"The website atlatszo.hu which is an independent watchdog NGO to promote freedom of information and transparency in Hungary came out with a detailed study on the Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) corrupt practices assisted by officials within the tax authority.
The study was written by András Horváth, a tax inspector who just left the service after 14 years employment and submitted recently a report to Hungary’s Chief Prosecutor, backing his statement with documentary proof. According to his statement, corruption at governmental level makes large scale VAT (value added tax) fraud possible, at least 1000 to 1700 billion HUF yearly, depriving the public budget of huge revenue, estimated to be 5 to 6 % of the GDP.
He states that since 2007 the illegal evade and reimbursement of VAT is a practice of highly organized criminal groups in close relations with the state administration, whatever the governor party was.
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First he disclosed the details at a press conference in Budapest, (8th November ) organized by the Clean Air Action Group, the Association for the Protection of Interest of Enterprises and Atlatszo.hu Nonprofit Ltd.
Afterwards they also organized an open forum (21st November ) together with the young activists of Students Network HaHa. The original place of the event would had been the room A047 of the ELTE University by the Dean of ELTE, Tamás Dezső forbade the forum, that took finally place in an event room, called Versailles, near to Heroes square.
