The Hungarian government has told the country’s Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) to immediately launch an investigation into the activities of the national commercial broadcaster RTL Klub.
Quoting Mihály Varga, the nation economy minister, BBJ reports that this has been done in order to determine if the station made a “fictive transaction” “over recent years” aimed at averting taxation.
The move follows a request by the parliamentary group of the governing Fidesz party.
RTL Klub, which is Hungary’s leading broadcaster, has been at the centre of a controversial ad tax that came into effect earlier this month.
Although its burden was lightened for the first year of the new tax, it claims to have been unfairly singled out by the government.