Because Hungarian government agencies are always just a few weeks away from announcing some type of goofy public relations contest, the national tax office APEH announced that it was planning to organize a children’s story and comic-writing competition where inspectors, collectors and even the office’s leaders can enter, fn.hu reports. The creations will later be used in a tax awareness campaign aimed at kindergartners and elementary school kids, apparently to get to them before they realize that no one in Hungary properly pays their taxes. But then things hit a bump in the road, or this being Hungary, a pothole.
As the original article reveals, although APEH has had this competition in the planning stages for a while, they don’t have the funds to pay for it, because the government reduced their operating costs, no doubt because not enough people are willing to pay Hungary’s insane tax rates. Consequently, APEH’s press department decided to draw the images themselves without opening the competition to the public, with the in-house winner receiving a week-long vacation to one of the company’s own resorts. And we were all ready to submit the cartoon above as our own entry…