General information
Green tax information
In the case of advertising print paper, charging of the green tax is tied to a statement of the customer, while in the case of packaging and office paper, there is no option for making a statement regarding the green tax. Our company has an obligation to charge and file this.
- In the case of products for which there isn’t an obligation to pay green tax, no green tax will be charged.
- The green tax is 85 HUF/kgs + VAT for advertising print paper. We charge a “packaging material” green tax for different packagings, boxes, self-adhesive labels, CD and DVD cases, digipacks, and “office paper” tax for products that will later written/printed on, or filled out - these can be register forms, notebooks, notepads, transfer sheets, planners, calendars and folders which have less than 50% advertising.
Tax information
VAT rates are set by the CXXVII of 2007 on Value Added Tax (VAT). The rate for printing products is generally 27%. There is an exception for those listed below, which have a rate of 5%.
- Books (VTSZ: 4901, 4903)
- Daily newspaper (released at least 4 times a week)
- Magazine (released at least once a year, VTSZ: 4902)
- Sheet music (VTSZ: 4904)
Mandatory copy
According to the 717/2020. (XII.30.) governemnt decree, printing houses are required to provide a mandatory copy, in the manner detailed below:
6 + 1 copies for the National Széchenyi Library, 1 copy for city library with county-level authority, and one for the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library)
- printed book, textbook, exercise book, and the first and every consecutive edition of pamphlets with 16 or more pages. (i.e 2. publication, 4. expanded edition, etc.)
- Periodical publications, such as newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, publications released periodically by conferences, periodically released data and title directories, bibliographies, repetitoriums, etc., other publications released periodically (reports, announcements, study collections, anthologies, etc.), series, publications with replacement sheets
- printed maps, atlases, globes
- sheet music, pieces of music
2 copies must be provided (2 copies for the National Széchenyi Library)
- printed book, textbook, exercise book, and the reprint of pamphlets with 16 or more pages if it’s under the same ISBN as the original, but has a different date of release/printing
- different edition of a printed publication (different language, different binding, different cover, collector’s edition, etc.)
- printed publication with an international identification number, with a maximum of 50 copies
- print on demand
- those short publications (shorter than 16 pages) which belong to types approved by the minister of culture, listed in attachment number 2
The cost of providing these mandatory copies is always added to the cost of the order itself.