The European Court of Justice has ruled on the Hungarian Government in special tax cases against Tesco and Vodafone

The European Court of Justice has ruled in two special tax cases in Hungary, in the special retail and telecommunications tax cases in force between 2010 and 2012.

In one case, Tesco and in another Vodafone sued the Hungarian State for unjustifiably discriminating foreign-owned companies against domestic-owned competitors, contrary to EU law. In fact, about 95% of all taxes were paid by foreign-owned enterprises, which deprived a substantial part or even of the profits of a given year, while their domestic competitors paid a negligible amount of tax.