Closing down a self-employed status

What

If you are self-employed you can close down your business anytime. You can do in two ways:

•  in person in any government window (kormányablak),
• online in the electronic administration system using Client Gate (ügyfélkapu).

Good to know

For information in English about the Hungarian administration system (government offices, government windows, allowances, etc.) you can call the governmental helpline, what you can find under “Everyday life – Governmental helpline” on this link: http://hu.danubecompass.org/archives/situations/governmental-helpline. If you are calling from Hungary call this number: 1818, if you are calling from abroad call this number: +36 (1) 550-1858.

Steps

STEP 1: If you want to close down your self-employed status you cannot have an ongoing tax issue with the Tax and Custom Administration and you cannot be subject of any process which was launched by the National Tax and Custom Administration.

STEP 2: You have to announce the closing down online or in person. On the day you announce your intention to close down your business you cannot do that activity anymore.

STEP 3: You receive a notification about your announcement was registered in the system. The process is successful if the announcement was registered.

Where

You can close down your self-employed status online by using the Client Gate (http://hu.danubecompass.org/archives/situations/obtaining-digital-certificates-for-business) or in person in any government window.

• online: in the administration system by using Client Gate (in Hungarian): https://ugyfelkapu.magyarorszag.hu/
• in person: in any government window, on this link you can search for the nearest office (in Hungarian): http://www.nyilvantarto.hu/hu/oik.