Government to defend ad tax in Brussels

The government is ready to stand up for Hungary’s tax on adverts in Brussels if it comes to it, the government’s spokeswoman said this week. Éva Kurucz, reacting to a report in Népszabadság daily that the RTL Group had lodged an official complaint with the European Commission over the tax, said the cabinet was prepared to defend the levy in the same way it had defended the banking tax and cuts to utility prices. It is not the first time that “certain economic players” had exerted pressure on the government, and everyone should take their fair share of the public burden, she said.