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Hungary cuts restaurant VAT to 18%

  • Jan 22, 2017 | Richard Asquith

Hungary cuts restaurant VAT to 18%

Hungary reduced the VAT rate on restaurant services, excluding alcoholic beverages from the standard 27% VAT rate to the 18% reduced rate.

The change came into place on 1 January 2017.

There is a proposal to reduce this to 5% from 1 January 2018.


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Richard Asquith
VP Global Indirect Tax Richard Asquith
Richard Asquith is the former VP Global Indirect Tax at Avalara