Sustainable Tax and Legal Services

The excise regulations require strict compliance and administration, including licensing and reporting obligations. This leads to companies often struggling with inefficient or inaccurate compliance processes and under- or overpaying excise duties. 

PwC can assist you with identifying risk areas and solving the underlying problems, implementing an integrated excise compliance system (including obtaining the necessary licences) and potentially recover overpayments.

PwC Hungary’s experts can provide clients with all relevant information about other environmental taxes, such as the environmental load charge, vehicle-related taxes (including registration tax), forestry fund duty, charge on water extraction and mining royalty.

We provide services for various industries aligned with the Hungarian statutory requirements on the basis of books kept in accordance with other international standards with focus on ESG. Preparing ESG compliance management reports and the statistical statements requested.
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PwC Hungary's specialised technology team, can help you automate your business processes. We can conduct a comprehensive technological review of tax and accounting functions to help your company standardise your processes and  prepare your ESG-related reports in the most secure and automated manner. 
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Both paper-based and elctronic documents may be archived electronically. If your company intends to introduce an e-archiving method in line with local regulations, PwC Hungary's specialzed team is at your disposal.

Responsible data asset management, and transparent and lawful processing of personal data are value measures of ethical corporate operations, in which errors and shortcomings could lead not only to legal and financial risks but often to reputational damage that may only be remedied by hard work. At the same time, stable, process-driven personal data processing and data asset management supported by appropriate controls increase the efficiency of corporate operations and may become one of the cornerstones of product and service development. PwC and PWC Legal’s information security, legal and business advisors provide comprehensive assistance in establishing, maintaining, and exploiting data asset management capabilities.

The liability for the development of the ESG system unequivocally lies with the given management. It is therefore of great importance that the management become aware of all the related rules and best practices, and juxtaposes them with the company’s purposes as well as its financial and social environment. We provide assistance in such processes of high complexity.

Real property owners and real property operators as profit-making power plant operators? Solar power plant panels are installed on the roofs of an increasing number of industrial and commercial properties. These panels qualify as a power plant above household volume and therefore, besides a permit from the competent building authority, also require a permit issued by the competent energy office. PwC Hungary provideds assistance in the development of the best-suited business model, whereas PwC Legal may assist you in answering regulatory questions and concluding investment / construction and operation contracts.

Green is undoubtedly the color of the decade. Companies will exhibit their environmental and sustainability aspirations to consumers and their business partners in competition with one another, in other words, "wash their image green". In B2C and B2B marketing communications of this type, it is essential that environmental claims are substantiated in order to avoid misleading the recipients. PwC Legal has extensive experience in both preliminary compliance assessments of communications and campaigns and litigation and regulatory proceedings.

The Hungarian waste management system is facing a significant transformation. The introduction of circular waste management will shape the reform of the regulatory environment. How will the obligations of the actors in the waste value chain change? What opportunities will the new approach and changed environment create for businesses? With decades of experience, PwC Legal provides legal advice on such matters.

The acquisition of emission units and the acquisition of free emmission units are becoming increasingly prominent as the financial stakes are rising. Paralelly, both the EU and domestic regulatory environments are undergoing constant evolution. We represent our clients in proceedings before authorities, legal disputes, and regulatory matters as well.

Environment protection and environment protection certification criteria are gaining more and more attention in real estate investments and developments. Numerous developments expressly serve environment protection or sustainability purposes. We provide comprehensive assistance to our clients in all the related legal aspects (legal feasibility studies, legal due diligence investigations, implementation-related legal documentation).