Budapest plans to launch phone call tax in July, paper says

Bloomberg News, citing a report in the Welt newspaper, says that the government of Hungary is planning to introduce a new ‘minute-based’ tax on telephone calls from July 2012, as it looks to raise up to USD225 million for state coffers. The move follows a previously implemented controversial sales tax on domestic telecoms operators which was challenged by the European Commission (EC). Under the new plan, phone calls from a fixed or mobile number would be taxed at HUF2 (USD0.01) per minute, while a similar levy would be applied to mobile SMS.

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OVETEL Budapest plans to launch phone call tax in July, paper says