Hungary’s tax cut for having 4 kids

HUNGARIAN women who have four or more children will be exempt from income tax for the rest of their lives, says the country’s leader.

Right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban said the proposal would increase the nation’s birth rate and make it less dependent on immigration. The population is falling by 32,000 a year and Hungarian women have fewer children than the EU average.

Mr Orban, elected to a third consecutive term in April, has made ‘zero tolerance’ of immigration a central aim. His nationalist party especially opposes Muslim immigration.

He said the West’s answer to falling birth rates was immigration, but added: ‘We have a different way of thinking. Instead of just numbers, we want Hungarian children. Migration, for us, is surrender.’