András Domány

The municipalities, as well as their institutions and companies, cannot raise their rates next year either.

Shortly after the government banned increasing local taxes, introducing new ones, and reducing current benefits, a government decree late Friday would further limit the management autonomy of municipalities.

In accordance with this, local governments, as well as their institutions and companies, will not be able to increase the rates set for the services they provide, their activities, the rates derived from the management of municipal assets or other obligations to pay rates in 2021 , nor extend them to new obligations. neither can they introduce a new tariff. With this, again, the local government decrees that have already been adopted and promulgated will be overwritten by a government decree, to which the capital VII. Regarding the tax increase, the autonomous district government stated:

Despite the ban, they maintain their already decided tax increase and await the resolution of the Palace and the Constitutional Court.

The new prohibition does not apply only if the municipality has determined the amount of the rate increase in a “quantifiable” manner in a contract concluded for a period of at least two years or for an indefinite period, or if the rate increase is decided before October 31st.

This legislation, as it is customarily adopted with reference to the epidemic threat, will end with its expiration on February 8, but its content will cover the entire year 2021.

Under another new regulation, at the request of the tenant, the lease of all state and municipal or other local apartments must be extended until the end of the emergency, after which no rent increase is prohibited for 90 days. The reductions, on the other hand, are unrestricted, even if the tenant does not initiate them, and this does not constitute a violation of the law governing the responsible management of national property.



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