In the Ternopil region local budgets grow,but there are still plenty of reserves for their future expansion – expert
Ternopil region on growth rates of actual income of the General Fund - in the first place in Ukraine. Comparative indicator (January-June 2017 January-June 2016) shows, Ternopil oblast "increased" nearly 47%. For six months, local governments have increased their revenues by 22 billion UAH, in comparison with data of the same period last year. For the period in the General Fund of local budgets received UAH 87 billion, accounting for 53.6% of annual revenues approved by local councils. The highest percentage implementation of the annual indicators in Rivne (61,5%), Poltava (58,2%), Volyn (58,0%), Kyiv (58,0%), Chernivtsi (57,9%), Ivano-Frankivsk (57,2%). All 12 areas of the % completed is higher than the average for Ukraine, informs decentralization.gov.ua. The main factor for the increase in receipts in local budgets, the experts called financial decentralization. According to them, in 2015, and it was then entered into the rule of fiscal decentralization, local budgets grow every year. "On all taxes provided the revenue growth. In addition, the advantage of fiscal decentralization is that we are seeing improvement in planning on the ground. This means that slowly we come to the real definition of planned targets on the ground, not in the deliberately understated, then to demonstrate growth, as it was inherent in the Soviet system of government. Actually it and dismantle implementing reform. Those local governments that are active participants in the reform, already clearly realize that information about real financial resource enables the efficient distribution of the directions, to take into account the priorities identified by the territory development strategy, and form development budget", - said Galina Markovich, coordinator of the direction "Local budgets" Project office sector decentralization. Higher rates of income growth and demonstrated the combined budgets of territorial communities (GSS): +1.2 billion UAH. The growth amounted to 143.1%. And in some taxes more: the tax to incomes of physical persons is the increase of 152.6%, single tax – of 157.2%, excise tax on retail trade of 119.3%, land – 118,6 percent. Galina Markovich noted the improvement in the structure of local costs. According to her, the increased costs associated with the performance of local authorities ' own powers. "The cost of housing and utilities, roads in the current year against the previous year grew by almost a third. Increased capital expenditure. This year the development budget of local budgets formed in the amount of 34 billion UAH. whereas in the past it amounted to 19.9 billion UAH", - informed the expert. She also noted and increasing state support of development of regions. In 2017 - UAH 12.7 billion. The expert stressed that, despite these results, local authorities still have not enough reserves to raise additional revenues to local budgets. As an example, she mentioned the need for inventory and the normative monetary assessment of land. This is the basis of taxation of land rent and the basis for determining the rent, and its absence has a negative impact on revenues of the local budget. "The vast majority of local councils do not fully inventoried earth, in some - not held at all. A normative monetary evaluation of land held by the average for 30-50% of agricultural land, which is rented," said Galina Markovich. Even among the reserves to raise additional revenues to local budgets, the expert called the adoption of measures to legalize the payment of wages, revision of incentives provided by local authorities, the formation of an optimal network of public sector institutions, reducing tax debt. As 01.05.2017, the volume of tax debt to local budgets amounted to UAH 6.6 billion, including the tax to incomes of physical persons – UAH 1.2 billion, a payment for the earth – 3.8 billion. According to Galina Markovich, should pay attention to the issues of the optimal number of apparatus of the local Council and its Executive Committee. "Analysis staffing management bodies of the unified territorial communities showed that not all cases in the formation of staffing levels was taken into account the functional load on workers. As a result, individual communities on the costs of remuneration of managerial personnel receive up to 30% of budget revenues," - said the expert. Separately, she noted the issue of preventing of violations of financial-budgetary discipline in the use of budgetary funds. According to Deramciclane in And quarter of this the revealed violations in the amount of 0.12 billion UAH. According to experts, the expansion of the tax base, attract additional revenues to local budgets and optimizing expenditures under full fiscal autonomy in making decisions regarding the allocation of resources budget and responsibility for decisions will enable local authorities to continue to provide a comprehensive solution to the development of their territories. This was reported in the Ternopil regional state administration.Ïåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
