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Hungary boasts a corporate profit tax rate of 9%, the lowest in the OECD. Apart from the standard 9% corporate profit tax regime, small and medium-sized corporations generating a maximum yearly turnover of 9 million EUR are eligible to operate under a preferential tax regime: no corporate profit tax and employer's social security tax (19%) is levied in this tax regime, instead a 13% tax is levied on employees' wages regardless of the profits realized. Hungary's flat personal income tax rate of 15% can be utilized by owners of corporations in certain tax optimization strategies. Furthermore, the country ranks 1st globally in foreign direct investment (FDI) to GDP ratio.
| Population | 9.8 million |
| Area | 93.000 km2 |
| Currency | forint |
| GDP per capita | 15.800 USD (2017, statista.com) |
| PPP GDP per capita | 26.700 USD (2016, World Bank) |
| GDP growth (2017) | 4% |
| GDP growth forecast | 4.4% (2018, OECD) 3.6% (2019, OECD) |
| public debt to GDP (2017) | 73% (tradingeconomics.com) |
| government budget balance (2017) | -2% |
| government budget deficit forecast | 2.6% (2018, OECD) 2.1% (2018, OECD) 1.8% (2019, Hungarian Government) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology economic complexity country ranking (2016) | 15th |
| export volume (2017) | ca. 120 billion USD (KSH) |
| major exports (2017) | cars, vehicle parts, spark-ignition engines (18.6%, MIT) |
| top export destination (2017) | Germany (28%, MIT) |
| current account balance as a share of GDP (2017) | 3.60% |
| foreign direct investment to GDP | 55.5% (2016, World Bank), the highest rate worldwide |
| government bond 10y (June 2018) | 3% |
| credit rating (S&P) | BBB- positive outlook |
| unemployment rate (2018) | 3.8% (tradingeconomics.com) |
| national minimum salary | gross 510 USD |
| average national wage (2017) | Gross 1200 USD (KSH), net 800 USD after tax |
| average wage in the capital (2017) | gross 1400 USD (estimate), net 930 USD after tax |
| wage growth (2017) | 11% |
| government forecast of the wage growth | 10% (2018), 8.8% (2019) |
- Budapest is the European Union’s 9th largest city with 1.8 million inhabitants; the EU statistical region of Budapest (Central-Hungary) has a population of 2.9 million.
- The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Report (2017) ranked Budapest to the 36th place on the list of the world’s most liveable cities
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Central-Hungary ranked
- 97th by nominal GDP output (similar to regions of Luxemburg and South Denmark)
- 38th by Purchasing Power Standards
- 87th by PPS per capita
- Budapest ranked 70th on the Global Financial Centres Index (2017)
- Hungary is second only to Iceland when it comes to per capita thermal water quantity; there are 125 thermal springs in Budapest and the city is home to 11 thermal baths
- according to the Innovation Cities Index 2016-2017 Budapest ranked 71th, next to Kyoto and Taipei
- 5% of Budapest’s workforce is employed at Shared Service Centers operated by companies like GE, Morgan Stanley, Vodafone, British Petroleum, British Telecom, Tata, Alcoa.
