(13 Jul 2022)
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Budapest - 14 July 2022
1. Pan of protest outside parliament
2. Protesters walking the streets
3. Protesters walking
4. Pan of crowd of protesters, some chanting against Fidesz, the ruling party in Hungary
5. Crowd of protesters shouting, applauding
6. Tilt down of protest outside parliament
7. Protest moving in the streets
8. Tilt down from bridge to protesters blocking roads
9. Protesters chanting (Hungarian) Filthy Fidesz
10. Protesters blocking police car from passing, police car reverses away
11. Pan from police car to street blockade
STORYLINE:
Protesters in Hungary's capital blocked main traffic arteries for the second day in a row on Wednesday in opposition to a tax overhaul pushed through this week by lawmakers from the country's right-wing governing party.
Several thousand demonstrators, many of them independent entrepreneurs affected by the new changes, gathered in a main square beside Hungary's parliament to protest a law passed Tuesday which many fear will result in significant tax hikes.
Following the conclusion of the official demonstration, most of those gathered marched through central Budapest during peak traffic despite orders from police to stay off the roads.
Hungary's ruling Fidesz party, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, used its parliamentary supermajority to pass the new law on Tuesday which targets a popular tax scheme which allows small businesses and individual contractors to pay a low flat tax rate.
Estimates suggest that up to half a million workers in Hungary use the tax scheme known as KATA, which allows independent contractors like hairdressers, designers, freelance journalists and others to work for multiple clients at a favourable tax rate.
But Hungary's government says that many companies have abused the system by contracting workers rather than employing them, thus depriving the country's budget of between two and three billion Hungarian forints ($4.9-$7.4 billion) in tax revenues annually.
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