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The renewal of Ügyfélkapu+ may make it impossible for accountants to manage the tax affairs of companies

The Association of Certified Accountants formulated development proposals regarding the introduction of Customer Gate+ so that the new two-factor identification does not paralyze the tax administration of businesses. The goal is to create a solution that ensures smooth

processing of taxation and does not impose an excessive burden on companies.

State services available through the Customer Portal will no longer be sufficient for a username and password pair, but will require either the new Digital Citizenship Platform (DÁP) mobile application or some external identification service that works on a smartphone. It will be a significant administrative burden if, during a vacation or illness, each accountant has to be added separately to the clients in the client portal, and the offices can play chess in work organization based on who can access which company's returns. "An accounting firm works with dozens of clients. It takes a lot of time and costs to constantly coordinate with clients when which accountant has access to which company. It would be much more reasonable and safer if businesses could entrust accounting offices to take care of

their affairs, and their active employees could access digital office affairs," István Harkai, president of the Association of Certified Accountants (MINKE), summarized their proposals.

Progress has been made in several areas in recent months. However, two-factor identification is still a challenge for accounting firms, the separation of office and private devices is not resolved. When it comes to accountants, most people think of tax returns submitted to the NAV, even though they help companies operate in many different areas. They manage the company portal, local government matters, local taxes, official correspondence is handled in

an e-paper system, they deal with matters related to the State Treasury, they provide data services to the KSH, a significant number of companies have food safety (NÉBIH) and waste, EPR fees (MOHU) related matters. Accountants must be given more than fifteen different authorizations for full-scale administration. There are cases when authorization does not even work: today, an accountant cannot enter the online case assistant system of individual

businesses with a regular mandate. Solution options In the case of accounting offices operating as businesses, it would be a simple solution if the tax returns of the principals could be submitted through the company gate of the accounting offices. Thus, businesses

would only have to entrust the accounting office once. This would not solve the situation of accounting offices operating as sole proprietors, they do not have company gates. In addition, the company gate can only be used after entering as an individual. In the long term, the best solution would be to create a special company gate access for accounting firms, regardless of their legal status. This should be supplemented with an authorization document, with which entrepreneurs could grant and revoke the authorization given to accounting offices for each office. If this were to be realized, the more secure customer portal would make administration easier and faster, simplifying the life of entrepreneurs and reducing administrative burdens.

Source: Association of Certified Accountants (MINKE)