Hungary’s tax authority APEH has changed its online property tax calculator after the data-protection ombudsman complained that estimating the value of a property involved providing personal data.
From now on, users of the property-tax calculator need only give their personal data voluntarily.
Data-protection ombudsman Andras Jori said it should be possible for anybody to get information on their property-tax payment obligation without recording of personal data.
A new residential property tax was introduced in Hungary on January 1.
