Communicated on 18 April 2016

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 36642/14 M.A . against Hungary lodged on 12 May 2014

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

In application of Act nos. XC of 2010, CXXIV of 2010 and CCL of 2013, the upper bracket of the severance payment due to the applicant – a civil servant who had been dismissed from a government o ffice – was taxed at the special rate of 75%. The amount concerned was 2,177,963 Hungarian forints. The applicant complains under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 about the measure which in his view was nothing else but disguised and un j ustified deprivation of possession. He also argues that Article 14 of the Convention read in conjunction Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 was violated because only those dismissed from the public sector are subjected to the tax.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicant ’ s right to the peaceful enjoyment of his possession within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, read alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis , N.K.M. v. Hungary , no. 66529/11 , §§ 42 to 45 and §§ 65 to 76, 14 May 2013)?