Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Replacement of Hungary's prior progressive personal-income-tax schedule (17% and 32% brackets) with a single flat 16% rate applied to a 'super-gross' base (gross income plus a 27% employer-social- contribution adjustment) from 1 January 2011, simplified to the standard gross base by 2013. Rate cut to 15% from 1 January 2016 and maintained thereafter — the EU's joint-lowest flat PIT alongside Bulgaria. Coupled with expansion of the family-tax allowance (családi kedvezmény) providing per-child deductions (higher for three-or-more-child families), the 'under-30 mother' lifetime PIT exemption from January 2023, the 'young under-25' PIT exemption from January 2022, and the permanent PIT exemption for mothers of four or more children from January 2020. Progressive content of the system delivered through targeted family-status allowances rather than rate structure.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.