After the recent Pest County Assembly double it the business tax of the Samsung battery factory in Göd, Zoltán Kammerer, the mayor of Göd, wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday that he proposes to the government to abolish the special economic zone in Göd. He justified this by the fact that the Göd factory will be finished soon, so the special economic zone will be useless. “The Minister of Justice Bence Tuzson agrees with my opinion, we are now waiting for the support of the Hungarian government and the decision of the parliament on the matter,” wrote the paper, which was elected as an independent, but strongly supported by Fidesz mayor politics.
In 2020, the government declared the Samsung plant in Göd as a special economic zone, which meant, among other things, that the business tax collected from Samsung was no longer administered by its the town of Göd under the leadership of the opposition, but with the Fidesz. – the majority of the Pest County Assembly. In other words, the county assembly also decided how much to spend Samsung’s business tax on, which is in 2023 It was 6.5 billion HUF. He had plenty of money, for example For civil organizations close to Fidesz a few years ago.
However, in the municipal election on June 9, Fidesz lost its majority in the Pest County Assembly. Fidesz currently has 21 representatives, Momentum 10, DK 7, and Mi Hazánk 8 in the general assembly. This is how the situation could have arisen that the general assembly voted on October 25 on Momentum’s proposal to increase Samsung’s business tax from one percent to two percent next year. The representatives of the opposition parties supported the tax increase, while the majority of Fidesz abstained.
Interestingly, Kammerer writes in his post that he already told the district’s parliamentary representative (who is also Bence Tuzson) that Göd’s special economic zone could already be abolished this summer . In contrast, he only spoke about it now, shortly after the decision of the Pest County Assembly – at least there is no indication on his Facebook page that he had mentioned his previous comments.
Even if Göd’s special economic zone were to cease, it is far from certain that Samsung’s multi-billion business tax would be in the city of Göd. Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Regional Development, announced a new program at the beginning of October, which means from next year. it will take away some of the business tax revenue from the citiesand the parishioners will receive it. The proposal Debrecen and Balassa Colony the mayor of Fidesz does not like it either, and the mayor of Székesfehérvár, who was critical of similar measures of the previous government, supported the idea.
2024-10-30 18:53:00
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