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Interpreting the latest cry for help from the struggling Hungarian bus companies, the Viktor Orban The leaders of the Economic Relaunch Action Group established by the Ministry of Transport and Communications were approached by two representative interest groups of passenger transport by special bus, NiT Hungary and the National Association of Private Entrepreneurs of the Transport Industry (MNFI) .
The letter states that in an open letter on March 25, Viktor Orbán was informed of the extraordinary involvement of domestic passenger transport by bus regarding the consequences of the epidemic. After that, their organizations submitted their proposals in many ways, including through the Chamber of Industry, to save and support the bus profession. As they write, the baseline situation did not change in the second wave either: the tourism segment is the biggest victim of the economic consequences of the epidemic.
While we find that among the many service providers involved in tourism, the government struggles to take economic protection measures to survive, the occasional bus transportation that provides tourist mobility has been left without substantial support. Of course, we welcome and welcome the abolition of the market surveillance fee this year, but the sector needs more support, such as the tourism sector, hospitality and tour operators.
They write.
They add that small and medium-sized passenger bus companies have ceased to exist, with the exception of some worker transports. The high-value buses, mostly loaded with credit, have been out of service since the beginning of the year, their temporary retirement option provided by current legislation will soon be exhausted and the fleet that is back in service will suffer irreparable deterioration.
Representatives of the sector that are still standing are at the height of their latest reservations. Until the expiration of the extended credit moratorium, the international start-up of the tourism sector is not expected, so a massive crisis is expected from mid-2021 among service providers that cannot extract credit coverage, they say.
To avoid this, the following proposals are addressed to the government:
- reduction of the value added tax of the special domestic passenger service to 5%;
- an optional extension of the credit moratorium until 2021, with rapid promulgation of terms;
- extend the duration of wage support for job creation for registered job seekers without changing conditions;
- the extension of the 50% wage subsidy introduced from November 2020 to bus and coach companies whose turnover has decreased by at least 30% compared to the base year 2019;
- the automatic extension of the possibility of temporary withdrawal from the market until the end of 2021 and the introduction of online administration for companies;
- the transfer of annual road use rights for 2020 to 2021;
- the reintroduction of driver training (C, D, E) in the OKJ system, the acquisition of higher level qualifications funded by the state for bus drivers;
- the possibility of suspending hull insurance, introducing a reduced value hull modality for buses temporarily withdrawn from service and reviewing the mandatory motor liability insurance system due to unrealistically high premium offers,
- abolition of the Artisjus awards from April 2020 to the end of 2021.
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