equipment that will sit in an office until wind-down — every forint a forint not chosen by any private buyer for any productive use they preferred.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: new servers and equipment appearing in the Office's inventory. The unseen: the same capital in the hands of the wage-earner who funded it, available to save, invest, or spend as their own judgement directs.
Objection
"But the equipment is already being procured — you can't just stop mid-contract."
Answer
No new procurement is authorised from the point of decision; in-flight contracts run to their contractual break points and are not renewed. The cut is to the budget line — no future capital commitments, not a breach of existing counterparty rights.
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The analyst's verdict
Capital Investments
Rationale
Capital investment in equipment, IT infrastructure, and similar assets for an institution that is being wound down. Capital is scarce and has alternative uses: every forint of equipment bought for this Office is a forint of saving not deployed to a project a private buyer would have selected. There is no case for new capital formation inside an institution slated for closure. The line is eliminated immediately; any assets already held are realised or transferred at the point of wind-down.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate in the first budget cycle. No new capital commitments authorised.
Affected groups
Equipment and IT vendors as contract counterparties; no broader affected group.
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