Uber bows out with free drives for loyal passengers

Uber wants to gift its 10 thousand most loyal Hungarian passengers free rides. According to origo.hu, the bonus trips can be validated in the 21 European countries where Uber works. They suggest that the still active users of Uber should check their incoming emails.

‘Goodbye Budapest’ writes Uber in its advertisement, after it was declared last week that Uber leaves Hungary at noon on the 24^th of July. The Ministry of National Development and other frontbenchers reacted to the announcement about the suspense of Uber’s service. However, the startup thinks that these reactions contain a lot of inaccuracies, so they answered with an official announcement.

Uber Hungary Kft. called attention to the fact that they paid 25 million forints of taxes in 2015 as an enterprise registered in Hungary and functioning according to the operative Hungarian laws. In proportion of income: this amount is way more than what taxi firms, having billion forints income, pay.

Uber’s partners all have passenger service permissions, as it is an obligatory requirement for the usage of the Uber platform. All drivers spent about 200 thousand forints on the permissions, which meant an income for the state of hundreds of millions. The permissions were engrossed by the National Transport Authority, who engrosses the taxi permissions as well.

Uber had 1200 drivers and 160 thousand users. Uber functions until the 24^th of July in Budapest, Budaörs, Budakeszi, Nagykovácsi, Solymár, Pilisszentiván, Pilisvörösvár, Pomáz, Pilisborosjenő, Üröm, Páty, Telki, Gyál and Dunaharaszti.