Over the past year and a half, tax authority APEH has registered failures of payments against 2.5 million citizens, 776,000 of which were from this past year, reports napi.hu (subscriber only). Over a million citizens will receive notices that they owe taxes, as this was the number of cases where APEH found discrepancies in payments. The previous year, only 980,000 notices were mailed.
This year also marks the first time when private individuals will be sent notices. Following an integration procedure, APEH can now monitor past-due debts for the entire country, not just separately by county. Therefore, if someone was past due before in a different county, this can now be contrasted with current failures to pay.
However, the paper added that integration by the tax authority is imperfect, and that APEH is capable of making mistakes themselves.