Hungarian gov't mulls cutting VAT on online services - paper

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Basic Internet package at preferential rates, VAT lowered to 18% and free WiFi on every settlement - these are the Hungarian government’s latest plans to promote the use of the Internet, Magyar Idők (Hungarian Times) reported on Wednesday.
On top of the above the cabinet is also expected to create legislation on net neutrality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
and conceive a strategy on digital public education. In scope of the latter there could be infrastructural developments in education, which would not be such a bad idea in consideration of investment activity in this area.

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Additional plans:
  • cyber bullying would be a criminal offence
  • tax benefits for Hungarian startups
  • in order to increase the security of online payment and trade a list of offending businesses would be made public
  • a virtual customer service operating 24/7 would be set up on magyarorszag.hu for online administration
  • the use of open source, free software would be more widespread in public administration
  • the cabinet would make efforts to eliminate the tax evasive practices applied by certain multinational online businesses
 

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